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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7571739, member: 105098&quot;]Might want to get that tapcon&#039;ed from the inside into the floor. 250 pounds is manageable for 2 people,&nbsp; easier than you&#039;d think actually. one run of the mill burglar, will have a tough time with it, a couple guys or one strong dude and the safe is gone in no time at all. </p><p><br /></p><p>I really like securing them to the slab from the inside of the safe so even if they get to it, it&#039;s not going anywhere unless the figure out how to release the fasteners from the inside or break the slab enough to release the studs. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;A different way would be to work in a large flat item like a steel plate to lay flat under the safe that you can get through the doorways sideways to place, then weld the safe to it, they can&#039;t get it up because they will be standing on the plate, even if they do figure out how to get it up, they won&#039;t get it through the doorways, and if they got the time I guess they&#039;d&nbsp; have to sit there and break the welds to go further. that&#039;s for floors that aren&#039;t all that rock solid let&#039;s say.</p><p><br /></p><p>You could fix the safe from the back to the studs in the wall, but I&#039;m not a fan of that unless you are sure it&#039;s not load bearing if someone went at it and tore up the wall. </p><p><br /></p><p>My opinion, consider the value of the items you will keep in it and either get a heavier safe, or figure out a way to make it a fixed safe in the building that would take a long time to remove it&#039; if it&#039;s light. Ideally, you&#039;d want it to be pushing 500 pounds or more on it. </p><p>an &quot;average&quot; adult man weighing 198 pounds with intermediate lifting experience can bench press about 135 pounds, deadlift 335 pounds, and squat 285 pounds. so 500 pounds limits it to a team of two or more. but at 250 pounds it will be difficult of course, but you&#039;d be surprised what one person could do with it with some determination, and it would be gone with 2 people no doubt in my mind.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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