gun safe on second floor?

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Just bought a safe and I want to put it on the second floor. Any advice? It will be professional moved. I am just worried about the weight on the floor. I would guess with guns about 7-800 pounds. House was made in 2010.
 
1. What's going to be below the safe? Is there a wall under that area?
2. If going in a closet, I would put down 2 layers of GOOD plywood to help with the loading, screwed to a joist if you can.
 
There is nothing under it. It’s going toward the front of the house in a corner. It’s going we’re the surefire case is in the photo. The weight is about 640 give or take. I ain’t so good at math.
 

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I finished a spare room on the second floor and built some walk up stairs into the attic (wanted to get rid of that dreaded pull down stair case).
Anyway, I had some spare 2x8's so I cut and screwed them down to the subfloor for the base under the staircase, then put the safe in, and bolted that down to the 2x8's; then walled around the safe and enclosed with sheet rock, trimmed around the door and good to go.
 
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There is nothing under it. It’s going toward the front of the house in a corner. It’s going we’re the surefire case is in the photo. The weight is about 640 give or take. I ain’t so good at math.

In the corner like that it will be fine. Just bolt it down and to the wall.
 
I just had movers bring 2 safes onto my 3rd floor office. I put them at opposite ends closer to walls/corners where (less span on beam).

im not worried about our floor, just happy no one got crushed hauling them up there
 
If you spent extra for “fireproof”, don’t put it on a second floor.

It might have a fire rating, but it doesn’t have a fall-through-the-floor-in-a-fire rating.

If your house or at least the room is in a fully involved fire, probably have bigger problems than safe crashing through ceiling, no?
 
Safes are usually fine in corners if safe and contents are under 1000 pounds. Really no need to do anything on any floor.
 
If you spent extra for “fireproof”, don’t put it on a second floor.

It might have a fire rating, but it doesn’t have a fall-through-the-floor-in-a-fire rating.
I have a smaller safe that does have a fall rating... thats actually a thing. Theres a tag inside the door with burn and fall specs. And you're right, the gun safe doesn't have it.
 
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Sorry I'm late totto convo. I'm a truss designer. Being close to a wall you'll be fine. If you put it in the middle of a span over a chase you might start having issues depending on the truss depth. Trusses are typically already designed for 40 lbs of live load per ft on the top chord and 10 lbs of dead load per ft on the top chord. Your safe isn't close to that loading. Just make sure you bolt the safe down make it harder to steal.
 
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