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Best ways to hide vault room in the basement?

Shawn9106

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I’ve searched and looked on here so I tried to do due diligence if this is posted a lot. I am currently building my house, in the basement I’m doing a vault room with concrete and metal cased concrete for the roof. The room is 12.5 x 10.5. The entrance will be in a hall way the room in the other side will be a movie theatre type. What re cheap effective ways to hide the vault door?
 
I’ve searched and looked on here so I tried to do due diligence if this is posted a lot. I am currently building my house, in the basement I’m doing a vault room with concrete and metal cased concrete for the roof. The room is 12.5 x 10.5. The entrance will be in a hall way the room in the other side will be a movie theatre type. What re cheap effective ways to hide the vault door?
Depends; what’s in the vault? Care to show pictures?
 
and a dummy-safe, somewhere else, that you acci-purposely forgot that you left open.

crap jewelry in there, maybe a Zimbabwe'an bazillion dollar bill or two... print out some 'Bearer Bonds'....

Hypothetically speaking, of course. Some things that look like 'pot gummies' that aren't.....
 
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Please give us grid coordinates to your new home so we can come evaluate….
Kidding, but seriously, as the old saying goes “loose lips sink ships.” I’ve helped build a few in custom homes we’ve built, and it really isn’t hard to come up with an idea, but I’ve not seen a cheap way as you’ve suggested.
 
Putting the door to the false room in the back of a closet makes it tougher to see. Leaving some power tools and other heavy pawnable garbage out helps. Most thieves steal an armload of tools or treasure and flee.

Having a bowl of change and petty cash by the door is a nice way to detect intruders. They will pocket that instantly.

I couple of spare tarps, Gorilla tape, kitty litter, peroxide and bleach are handy for clean up. Burglars can be messy.