Safe Talk

Just recently my grandmother had a fire safe installed. Most of the very important documents that she was going to store in the safe were being stored in a card board box! Instantly it makes you think, “What if she had a fire?” While my grandma has a home that is equipped with several smoke detectors and a burglar alarm, in most fires people have precious few minutes to get out of their homes and save their own lives, let alone their valuables and important documents. Safes don’t have to only be mounted on the floor, they can be mounted, as her’s was, on a raised surface so she doesn’t have to bend way over to open the safe. Making sure that her important documents are safe and that everything in it is secured is such a relief!

The majority of safe manufacturers list their safes as “fire resistant” instead of fireproof. There is a good reason for this. In order for a fire safe to successfully resist fire, the special composite material sandwiched between the outer and inner metal walls gives off moisture. This creates steam inside of the safe. (more…)