Posted: 11/9/2008 1:37:05 PM EDT
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I am buying a gun safe in the weight range of 400 lbs. I don't have a lot of local help to get it into the house. Any suggestions? Has anyone hired out moving help to install a safe in their home?
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| I hired movers to install my safe. Got the name of the movers from the shop where I bought the safe. They had a lo-boy trailer and hydraulic hand fork lift, and they almost dropped the darn thing coming up the drive way. They also bolted it to the slab. I think my safe weight 800 + plus. It wasn't cheap ($200), but money well spent in my view––just considered it part of the cost of the safe. |
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Quoted: I moved my 750 lb'er twice with a fridge cart. I needed help getting it tipped but that was about it. for one that size, get a fridge cart and one buddy.. as long as its not going upstairs you will be fine if you do need to take it on stairs, just brace them with 2 2x4's and you will be fine |
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a refridgerator dolly and a friend or two would be more than enough for 400 lbs. I've moved my old 380 lbs safe a few times by myself before I went bigger.
I was kinda of stupid as it's a good way to pull a muscle if you're not carefull. $200 for moving is cheaper than a Dr.s bill and being out of work for a week or two or being injured permanently. 
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The place I bought my safe provides free in-home delivery within a certain distance, which I am in, so they brought it right out for me.
When I eventually move, I will get it out the same way they got it in, but in reverse - they used a standard dolly/handtruck from the truck to just in the door, then transferred to a castered (handleless) dolly platform to push it around inside into the room it needed to go into, then tilt it back and pull out the dolly and have two guys manuever it into final position. Really, the 400 lb jobbers aren't bad at all. I helped move a larger safe before; the hardest part is getting things started. Once you're rolling, things are easy. And at the end, you just set it down and slide/push it into its final position. |
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you may be able to rent a good hand truck aka dolley and move a 400 pounder yourself .or with 1 guy.
i would think the store will help you get it in your truck you may be able to unload with some ramps or somthing. hopefully you dont have stairs to deal with at your house |
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I am buying a gun safe in the weight range of 400 lbs. I don't have a lot of local help to get it into the house. Any suggestions? Has anyone hired out moving help to install a safe in their home? Thanks. If you can get a refrigerator dolly, I have moved a 600# range safe with the help of just one person (and one time that person was my wife). It helps to have someone there to help keep it from slipping as you tilt it back up on the dolly. If stairs are involved, move! Oh, and as said above ^, take the door off first. |
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I have paid 3 times to have my 900 pounder moved. there is no way I would attempt it, especially being that is was moved a couple times over turf and down hills.
ETA: the risk of injury is very high and usually any type of injury you will get from something that size is permenant. Let someone else hurt themselves. |
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Hahaha now I have to do it myself so I am not a pussy.  400 lbs. isn't bad. I had my wife help me get it up the 8" step into the house. Even sliding it out of the van wasn't bad. Just make sure you secure it down, they tend to slide when you hit the brakes.
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I moved mine in about 6 months ago. Weighs 800lbs. Moved with just me and my 110 lb wife. FIRST, 400 lbs is HEAVY, heavy enough to kill you if you get trapped under it, GET HELP. Don't injure yourself or die just because you want to MAN UP. Take off the door. It is very heavy. I used a basketball. Seriously. Deflate it and put it under the door. Inflate it slowly, door lifts right off hinges. Depending on the weight, 1 or 2 people can then put it on a dolly. Dolly it in the house. Install in reverse. Yes, you can take the door off and put it back on by hand, but do you really want a big ass scratch on your nice new safe? Again, brains over brawn. Next, Appliance dolly. With the door off, it will still be pretty heavy. I took the insulated panels out of mine also to make it lighter. Get it strapped on TIGHT. Use another strap if you have to. There is no where to grab on 3 sides of the safe so you want the dolly and safe to be one piece for the move. Go slowly. No use destroying the house, safe, yourself or your helper trying to rush. Measure openings and turns. Plan the best path. If you are putting this upstairs, CONSULT a contractor. Put it over a bearing wall. I have been building homes my entire career. I have built or overseen over 400 homes. I know residential construction. If you put the safe upstairs in the wrong place, It WILL damage your house and may actually come through the floor. 400 lbs turns into a LOT more with guns and ammo. I think that is all. BE CAREFUL. Good Luck. Did I say be careful? Use brains not balls. |
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The guys who delivered my Liberty used pieces of 4 or 6" heavy schedule PVC pipe in short sections. They rolled it on their like the Egyptians. It took them less than 5 minutes to get it from the door to where it needed to go along with a few 90 degree turns. It was slick as shit.
No getting caught on the carpet. No breaking the threshold or any of that jazz. |