3 Types of Concealed Safes - How Do You Hide a Safe?

How do you hide a safe? Some hidden safes are designed as hidden safes. Wall safes and floor safes are the two best examples of that. But there are other after market products that hide safes too.

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Wall safes are a great as disguised hidden safes.They are built to go in between studs in standard 4" walls and can easily be covered by pictures or other wall art. They can be used as a hidden gun safe for pistols. And they are easy to install for a DIY hidden safe option.

Hidden floor safes are probably the best way to hide a safe. We've talked to many homeowners that have found floor safes in a home they have moved into, some years after moving in.

But, in new homes, you must plan to install a floor safe. New homes with post tension slabs cannot be excavated to install a hidden floor safe once the concrete has been poured. So they must be installed during construction.

In older homes, (pre-mid 1990) you can hide a safe in the floor by knocking out the concrete, placing the safe into the hole, and pouring new concrete around the now-hidden safe to secure it. Always check for post tension before installing a floor safe as a DIY hidden safe .

Lastly, American Security Safes (AMSEC) makes a safe cloak in order to conceal or hide a gun safe. Let's face it, there aren't a lot of options for a hidden gun safe and this is probably the best one. It creates a faux finish for the safe by overlaying a laminate sheet over the gun safe to make it look like a cabinet. It's not going to fool anyone standing next to the safe, but it will fool someone driving or walking by that looks into your garage when the garage door is open. They won't see a gun safe, it will be hidden, they'll see a cabinet.

[turkeybowlwinkle]

After I purchase a high security safe I realized that my most valuable possession was the safe.

[valerievallelunga]

This was very informative. We learned the value of a safe AFTER our house burned down several years ago! Fortunately, we survived - but we now have a fire proof safe from ACME that has all our important papers (just the right size for us). Your post reminded me that I need to update the safe contents with pictures & saved receipts for large purchases because those "Pesky" ( a polite term) Insurance Companies will not replace or reimburse anything from a disaster without a truck load of documentation.

[kooale]

Simply one of the best vids I've ever seen on YT, & I've watched a ton. THANKS!

[pureblood]

Cardboard box for smaller safes marked with a black sharpie "baby clothes" will always get overlooked. 👍

[duaneross]

I remember delivering a safe into a garage. Then he gutted out a Pepsi machine the safe fit into that gutted out Pepsi machine perfectly. Plus he locked the Pepsi machine door as well.

[chrisludwig]

I was installing carpeting in a house near Cleveland. In a closet by the front door, behind the fireplace a safe was mortared into the masonry of the fireplace about 4 ft off the floor. Very cool old safe.

[EnlightenedPatriot]

Wall safes CAN be made to hold much more than they were designed for, especially if you have a brick/stone/block-built house. My UK 30's-built one has nooks and crannies in various places. Rather than have "all my eggs in one basket", I decided on wall safes in multiple location but built some into a small, false, brick/breeze-block wall, with a decent cavity behind. A typical place would be behind the bottom of a staircase (if enclosed, not open to view), a foot or two away from the bottom corner.

Another place would be up in the loft/attic/roof-space, adjacent to a chimney stack, so it looks to be part of it. A bit of imagination is all that is needed. The back of the wall safe can then have a hole (round or square) cut into the back before the safe is cemented in. You now have a much larger safe still protected by the same door security it originally had. Your valuables can then be passed through into the cavity behind (remembering to make the hole big enough for a hand clutching larger objects and to remove sharp edges.)

Pick a hard-to-get-at location and disguise the wall with a decorative wood/painted/wall-papered panel, clutter, furniture, etc, to hide the safe front. An alcove in a room each side of a chimney breast could be bricked up part way for the safe/cavity, open shelves above, and a bed/furniture placed in front of the removable decoy wall covering. With my stash broken up and well hidden, I feel quite secure. I would never have one big, obvious safe on show where a brandished knife or gun threat can force its owner to open. I once bought a silver coin off someone on Ebay. He took me to his house in town and opened a massive safe in his living area to give it me! A very risky move I thought.

[edlauren]

Great video. Thank you for this information.

[andym]

Planning to put a safe in during construction is letting the entire construction crew know where you are putting the safe and that you will have valuables in the home once complete.

[nickthequick]

Always have at least two safes; one with few valuables in it that you "allow" burglars or home intruders to find easily and get away with, and one main, hidden safe.

[crushmash]

Lots of good advice thank you very much

[AdrianWeber]

Oh man that thing with the cabinet just made my day! The floor safe however is something that I ALWAYS wanted to have! Bad thing is... German houses are VERY well built and even though we have floors that are made of 20-30cm of pure concrete it is still not deep enough to but a floor safe in. The only way you are going to be able to install one of these here would be building a new house. Too bad... Great video! Best wishes, Adrian

[helltanner]

I got one of those shelf safes... installed the bolts into it. Bottom and back...I had several brick features in the house that were designed as toy boxes or blanket boxes...put the safe inside one...then poured cement around it...turned into an extremely secure hidden floor safe. Toys or blankets back on top...even if its found it will need 20 mins with a hammer and chisel to get out...its sitting in 50 pounds of cement. It is bonded to the main floor and solid brick with very little room to work.

[jimmyzhao]

The cloak for the safe was neat. They should make it look like a bunch of stacked cardboard boxes.

[Bobrogers]

Considering the cost of a floor safe, they could make it water tight. It wouldn't be hard to do.

[pacovl]

A wall safe behind a painting is like THE MOST cliché place to place a safe EVER!!! That’s literally the place you see a safe hidden 9 out of 10 times in a movie!!! 😁

[epicepidemic]

I thought I was here to solve a fun "Where's the safe?" mystery game. No mystery to these locations.

[pieterpuk]

What about a fairly obviously placed dummy safe? Like when you go to Brazil and you bring a dummy wallet with some limited cash and worthless store cards in it and a crappy broken phone to hand out if / when you get mugged. If you get burglarized or robbed, having a safe with some (relatively) cheap stuff in there could help give the criminals the sense that they have taken what you have to take and thus cues their getaway?

[ede-armond]

Based on the THUMBNAIL PHOTO, I was expecting to see some installations.

[AEvans]

If using a grounded safe, put your valuables in some plastic bags or other to protect them in case water does happen to get inside.
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