Home Safes

A home safe is a secure and convenient way to protect your important documents and valuables. If you have a safe deposit box, think of the yearly cost to maintain it, and then compare that to the cost of a home safe. You’ll be saving money in no time with your new home safe.

There are several variables to consider when purchasing a safe for your home:

Burglary protection

Your safe should be rated for burglary protection by a licensed testing lab. Some safes without this rating can be broken into within five minutes, plenty of time for a burglar to escape with your valuables. Also, you should bolt your safe to the floor so burglars can’t take it with them to open later at their leisure.

Fire protection

Unfortunately, there’s no such thing as a fireproof safe. Depending on a safe’s fire resistance rating, a safe can protect valuables and documents from fire for as long as four hours. Most home fires don’t burn that long, but you want to make sure your home safe has enough fire protection to protect your documents and valuables from being destroyed. If you’re storing data, CDs or media, you should consider a data media safe that is specifically designed to protect these items from fire.

Storage capacity

Before your purchase a home safe, consider how many items you want to store in it, and then consider anything else you might want to store in it in the future. People tend to purchase safes that are too small and end up having to buy other larger safes in the future to store the additional items they want secured in their safe.

Be sure to accurately measure the area you want your safe installed in your home to ensure a proper fit. Remember, safes should be installed in inconspicuous spaces in your home, and bolted to the floor for optimal protection.