How to install a Wall Safe

http://www.deansafe.com/wall-safes.html Mary shows up how to Install a hidden Wall Safe in a closet wall. we used a DOJ approved Wall Safe from VLine. Great way to hide a pistol or drugs from the kids. For this and other wall safes go to http://www.deansafe.com/wall-safes.html

Hi, my name is Mary, and I am with V-line Industries, and today we are going to show you how to install the V-line quick vault in the wall. Okay, the first thing we have to do is find out where our studs are. You also want to make sure there is no electrical, or plumbing behind your wall.

There are two ways to do that, we can use a studfinder, which you can get at any hardware store, and that just lines up, and when you have a stud, the lights light up. Or, if you do not want to buy a stud finder, and you do not have one you just tap on the wall, and you can hear the difference between where the stud is, and where it is not.

And once you locate your studs, you want to mark them and that is where we are going to cut our hole, in between those two studs. Okay, so we have our drywall knife, you can use other knives, other tools we chose the drywall knife, so basically, you take your knife, and just poke your hole in the wall. Once you get through, you are just going to cut your hole out.

We just cut a small hole, so that we can double check and make sure that we do not have any electrical or plumbing back here. We did find one little cable wire, so we took Our coat hanger apart, and slid that down in here, and just double checked that we are lined up with our stud here, and with our stud on this side, our little cable wire is not going to be a big deal, we are just going to push that out of the way, and we are already, now, to make our hole bigger, so we can slide our safe in.

We have our hole all cut, we are going to just clean up this edge a little bit, and we are going to be ready to put our safe in the wall. Okay, we have our hole all cut and now we are ready to put our vault in the wall. So, we just slide it in our hole, and then open it up. We have our felt sides off, and we are going to mark our holes, so we can do some starter holes in the studs There are two holes on each side. And slide it back out again, so we can start some starter holes in the wall.

There is a good little mark there to start drilling. Okay, so we have our holes all started, we are going to put our safe back in the wall, and we have got fastening lag bolts, included we are going to take these guys out, and washers and we just put those right through the holes we started and right through the safe. And we get our rachet and we are ready to go. What you want to do too, is to get all four started in there, you do not want to tighten one down then go and tighten the other one. You just get all four of them done and then you go back in and do that final tightening on all of them. Just get them snug tight, do not crank them down too hard.

Okay, we are all secure there. Now our next step. We are ready to put our shelf in. Now in the back wall of the safe, we have got these slits in the felt. So we are going to pull the felt apart right at the slit, And you can see behind the slit here, It is lined with little holes and that's what our shelf screws into.

So you just pick the desired height that you want your shelf. You have got both sides here, so I have separated the felt here and found my two holes what I am going to do is set my shelf in place, you have to angle it up to get it in and then we are going to line up the hole through the bottom of the shelf and then it goes right into the hole in the back wall we have our shelf and we are going to just tighten our screws down little bit more. And check our door, perfect.

So we are all finished now, we have got our vault installed and the shelf is in place, so I am all ready to fill it up now. Clean up, it does make a little bit
Of a mess, ladies, so we are going to bring the vacuum in and get up the drywall dust. We had a little faux pas here, I was thinking, I wanted it higher, but I had our closet bracket in the way. So we will just touch that up with some paint, no, big deal. The other dry wall cuts are all hidden by our flange here. If you are going to put this in a room it is flush enough, you can hang a picture over it and completely hide it. It sticks out maybe 1/16 of an inch or so, your knob sticks out just a touch over the flange. You are all set. It is really easy to use, you just turn the knob, push in the buttons, for the code you set, we will go over that in just a minute. It is so fast and easy to use. Thanks again for watching, this is Mary at V-line.

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[INaneek]

does safes contain lead?

[DeanSafe]

@INaneek Lead is not common in safe. Did see one that had lead but the was 30 years ago and the safe was made in the 1800's

[boscoesarmy]

That's not a wall safe. Its basically a safe bolted to sheetrock. I would wrench that out in 2 mins with a crow bar. A wall safe to me, is buried into a concrete wall.

[DeanSafe]

@boscoesarmy Your right thanks for stating the obvious. But out here in West 95% of the homes have drywall and stud construction its not ideal but its what we got. Even the outside walls are drywall, sticks, and stucco.

thank for watching,

John

[boscoesarmy]

@DeanSafe I'd recommend a floor safe buried in cement in the basement then :)

[DeanSafe]

@boscoesarmy We recommend floor safes as well, but none of the homes have basements so they just go into the ground floor

[Arekwestpaul]

I wonder what happened to the original hole she made on the right hand side of the closet? hummm

[nicelogin2]

HEHEHE... hanging a picture inside a closet.

Nope, there isn't a hidden safe here.

Nope, the hundred thousand dollars aren't in here.

Nope, there aren't any one hundred dollar bills inside the walls.

[mainenwo]

I'm sorry but considering how little depth and useable space this safe offers to the user to keep things in it ...it would make better sense to install this in the floor

[CRMXER]

@boscoesarmy if it doesnt work for you Dont buy it, it's that simple.The video seems to be geared a individuals whom have already made the educated decision to purchase this unit and understand what they purchased, there is not a safe on the market that is burgalar proof, every "good quality" safe that you purchase is easily cut open from the back no matter how much attention to stregth they have placed on the door and lock assy a cordless angle grinder will get into just about any safe

[cristohv]

this is awesome!! i love it! i'll take 3 please :)

[RcUniverseGuy]

That's a weird kitchen...

[ivanhale]

I want one. Also I don't understand the comment about it only being in sheet rock. She is clearly running 4 lag bolts into the 4x4 studs. As a carpenter I know that that safe is quite secure. It would take quite a bit of time and destruction and noise to break that thing out of the wall. It's really about discouraging a thief who wants to get in and out. I would use it in my pantry downstairs to keep my 9mm so that I could more quickly shoot the crow bar guy. :)