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I don't think my better half would go for this in the basement.

Nathan Chesney (Hillbilly Customs)
There's a link to more images of it being built below.



Link to images of the vault being built.
http://hbrifles.com/nathans-blog/18

Nice - and wouldn't it be fun to fill that up with rifles:)

Sweet! I hope my next house has enough room for a vault.

Well, it's a little bigger than mine .....Wonder if it's big enough for gunnut308 or KDK's collection....

If I hung some on the ceiling it'd probly hold most of 'um Feller can't have too many toys.

See I told you....

While back I did some work for a guy that had over 300 long guns (high end stuff) and dang near enough pistols to fill a truck bed level full. He's a whitetail fanatic and hunts with 2 rifles, a Kimber Montana .270 wsm and a Rem 700 5R .308 win.

Poured concrete...sweet!

I think I could sell it too my wife as a tornado shelter. She is really skeerd of storms.

Concrete is always placed. You pour bourbon...

Naw, I can't even fill up one of the big Fort Knox's....





Yet....

Gee, gives me an idea for a spa....

Wayne,
BRILLIANT!!

Just make sure you can open it from the inside - in two different places, just for safety's sake, if you're usin' it for a shelter..

I didn't use the link so maybe this is addressed, but any structure like that may have some humidity issues - so the owner better make sure there's a dehumidifier working in there..

A guy here bought a very large old office type safe to put his guns in. It's even big in a garage at over 7' tall.

His wife is going to let him take the front porch off of the house and put the safe into their living room!

no re-bar? if not, that would be easier to get into than a regular safe. if it was mine there'd be a cage of 1" rebar all through that thing and the outside would be bricked.

Notes on how he built it says there's a bunch of rebar..

Correct. I've known Nate for 5-6 years now and when speaking with him it becomes quite clear he's not one for half-@ssing anything.

Two houses ago, when I was a bachelor and made ALL the rules , I actually built a vault in my basement. When I bought the house, it had an unfinished basement. My dad & I decided to build a concrete block vault in one corner. I took something like 8x12, and laid up block, and put in a steel framed steel door. We put rebar in the cells every now and then, and filled them with concrete. I put sheetrock on the joists as a ceiling, then a double layer of mesh, and another layer of sheetrock (more for fire protection if the house above burned). Then we meshed the walls and cut-nailed plywood to the interior over the mesh. If somebody took a sledge hammer to the walls, or even the part of exposed foundation from outside, they would have to pulverize a 4x8 area, then cut the mesh, and space it correctly to match the plywood sheet, before they could get in.

I built free standing A-frame racks in the middle, and racks around the walls.

To be extra secure, we bolted a small safe to the concrete floor inside the vault, to store handguns.

Stuck a dehumidifier in there, and never worried about my guns.

I can't tell you guys how much better I sleep at night after I put the vault in. I hated just going to camp for the weekend!! I was more worried about my customer rifles than my own. That would have been the one calls in the world, to tell a customer his gun got stolen out my shop.