Best Gun Safe Movers
Salt Lake City, Utah

A safe is dense, top-heavy and offers nothing to hold. Those three together mean that when a safe move goes wrong it goes wrong quickly, and equipment is what stands between a controlled job and that.

Just-In-Time Moving moves safes across Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County.

What should be on the truck

Equipment rated for the weight. A general furniture dolly is not it. Ask what they are bringing for your particular safe, given its actual weight.

Straps and rigging, and the knowledge of where they go on an object with no natural attachment points.

Stair equipment for anything with a staircase. This is the part that matters most and the part most often absent. Controlling a dense object down a flight is not something a crew improvises safely.

Floor protection. Runners along the whole route, laid before the safe moves. Concentrated weight is harder on tile than people assume, and grit under a wheel marks wood.

Tools for anchors, if the safe is bolted at either end.

Crew size

Ask how many people, for your safe, on your route. Two is rarely the right answer for anything substantial with stairs involved.

The reason is control rather than strength. On a staircase people have to be positioned for what should not happen, and there has to be enough of them that nobody is holding more than they can hold if something shifts.

Warning signs

A quote given without asking the weight. No mention of stairs. Surprise at the question of what equipment they will bring. A crew arriving with a standard furniture dolly for a thousand-pound safe.

Also: an unwillingness to say a route might not work. Every experienced safe crew has turned jobs down.

What a good company asks

The make and model or the weight. How many stairs and whether they turn. What the flooring is along the route. Whether it is anchored. What is between the door and where a truck can park. And whether it is empty.

Send photographs of where it stands, the route out and the approach.

A note on the two-person quote you may be offered. It is not automatically wrong, and for a small safe on a flat concrete route it is the correct answer. What matters is whether the number was arrived at after somebody established the weight and looked at the stairs, or before. A crew sized to the job finishes faster and more safely than one sized to the price, and on this job specifically the difference between those two is not a scuffed wall. It is a cracked floor, a damaged staircase or somebody hurt.

Call (435) 862-3080 or email office@movingjustintime.com.