A good tip to locating a safe is to have it stored in an unobvious location. For many homeowners, a secret room or basement are just not available. By far one of the most common places to store gun safes is in your garage. Due to its popularity, it is not the ideal storage spot for discretion, but often provides the greatest ease of installation.

If you do decide to install your safe in your garage, be sure that you follow a couple of practical suggestions. You may need to take additional precautions to keep the contents of your safe secure. The first thing that you are going to need to do is relocate or lock up some of your tools. The last things that you want lying next to your safe are the very tools that will assists in cracking it open.

Remove blow torches, power tools, saws, and other instruments that an intruder may use to break into your safe. If these tools are not readily available, you should be able to avoid theft by opportunity. An intruder should have a difficult time finding the necessary equipment to crack your safe. For this reason, you should also avoid storing flammable or other explosive items near your safe. Keep gas tanks, pressure tanks, and other flammables on the other side of the garage or outside in a storage shed.

Also, consider taking the opportunity to replace your existing garage doors with more secure garage doors. Standard garage doors are noted for the ease with which they can be broken into, but upgrading to a high security garage door provides a level of protection that is vastly superior and able to withstand even the most determined attempts to break in.

Finally, although strong physical security is always the best way to deter and defend against criminals, it’s worth additionally installing a home surveillance system to really ram home the message that you take security seriously and to provide effective evidence in the event that an attack does take place.

If you follow these few practical tips when installing your gun safe in a garage, you will be well on your way to having a more secure and tamper proof solution for your valuables.