Do It Yourself: How To Open Your Safe
Copyright 2012 by Ken Dunckel Safecracker Safe and Vault Service Serving San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California Licensed and Insured 415-203-7298 kendunckel@aol.com In the past month I've followed the work of two misinformed do-it-yourselfers. 1) A property owner found a safe left behind by the previous resident. Not only was it in the way of the remodeling, he was curious about whether there were contents. A contractor doing work there assured the owner that he could open the safe. Long story short: The contractor failed. He didn't give up until after doing grievous damage to the safe with hammers and grinders. In other words, a safe that could have been opened with zero to minimal damage and made usable was reduced to a piece of unrepairable junk. After paying me to open it, the owner had to have it hauled out and scrapped. This was a clear-cut case of "contractor machismo." Plenty of able-bodied guys with pickup trucks and job boxes f...