mounting a safe

Believe it or not a person(scum-bag) who breaks into houses hardly ever venture into the loft. ;-)

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

On a concrete floor, if the grout lines are reasonably wide you could get a angle grinder into them and grind very carefully around the tile or tiles, then hack them out with a cold chisel. If you don't grind first, there is a great risk of cracking adjacent tiles. You need to cut a hole with a pnewmatic drill to the required depth leaving an inch gap wider than the safe all around, and cement in the safe.

LOL .. just be damn sure you don't put the safe above anyone's bed!!! ;o)

Presumably this is one of those cheap'n cheerful types like you get in hotel rooms?

You've missed out the key bit of information, which is, what's under the tiles - is it floorboards? Solid concrete? And the tiles are ceramic, I guess?

David

The tiles sound like vinyl/asbestos and could be mounted on anything; concrete or floor boards most likely. You need to bolt it down I guess, does it have holes in the base?

If floor boards under the tile then large screws will be OK, if concrete then screws & plugs - but a normal hammer drill won't touch concrete, you need SDS.

Dave

Yep its a relatively cheapish eletronic pad code type safe. Solid steel.

Its solid concrete under the tiles, the tiles are ceramic.

Cheers

...and you may also end up breaking through the DPM :-}

I`ve got a "medium" size safe, and to be honest, there`s not really that much of value in there - its sufficiently heavy without bolting it down to seriously hinder anyones' chances of a quick getaway !

Is it me, or is that phrase spectacularly pointless? A safe composed of solid steel would be rather useless, and heavy.

david lang wrote: [...]- but a normal hammer drill won't touch

Rubbish, how do you think anybody drilled concrete before SDS was around? If it's a floor it won't be that horribly hard stuff they make those cast garages out of. A normal hammer drill will do nicely.

Dave