Wall safes, or I should say, wall mounted lock boxes...

[K Frame]

Thinking of getting one, but I'm wondering how easy they are to install. I've got a fantastic place in my house for one, which is both well hidden and easily accessible.

[Manedwolf]

As long as it's not the z-line one.

[charby]

Having a safe behind your oil paint portrait?

[K Frame]

Nah, one of the Sentry Safe ones. I know it's just a lock box, but it's better than anything I have right now.

"Having a safe behind your oil paint portrait?"

Yep, the Portrait of Mike Irwin.

It keeps getting nicer as I keep getting meaner. 

Actually, there's another place in the house that's even better than putting it behind a painting.

[Sawdust]

What a coincidence; I have one of these right now on my workbench that I am about to install:

http://www.buyasafe.com/Wall_Safes_p/wes2113-b.htm

Whadda ya wanna know?

Sawdust

[K Frame]

I was actually looking at one of those, but I think it's overkill for what I want.

Once you install it, though, tell me how it went. That's actually what I want to know.

[Manedwolf]

Need one of those powered ones with the steel door that lowers.

All the guns should be placed in fitted cutouts, under dramatic lighting. 

[Bogie]

Drywall saw, and some epoxy, and quick-set cement... Shouldn't be a big deal. Cut a hole, glue it to a beam/stud, screw it into place, then splooge cement in around it.
 

[Sawdust]

Well the simplest scenario would be finding studs spaced 16" apart (center-to-center) where you want the box. Cut a hole in the drywall horizontally stud to stud and the appropriate height; insert safe and screw in supplied lag bolts from inside the safe. Hang picture.

Make sure that there is no switch box for an overhead light sharing the desire wall cavity as there will be Romex stapled to one of the studs and thus making insertion of the safe impossible.

Now, my installation is more involved as there are no studs with the desired spacing in the location that I want to do the install. Thus, I am going to pul the existing drywall off, re-stud, etc.

Does that help?

Sawdust

[K Frame]

Need one of those powered ones with the steel door that lowers.

All the guns should be placed in fitted cutouts, under dramatic lighting. 

I'm not J, and I don't look good in black...

[K Frame]

"Does that help?"

No, you haven't installed it yet... 

[K Frame]

Drywall saw, and some epoxy, and quick-set cement... Shouldn't be a big deal. Cut a hole, glue it to a beam/stud, screw it into place, then splooge cement in around it.
 

I like the epoxy add on, but with lag bolts, is it really necessary?

Were I installing from scratch on an undrywalled wall I'd put steel plating on the studs to make them impossible to cut and a lot more dificult/impossible to rip out.

[Bogie]

If you really wanna get eeevil, get some chicken or rat wire, and sandwich it between two layers of drywall, using a copious amount of liquid nails as part of the interlayer. Someone can get through it. Eventually.
 

[DJJ]

My cheap tract house has interior studs on 24" centers. Anybody know of a safe made for that spacing?

[geronimotwo]

My cheap tract house has interior studs on 24" centers. Anybody know of a safe made for that spacing?

you should be able to install 2x4 crosspieces at the top and bottom dimensions of the box, and lag into those

[DJJ]

Then I'd have to cut holes outside of the two studs in question. 

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

use the heaVY DUTY  liquid nails. lots of it. it will rip the 2x4's apart before it gives it up