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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.

Whether you’ve 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 you’ve 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.

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. You’ll 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.

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 you’re 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 it’s securely strapped to the dolly. Tilt the dolly back to try and distribute the safe’s weight evenly onto the wheels, then slowly and very carefully, wheel it to the foot of your stairs.

Two members of the moving team should lift the dolly up one step at a time (if you’re not using a stair climbing dolly), and if the safe slips, or anyone loses their grip on it, don’t put yourself in harm’s way, it simply isn’t 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.