Wife and I recently moved, and i hope to remain at this location awhile. Looking to get my first safe, but since we may move again in the next few years, not looking to get anything incredibly heavy or large. Hence, I was hoping you guys/gals could help me with the following:

 

1. Good quality safe (quality = decent security and fire rating, under $700 or less) to hold about 6 long guns and a few pistols; and

 

2. Any retailer (local preferred) that would deliver and help me get it down into the basement?

 

For No. 2, sure, I can get my brothers/buddies to help. However, I do not have a garage and don't want to have a safe sitting out in the open while i wait for people's schedules to free up...

 

Thanks in advance!

There's a company that delivers for you. Simon Peter sport in Andover, has the company's contact information. I didn't take the business card when I was there last because I already muscled mine into my house.

I have been asking the same question on and off for more than a year. I am in dire need of a safe. I cannot schlepp a 400 lb safe from my driveway to my basement. I would not even think of asking anyone I knew to help me. We're all old, feeble, and toothless up here.

Snap Safe!  Put it together yourself!

You can rent motorized stair climbing handtrucks that make things a lot easier. While it helps to have another person or two just in case, I was able to move a smaller 10 gun safe myself with minimal wall damage (maneuvering through narrow landings is tough when you don't know what you're doing, lol). I'm pretty sure I could have handled a larger safe without problem (though I'm sure I'd have scarred my walls near the landings even worse)  You'll just need to practice going up and down stairs a bit before loading the safe on just so you get the hang of it. They might be far for you, but www.arearentalsinc.com in Union county has them, and will also do a 1/2 day rate.

I own a power cart stair climbing hand truck. I use it for boiler installation often. It takes two guys just to get the dam thing in and out of the truck. Sucker weighs over 200lbs. Itself. It does work great, but you have to decide if wooden steps can hold the cart, safe, and two guys. I won't use it unless they are concrete steps going down billco doors from outside. Put that much weight on a wooden staircase, and it will look like a scene from that movie the money pit.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zFwBptAlvlQ

 

 

thanks everyone for the posts and PMs. I may just need to put my man pants on and make my brothers help me. However ill check out some of the delivery and help options everyone mentioned. thanks all