Not sure where to put this, but I'm wanting to improve the security on my reloading room (finished basement room) and gun room. I do have a safe inside the room already that is anchored to a concrete floor. However, I do have a lot of stuff in there too that I don't want in the safe (ammo, powder) and valuables that won't fit.
Right now it just has a flimsy hollow-core door with a knob that locks from the inside only, like a bathroom door. I open it from the outside with an Allen wrench or anything pokey. It's just to keep the kids out and any nosy maintenance people that may be working down there etc.
Short of a vault door, what have you done, or could suggest? I'm thinking a solid core door, with a real lock and deadbolt, reinforced strike-plate with longer screws into the jamb. I know it could possibly still be breached, but it could maybe(?) be built to stop or at least slow down a determined thief. Right now my 7yo daughter can breach it if she tried. ??
Thanks in advance!
Right now it just has a flimsy hollow-core door with a knob that locks from the inside only, like a bathroom door. I open it from the outside with an Allen wrench or anything pokey. It's just to keep the kids out and any nosy maintenance people that may be working down there etc.
Short of a vault door, what have you done, or could suggest? I'm thinking a solid core door, with a real lock and deadbolt, reinforced strike-plate with longer screws into the jamb. I know it could possibly still be breached, but it could maybe(?) be built to stop or at least slow down a determined thief. Right now my 7yo daughter can breach it if she tried. ??
Thanks in advance!