A few ways to hide your collection

I'm always interested in viewing ways to hide things and came upon this.

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If anyone is going to make a bookcase into a "hideaway" make sure you stock the shelves with paperback romance novels.

Chris

 

More and more people are opting for a "safe room" in their home, but the one thing that many of them overlook is the need for a dedicated, underground power supply that is tamper-proof.

Chris

 

Maybe they have changed the codes, but I used underground power in Cape Coral when I designed the house we built in 1998. It seems to me that a disconnect could be mounted atop the pole.

Chris

 

Oh, right! The meter! But, how many burglars are going to smash it or cut through a 3" conduit? ZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!

Chris

 

They spent all that money building and designing safe rooms and dens, then allow pictures of how to access them to circulate the internet.
Do you suppose they leave keys in the locks and combination numbers nearby just to make the job easier for the thieves ?

 

just have a backup generator in your safe room.

 

A hide away room is worthless in my opnion. The ones that are most likely to steal from you are folks that you know. They will most likely find out about your "hidden" room. After all, how do you build it without your family and friends noticing it being built.

 

you have to build it in complete privacy. If you can afford to own a house before marriage build it then and do not let any friends over until it is done. Keep in mind security features when building a secret room. I should not lean on a bookcase and fall over revealing a secret room like shaggy does in scooby doo.

You need a high tech security system that will require a passcode to enter.

Of course you only need this sort of protection if you have a high $$$ amount of stuff worth hiding.

 

Thats why some of those had the vault door as well, Phil. I have two large safes and nobody, including my wife, has the combos for them. As far as power, and Doug can and will correct me if I'm mistaken, but when I was going to school for structural engineering, the law for accessing power only applied to certain voltages, such as those commonly found in household wiring. It did not, however, regulate voltages that were lower, such as phone lines. You can run a lot on very low voltage lines.

 

can you elaborate on what you mean by "run a lot on a very low voltage"

I'm very interested about this.

 

LED lighting can run on less than a volt. We have computers at work that run on essentially the equivalent of twelve volts, though whether something like that is available to the public I don't know. You don't need 120 to power every electronic made. But, the power companies need to make money, so you have little choice at home.

 

Okay! At this point the burglar should read the signs posted everywhere.......These premises protected by Smith & Wesson, Kalishnikov, Colt, Glock and a 28' pet anaconda.

Chris

 

Isn't it designed to be really simple to shut down the power so that first responders can do it quickly and easily (without even thinking) if needed?

 

That makes sense.

It seems to me...such a setup should be universal. Designed the same way on nearly all homes so the first responders can find it and shut it off fast if needed. On the other hand, that also seems like an excellent way for someone with nefarious intentions to disable electrical systems within a house (such as security systems). I wonder if that really happens all that often.