However if you are considering moving a safe into a second or third floor apartment and that safe would have to ascend a set of wooden steps he would want to make sure that the step design is solid and the wood construction is in good condition.
1500 pound safe on second floor.
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If i round that comes out to a 6 square foot base and 600 lbs fully loaded which is about 100 sf.
That could be a slight problem if you were putting the safe in the middle of the room.
The important thing to remember about the safety factor is that it is spread over the entire floor from wall to wall not just on any given area of the floor.
After carefully calculating i pulled it up a staircase using a 2 10 as a ramp and a comealong to ratchet it up.
I just moved my 750 pound antique safe 24 x24 x36 for the second time.
So if i tell you that your floor can safely support 1000 pounds then that also means that your floor might theoretically fail when it receives a load of 1500 to 2000 pounds.
It has real pine wood floors.
You ll have a concentrated load of 103 pounds per square foot just where the safe is.
I recently purchased a cabelas woodsman liberty revere 23 gun safe and would like to put it on the second floor.
In his experience any stairs that can handle a pool table can handle a safe.
Your wife wants you to cancel the order she is afraid everything is going to tumble through.
This is because i had no plan at all.
There will be more than 40 psf under your safe but that s okay because you aren t filling your entire floor with safes.
Most homes have a safety factor of 40 psf pounds per square foot.
I wanted to turn a second floor bedroom into a gym.
My advice is to place the safe along a wall where the floor joists rest on the foundation wall a beam or a bearing wall.
I have an 800 pound free motion weight machine.
The base is angled in a wide v shape.
This is a wall in your house or apartment that was designed to support the weight of the floor wall ceiling or roof.
The footprint is 25 x 30 and it weights 485 lbs.
The first time it took 5 hours with a friend just to get it off the truck and into the house.
You are in a state of panic and ordered a 900 pound gun safe that measures 3 5 feet wide and 2 5 feet deep.
The house was built in 2014.