How To Get Your Safe, Safely Upstairs

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How To Get Your Safe, Safely Upstairs
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• Safes are big, bulky and heavy, and getting one
  into your home without professional help, is both
  difficult and potentially dangerous. Not only
  could you harm yourself during the moving
  process, but you could damage the safe or your
  home, both of which are significant investments
  worth protecting.
• Fortunately, most reputable safe
  suppliers/sellers will have a team of specially
  trained safe movers on hand to help get the safe
  inside your home without damaging anyone, or
  anything.

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• Whether youve got to navigate steps to get
  inside your home, or want your safe to be
  installed on a second or third floor, having
  professionals to help you will get the job done
  in a fraction of the time, and will ensure that
  neither your safe, or your property, is harmed in
  the process. That said, not everybody wants that
  service, so if youve bought a safe and need to
  get inside your home and up the stairs to another
  floor, here are some tips on how to do it safely
• Firstly, get a team of at least two strong
  individuals to help you. Make sure that everybody
  involved is wearing heavy-duty gloves and
  closed-toe shoes.

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• Then, determine the dimensions of your safe so
  that you can rent the right moving equipment. A
  heavy-duty dolly is essential for getting your
  safe upstairs, and an electric stair-climbing
  dolly can make the process even easier. Ensure
  that the dolly is load-rated for the weight of
  your safe, and check that your stairs are capable
  of holding the weight, too.
• Assemble strong straps and several thick,
  heavy-duty blankets. Youll need the straps to
  secure the safe to the dolly, and the blankets
  will help prevent the safe from getting scraped
  or bashed as you move it.

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• Make sure the safe is empty and if possible,
  remove the door. The door is a third of the
  overall weight of the safe, so removing it can
  make it a little lighter to move.
• Now youre ready to move the safe
• Wrap the safe in the blankets and tilt it to one
  side to enable someone to slide a dolly
  underneath it. make sure the straps are wrapped
  tightly around the safe and that its securely
  strapped to the dolly. Tilt the dolly back to try
  and distribute the safes weight evenly onto the
  wheels, then slowly and very carefully, wheel it
  to the foot of your stairs.

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• Two members of the moving team should lift the
  dolly up one step at a time (if youre not using
  a stair climbing dolly), and if the safe slips,
  or anyone loses their grip on it, dont put
  yourself in harms way, it simply isnt worth it!
• Moving a safe up a flight of stairs is never
  going to be a simple task, but with a team of
  professional safe movers on hand, things will
  happen a lot faster, and the risk of harm to
  anyone or anything, is virtually eliminated.

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  since 1999. With a team of highly skilled workers
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