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If someone had the time and foresight to know it's there and get through it, they know way too much.
I forgot to mention the gun room will have dedicated standalone wireless security. So potential buglar will first have to disable house alarm, then break in into the vault then disable vault alarm. Sounds like a lot of trouble to go thru.
Might not be the answer you are looking for, but if the criminal is good enough he is going to get in. I would think you are better off hiding the whole gun room or make it look as innocuous as possible. My plan when I get a new place is to make a solid 'foundation' wall right across the whole basement so unless someone measures the dimensions they won't realize that it's too short. Hide the access door behind an easy to move bookshelve or something similar... and then NEVER post about it or talk to anyone who you can't trust 100%
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You don't need concrete. Build the walls and ceiling with 2x4 (or 2x6), use 3/4" plywood to sheet both sides then drywall on top to make it look normal, run rebar perpendicular to the studs/joists inside the walls/ceiling, leave the rebar loose. If someone tries to cut through the saw will hit the rebar, which will spin thus stopping/ruining the saw. Since you can't stop, only slow down, add a good alarm system. A friend of mine added an external horn with a wire running up the side of the house. The catch was that the wire was a fake cross-connected at the top and part of the alarm system as a normally closed switch...That's right, cut what looks like an alarm horn wire and the alarm goes off.
The ceiling aspect sounds like over kill to me. Unless you are building a panic room. The amount of time it would take to go through the floor to get into your gun room would be way more than 99.9999% of dudes would ever spend. I have a "gun room" 3/4 inch plywood walls with board over and steal door. Electronic entry and Dedicated hidden alarm system. First one would have to defeat the house alarm before even getting to the room. By the time they found out the gun room has a alarm too it's already to late, it's been triggered. No crook is hanging out for more than a minute with alarms going off. I'd spend the ceiling time and money on cameras and such. Good luck.
My basement walls are concrete and the house was built in early nineties. Not really sure how thick the floor is. I figured since the wall that I'm building will be in between two foundation walls the weight of my wall will partially be supported by the foundation walls footing and won't be solely on the slab. Am I thinking right?