Have any of you ever thought of having a safe built into your home as its being constructed? If so do you have any suggestions I can give the builder, of course he has some ideas of his own, but I want to make this thing hidden and a HUGE pain in the ass to steal. It doesn't need to be huge, just something I can store cash, jewelery, documents and other valueable small items.

 

my parents had one installed in the concrete in their basement. the basement subsequently flooded which rusted the lock shut. now no one can get the shit outta there

 

That's good to know, sucks for them though!

 

I have a firesafe I am dropping in. I will probably put down a 4" layer of concrete with three or four 1/2" rhebar strips through it. Once it is mounted into the concrete (sunk) It will be fairly impossible to remove without a jackhammer and a spare hour or two. Part of installing a safe is putting it somewhere that someone could not easily tool it out of (deep closet corner, Under a stairwell). I am not a big fan of wallsafes nothing beats a well mounted floor safe.