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12/15/2025 7:58:07 PM EDT
I live in Wisconsin. The basement stairway has a 90° turn halfway down. The garage would definitely be easier to get a safe (RSC, actually) into. It's a bigass heated garage, however.

Yes or no in a (heated) garage?
12/15/2025 8:54:47 PM EDT
[#1]
For me it depends on humidity. Assuming a good, big safe that can't be moved, garage sounds fine.
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12/15/2025 9:07:42 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Dirtydog:
For me it depends on humidity. Assuming a good, big safe that can't be moved, garage sounds fine.
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Bolted down and covered/hidden and goldenrod type humidity control.
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12/15/2025 9:15:04 PM EDT
[#3]
Buddy of mine kept a butt load of machine guns in a heated garage in Illinois. It had a big home made safe he  welded up in place. He never had any problems.
12/16/2025 1:36:28 AM EDT
[#4]
Garage is fine. I kept one in the garage for a year. Only downside is that the bottom got some surface rust which transferred to the carpet in my next home. Rust comes out of carpets really easily though.
12/16/2025 8:05:18 AM EDT
[#5]
Well humidity is rarely an issue for a safe or guns in Arizona.  Garage works great bolted down and weighing 1000 pounds.

Now my guitars need to be kept humidified or problems emerge.
12/24/2025 11:37:05 AM EDT
[#6]
Just keep in mind how easy it would be to hook a chain to a safe and pull it out of place, even bolted down. So make that an issue potentially thieves will have to deal with.
12/24/2025 11:57:25 AM EDT
[#7]
I've had a safe in garage for 15 years without any issues. I keep some oddball stuff in it and use damprid in there as well as some extra oil on them if I don't mess with them much. Never had an issue.
12/24/2025 12:02:58 PM EDT
[#8]
When you put a gun safe in a garage you are inviting thieves into your home every time you open the garage door. Far more important than any metal box you store your guns in is NOT making yourself a target by advertising what you have. If you're going to put a gun safe in a garage, fill it with cinder blocks and hide your guns behind your old clothes in a downstairs closet. Maybe the thieves will waste so much time grabbing your "safe" that they don't look any further.
12/24/2025 5:32:37 PM EDT
[#9]
Lucky me my garage door isn't open often or for long.  Nor is there much traffic passing my house.  And my last line of defense is I have a large piece of cardboard laying across in front of the safe blocking easy view of it.  You are giving good advice.

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