jack010203 wrote:I am very close to getting a gun safe, and I am curious about the anchoring of the safe to the concrete foundation. I will have it lag bolted to some studs in the wall, but I have never dealt with drilling through concrete.
Is this some thing one person can do on there own?
I have carpet in the area that it will be installed, do I just drill through the carpet, or do I remove it, or do I just remove the sections for the bolts?
Anything else I should watch out for while drilling through the foundation?
Thanks
I didn't do it myself but watched the guys who delivered and installed my safe do it. So long as the carpet wasn't Berber(sp?), it would get a run in it from the drill, they just drilled right through the carpet into the foundation. Then they put in expanding bolts and were done. Looked pretty straight forward. After I watched how easy it was for those two guys to move a 600+ lb. safe, there was no doubt it needed to be bolted down.