Once the safe is in the truck, position it against a side and securely strap it so it doesn't move during the ride. If you're loading the safe onto the back of a moving truck, use a loading ramp to roll the dolly up. Completely secure the safe to the dolly with the straps or ropes before moving along your pre-planned path. With the help of your friends, slowly and CAREFULLY tilt your safe and slip the dolly underneath its bottom. You'll want to tape the blankets in place to prevent them from falling off or tripping you. Wrap it in moving blankets to help protect against damage. Once you are ready to start moving a safe, make sure it's closed and locked. If you're moving the safe to another house or business, make sure the vehicle you use is large enough and capable of carrying the weight of your safe.Protect your hands with high-quality work gloves that will give you a good grip on the safe and moving equipment.Wear comfortable, close-toed shoes with good soles for better traction to reduce the chance of you slipping while you move the safe, and to protect your feet.When renting equipment from a moving company, you'll need to know the dimensions and weight of your safe.Borrow or rent a heavy-duty appliance dolly for moving your gun safe, along with supporting straps or ropes and thick moving blankets.Empty out your safe to make it lighter and protect its valuable contents from being damaged during the move.Ensure any staircases that might be used are sturdy enough to hold the weight of the safe.Pre-plan your route through the house and measure any doorways or tight spots so you'll know whether you can actually transport the safe through narrow spaces.But most importantly, you need to have a plan in place. Part of moving a safe is preparing it for the move and having the right equipment available. It's a good idea to have at least three strong friends available who are physically up to this heavy-duty task. Whether you're moving it across the room or to a room down the hall, have others help you. The danger in this is that your safe could tip over. Sometimes it's tempting to move your safe on your own, especially if you're just moving it across the same room to a new spot.
But if you must move yours, these tips will show you how to move a heavy safe while reducing your risk of injury and damage to your home and your safe.
The safest option is to use professional movers who have experience with safe moving.
Our home safes for sale are packed with features ranging from fire protection to military-style locking bars-which means they've invaluable once they're in your home, but getting them inside in the first place can be a trial. Tomorrow, go back do it a couple more times.Moving a gun safe is not an easy task because of its bulky size and weight. You know one thing I do recommend is that when you set a new code, you go back and do it several times the first day you set it. Now for the test, we are going to shut the door and lock it again. So we push in the code, one, two, three, four, five, and to unlock we are turning clockwise to the right and we are all unlocked.Ĭheck it again.
Now we turn it back left, counterclockwise and our new code should be set.
So for example if we want our code to be one, two, three, four, five - Just to go right down the line, push the buttons as we want them, and now very critical, we take our knob, and we turn to the right, or clockwise, once we have done that we have set our code. Now we have just cleared out the existing combination. At this point you are going to enter the existing combination so again whatever you just push to open it you just push those buttons but do not turn the knob now we are going to the inside, and at the bottom of the lock we've got a little tab here what we are going to do is push this little tab up and into the lock, and you will just kind of hear it click in place and then we can go back to the outside of the door we are going to take our knob and turn it left or counterclockwise. Once you have it opened, you are going to turn it back left counterclockwise to lock it. You enter the existing combination, either the factory setting it came to you on, or whatever you have it set to now.Īfter you enter that code you turn your knob to the right clockwise and that opens it. What you do is you start with your door locked shut, you are going to turn your knob left counterclockwise that, clears out whatever combination buttons have been pushed. Hi, I am Mary from DeanSafe, and today we're going to show you how to set a combination. How to change the combination on Simplex Locks Video Transcript: