A gun safe is dense, top-heavy once the door is on, and unforgiving of a mistake. A Liberty Colonial 50 weighs 990 pounds in a 72.5 by 42 by 32 inch box, and getting it out of an Orlando garage and into a second-floor closet is an engineering problem before it is a lifting problem.
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Six boxes, about thirty seconds. You pick when to be called back, and that is when the phone rings.
Or call (321) 463-9055Manufacturer figures are the starting point. Liberty lists the Centurion 24 at 365 pounds, the Lincoln 25 at 733 pounds and the Colonial 50 at 990 pounds, with the Colonial standing 72.5 inches tall on a 42 by 32 inch footprint. Contents add to that: ammunition in bulk is heavier per cubic foot than anything else in a house. A safe is emptied and the door is locked shut before the move, because a swinging door on a tipped safe turns a controlled descent into a fall. The dial or keypad and the handle are the two parts that get damaged, so both are padded and boxed against the body.
Table R301.5 of the 2023 Florida Residential Code sets a 40 psf minimum uniformly distributed live load for rooms other than sleeping rooms and 30 psf for sleeping rooms. A 990-pound safe on a two-and-a-half-square-foot footprint is a concentrated load that no distributed design value speaks to. Orange County's housing stock is 56.5 percent single-unit detached and heavily slab-on-grade, so the low-risk answer in most of Orlando is a ground-floor interior wall over the slab. If the safe has to go to a second floor, the position over a bearing wall and the joist direction matter, and that is a question for the builder's plans or a structural professional rather than the crew.
Going up, the safe is walked on a stair-climbing dolly with a belayed line above it and the mass kept low and against the treads. Going down, gravity is doing the work and the crew is only metering it, which is why the count of people on the line matters more than the count on the lift. Orlando's 2000s subdivisions put a single switchback flight between the garage and the bonus room, and a switchback landing is where a tall safe runs out of diagonal. Measure the landing's shortest dimension and the safe's diagonal height first. If the diagonal loses, the piece does not go up that stair at any crew size.
Most of the Orlando route is outdoors on concrete or paver driveway, and that is where a loaded dolly gets stuck. Paver joints and driveway lips catch small wheels, and a spalled slab edge will collapse under a point load. Track plates or plywood runs go down before the safe moves, not after a wheel drops. Anchor bolts at the origin are cut or backed out, and the holes at the destination get drilled after the safe is positioned, not before, because a 990-pound object does not slide sideways an inch to meet a pilot hole.
Section 507.01 of the Florida Statutes lists hoisting or lowering, long carry, elevator or stair carrying, waiting time and equipment such as dollies, hand trucks, pads and straps as accessorial services separate from transportation. A safe move is usually the accessorial line rather than the transportation line, and that should be visible on the written estimate. The same section makes valuation coverage accessorial as well, and a safe is a high-value single article: decide the coverage before the piece is on a dolly, because a weight-based released value calculation is not going to reflect what the safe cost.
If the origin or destination is in a gated community such as Lake Nona or MetroWest, ask the association in writing whether a truck of that size uses the resident gate or a service entrance, and whether a certificate of insurance naming the association is required. Both change the arrival time, and arrival time matters here: Orlando's mean daily maximum is 92.2 degrees in July, Florida has no state heat-exposure standard after House Bill 433 in 2024, and a crew doing the hardest single lift of the day at two in the afternoon is the avoidable version of this job. Book it first thing.
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Call (321) 463-9055Chapter 507 of the Florida Statutes requires every mover doing intrastate household moves in Florida to register with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services before operating or advertising. The registration number must appear on each estimate and contract, in advertising, and on a sign on the driver's-side door of the truck in lettering at least 1.5 inches tall. Operating unregistered draws an immediate cease and desist order and a civil penalty of up to $5,000, and withholding delivery of goods after the shipper has paid what the estimate states is a prohibited practice.
Why it matters: It gives an Orlando household three concrete things to check before load day: the number on the written estimate, the number in the advertisement, and the number on the door of the truck in the driveway. It also means the written estimate is a regulated document rather than a courtesy, and that goods cannot be held in storage as leverage once payment matches the estimate.
Sources: fdacs.gov · flsenate.gov · flsenate.gov
The Census Bureau puts Orange County at 1,528,002 residents as of July 1, 2025, up 6.9 percent from the 1,429,910 counted in the 2020 census. The Orlando Economic Partnership reports the Orlando region added 37,690 residents in the year ending July 1, 2025, the sixth fastest growth among large U.S. regions.
Why it matters: Constant in-migration and turnover is why moving capacity in Orlando is tight at month end and why interstate loads arriving here are usually consolidated with other shipments. It also explains the mix of jobs: long hauls inbound from other states, and short cross-county moves as households shift between Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Brevard.
Sources: census.gov · news.orlando.org
Census QuickFacts puts the owner-occupied housing rate in Orange County at 56.8 percent for 2020-2024, meaning roughly 43 to 44 percent of occupied homes are rented. Orange County's own fair housing analysis counts 209,073 renter-occupied units out of 444,543 occupied units, about 44 percent, and reports that apartment complexes make up about 28 percent of the county's housing stock against 56.5 percent single-family detached.
Why it matters: Apartment and condo moves are the most common household move in Orlando, and managed properties set the terms: a certificate of insurance naming the property, a reserved service elevator or loading window that is often weekday-only, gate codes and dock heights. Those requirements decide the arrival time and the crew size, and a crew that turns up without the paperwork is refused at the dock.
Sources: census.gov · orangecountyfl.net
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