Safe Talk

Did you know we have a YouTube Channel devoted to teaching you all about the latest safes on the market, the newest security measures, and for answering all of your burning questions? Well…we do! Dye the Safe Guy has been providing you with some great videos for several years now. Whether you know quite a lot about safes and are looking to add to your home or office security or if you are just now doing research for a safe as a first-time buyer, he has some great information for you!

He not only checks out the latest models that have come into the warehouse but also talks about the advantages of different types of home or office safes. If you have a question, let us know and we’ll see if we can’t get Dye to answer your question via YouTube!

Check out our channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/safeandvaultstore

Maybe you work in an office where you help maintain the computer systems? Maybe you work at a company that specializes in computers and IT? Maybe you are an independent consultant who is called in by multi-nationals to set up computer technology? What do all these brainy professionals have in common? They all work with expensive and highly sensitive materials and they are all in need of a high quality safe to protect their valuables.

IT Professionals handle lots of expensive equipment including computers, servers, tons of wires, modems, hard drives, software, other hardware pieces that I’m not even going to pretend to know about. Lucky for them, these components are usually relatively small. Think of your computer – let’s say you splurged and spent $2,000 for your computer. And it’s the size of notebook. What else, besides for cash and jewelry, is that valuable and that small? It makes technology a perfect target for robbers or home invaders who may be looking to score a quick buck by going through your home. Additionally, at least for me, computers also hold tons of personal information – from bank account numbers to passport scans, to family photos, home movies, work related documents. It’s incredible how much of our lives we trust to electronic devices nowadays.

So what you think? Do you want to leave all this just laying around your home where it is highly vulnerable to robbers? Or would you rather hedge your bets and protect it all in a high quality safe? I’ll let you be the judge (but there does seem to be a pretty easy answer!)

What do you do for a living? Are you curious to know if you could benefit from a home safe? We’ve love to hear some of your stories – about how safes have helped you in times of trouble or how you wish you’d have purchased a safe.

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With the high price of childcare today, many men and woman are opting to stay home and take care of their children instead of going to work. This means that there is an increased number of part-time, small business owners as these moms and dads struggle to support their families. So, the question is, does a Stay at Home Mom or Dad need a home safe? Yes! An astounding yes!

There are so many important documents that come with taking care of a home and your children. These documents (not to mention things of sentimental value) need to be protected from the threat of fire or theft. For example, where do you keep the deed to your home? Where do you keep your children’s birth certificates? What about your own marriage certificate? Social security cards? There is so much information that we must keep safe as part of keeping our home together. Of course you might be one of those people who just shove papers here, there, and everywhere and hope you can find them again. But the smarter thing to do is to keep a file filled with all these documents and store them inside of a fire safe.

Regardless of the type of business you are in, from child-care to high finance; from ski-instruction to accounting; from writing to construction, there is a good chance that your life would be easier if you had a safe place to keep your important documents, valuables, and sentimental collectibles. It is far easier to purchase a high quality safe and rest assured that your valuables will not come to harm, that it is to stress about potential fires & burglary that may put your valuables at risk.

What do you do for a living? Are you curious to know if you could benefit from a home safe? We’ve love to hear some of your stories – about how safes have helped you in times of trouble or how you wish you’d have purchased a safe.

Also—if there are any topics we’re missing on the SafeandVaultStore.com blog that you think we should focus on, please let a note in the comment section and we’ll see if we can’t get something written on it.

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We get this question a lot – is an in-home safe better than a safety deposit box at a bank? Well…this is a tricky question to answer because one solution is not necessarily better than another. In fact, the answer to this question is almost always subjective. I’ll roll out the pros and cons of each solution and then each of you should be able to better answer the question yourself.

A safety deposit box at a bank is great because it is fireproof, waterproof, not in your home (and thus cannot be taken from your home), under super tight bank security, and its contents are legally protected in case of death. On the other hand, a safety deposit box isn’t perfect because it’s not available when the bank isn’t open, it is easy to lose your key to your box, there is an annual fee associated with keeping the box that can be quite expensive, there many be issues accessing the box in case of the owner’s death because legally the estate has to close before anyone has access to it.

An In-home safe is great because it is locked, can be both fireproof and waterproof depending on the type of safe you purchase, it’s accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, when it is properly mounted to the floor or if you’ve installed an in-floor safe, it’s difficult to run of with, and it’s a one time expense that doesn’t require a monthly or yearly expense. On the other hand, the fire and waterproof ratings are never as good as the ratings of safety deposit boxes, if a natural disaster destroys your home, it will likely also destroy the box and all the stuff therein.

If you have very specific needs, you can choose one or the other option. Many of our clients end up choosing both – a safe at home for everything you might need at a moment’s notice (birth certificates, marriage licenses and whatnot) and a safety deposit box for those things that need extra protection and don’t need to be accessible right away (like a backup copy of important pictures).

Does this help you? Have you made this decision lately?

Here is a great video by Dye the Safe Guy (our main man around here at SafeandVaultStore.com) talking about burglar and fire safes. It’s a great primer if you are thinking about taking the leap into purchasing a new safe for your home or office.

There are some possessions that are irreplaceable, for that reason we take every precaution to protect these items. To that end many have found it beneficial to purchase a burglar fire safe to preserve their valuables. Burglar fire safes are a hybrid type safe. They are designed in such a way that they can provide protection from fire, and at the same time prevent thief of the items in them.
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Are Burglary Fire Safes Better Than Burglary Safes? This question is very hard to answer at first glance. The only way this question can be properly answered is by greatly examining both safes. The first question to be asked is what are the differences between burglar fire safes and burglar safes? After much research, I have found the answer to this mind boggling question.
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A Burglary Fire Safe is usually a composite safe that helps you protect important documents from possible fires and valuables from burglars at an affordable price. Almost all Burglary Fire Safes have passed a 1 to 2 hour 350 degree Fahrenheit factory fire test. Content that is usually stored in these safes range from $5,000-$30.000. So when your purchasing a home and you decide that you want to protect your home with many spy cameras and various alarm systems, even the highest quality of these alarms and cameras sometimes won’t be able to protect your most valuable belongings. This article is to help you see the benefits of a Burglary Fire Safe when it comes to protecting your cash, valuables, and jewelry.
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A few weeks ago my near and dear WSU Cougar football team played the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. It was supposed to be a walk in the park for the Fighting Irish, which of course it was. Unfortunately for the Cougars, the front line of the Fighting Irish was simply too much of a heavy-weight for the Cougs. This year, the Cougs have just come up woefully short. Thankfully, there is always next year to make things better and that is the nature of college football.

When it comes to protecting valuables, if you lose something because some jerk happened to want what you have, and takes it without asking (aka being burglarized), are you going to have next year to replace what was stolen? (more…)

While we cannot totally prevent someone from breaking into a home or business, there are some precautions that can be taken to better protect oneself against a loss. Many will say that insurance companies will pay to cover these losses and that it isn’t something to worry about. Use your insurance too many times though, and your insurance premium will either be sky high, or the insurance company will politely tell you to go somewhere else. (more…)