Brian,

A couple things to think about. If leave it where you have it now, you will have a problem with humidity inside. That won't be good.

If you decide to move it where you really would like to have it, hire a professional. Trust me, it will be well worth it and may save your life. Those safes are very heavy and you will not be able to stop if if something goes wrong.

I had a large, heavy safe in the last home I lived in. In fact, it is still in that home as long as I know. There was no way I was going to try and move it again.

They were going to charge me $50 to deliver it and move it into my house. I decided to save the money and do it myself. The first problem came on the way home. I had a Dodge minivan at the time and it was laying flat in the back of that van, no middle seat. On the trip home I had to slam on the brakes once and the safe decided that it would rather slide along on the carpet at 55 mph than stop like the rest of the van was doing. It very nearly crushed me between the seat and the steering wheel.

It literally took HOURS to move the safe inside. I was putting it in the closet of the bedroom that I used for a home office. We made it down the hall ok, but then had to set it up to move it through the door into the bedroom. We got it halfway in and could move it no more. Now we had a real problem as we couldn't even get into the room anymore. We had to break out the window and crawl through from the outside. We finally got it into the closet, but only after many hours work.

Now I keep the lions share of my chips at the bank. I could get another safe, but I keep thinking that although a safe could keep my chips safe if I was away, as long as someone is home for a thief to threaten, it will do no good at all when we are home.

Greg