Several questions.
1. How heavy is the safe? I saw 600 mentioned in one post. Is that the weight of the safe?
2. Wooden stairs, how old and can they stand the weight of a 600 lb(?) safe and several 200 lb men moving it and the weight of the dolly plus the cribbing?
3. The second floor you say? Is there a load bearing wall under the spot you intend to place the safe? If not how are you going to keep the floor from shifting, sagging or just plain out and out failing and falling in?
4. One suggestion said one man with rope at top and two pushing. The answer to that is NO WAY would I be within 50 ft of such a project.
I don't want to be a stick in the mud, but your best bet is put the safe on a concrete floor and if it has bolt down holes, bolt it to the concrete. Could someone who knows what they are doing get it to the second floor safely? Ask someone who does this for a living, he is not going to go up a set of stairs he might get killed on nor, if he is knowledgeable install it in an area where it would damage the house. He would not want you coming back and suing him a year from now over damage or injuries because he put a heavy safe where it should not be installed.
Have I moved safes in the past? The answer is yes, I am also retired and do not have the equipment available anymore.
1. How heavy is the safe? I saw 600 mentioned in one post. Is that the weight of the safe?
2. Wooden stairs, how old and can they stand the weight of a 600 lb(?) safe and several 200 lb men moving it and the weight of the dolly plus the cribbing?
3. The second floor you say? Is there a load bearing wall under the spot you intend to place the safe? If not how are you going to keep the floor from shifting, sagging or just plain out and out failing and falling in?
4. One suggestion said one man with rope at top and two pushing. The answer to that is NO WAY would I be within 50 ft of such a project.
I don't want to be a stick in the mud, but your best bet is put the safe on a concrete floor and if it has bolt down holes, bolt it to the concrete. Could someone who knows what they are doing get it to the second floor safely? Ask someone who does this for a living, he is not going to go up a set of stairs he might get killed on nor, if he is knowledgeable install it in an area where it would damage the house. He would not want you coming back and suing him a year from now over damage or injuries because he put a heavy safe where it should not be installed.
Have I moved safes in the past? The answer is yes, I am also retired and do not have the equipment available anymore.
