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Safes are like parachutes, when you need one you don't want it to be made cheap. When protecting your money, do not go cheap. Here are our recommendations based on what you are putting into your safe.
For paperwork, most people ready to buy a safe will only need an inexpensive fire-rated home safes. You may ask yourself, "What safe fire rating is enough? When a home catches fire, it takes a bit for the heat to build up. By the time it does, the fire department may already be spraying water on the home cooling it down. For larger homes a 1-hour fire rated safe should do it.
For rural areas, you may want 2 hours the maximum you can purchase since fire response time to those areas is slow For maximum anti-theft protection, choose a TL burglary vault. These are the safes used by jewelry stores for maximum anti-theft ratings. Business safes are called business safes not for their security rating, but because they have locking drawers on the inside of the safe so the business owner can prevent access to additional material by someone that has access to the safe.
For example, you may want your manager to deposit and access cash, but you may not want him to have access to the company checks. It is true they are one step above a home safe in terms of construction, but if you're storing a lot of cash in it, upgrade to a burglary rated safe.
Consumers want their jewelry safes to fit in small spaces like in closets or cabinets. The hardest thing about smaller jewelry safes is that it is difficult to get any kind of real security built into a small safe. Those safes at the discount stores are junk and will not protect your content. Most home safes are simply built to keep honest people honest by avoiding easy temptation.
You need to consider the value of the jewelry when choosing a jewelry safe and decide on size vs security. Go ahead and give Locktight Security a call today for all of your home security and locksmithing needs! In what ways can a locksmith boost my home security? Call a local expert for these 6 services! What are the benefits of installing a home security system? How can I increase my business' security? Why install security cameras? Choose a local expert! What services does a locksmith provide?
When is time to change out the locks on my home? Our mission is not to sell products, but to provide solutions that help customers sleep well at night. We invest a lot of time and money in training our employees. No fancy sales talk or fumbling through a manual to find information — just straight-to-the-point information that you need to make the best decision. Our recommendations to you are based on the fact that we treat our customers like family.
Let us put our 60 years of experience to work for you. Read this article. Gun safes come in many different styles and sizes. Many are merely gun cabinets without fire or burglary protection. Construction thickness of metal, type of locking mechanism should be your first concern, followed by fire rating.
Gun cabinets have very thin metal similar to 16 or 18 gauge steel. A standard household hammer and large screwdriver can easily break into a gun cabinet. Gun safes use heavier and thicker 12 gauge steel in the body of the safe, and some use steel as thick as 10 gauge or more. Door construction is very important. TL Tool Resistant , and U. Fire ratings are often overlooked but should be one of your top considerations. We recommend that you purchase a minimum 1-hour fire-rated gun safe.
Safes with less than a 1-hour fire rating rarely survive a home or business fire. Many customers are misled into thinking that a fire-rated gun safe is adequate to protect your most important documents. Our recommendation is to look for a U. Even better is to purchase a small U. L-rated fire lock box that you can place inside the gun safe. Fireproof safes do a great job of protecting paper documents and even small amounts of cash from heat and smoke damage, however, fireproof safes use very thin gauge metal in the construction of the safe which makes them easier to attack for a burglar.
The metal is primarily used to hold the fire retardant material and can be easily punctured, cut, or sawed with simple hand tools.
DO NOT store high-value contents, such as large amounts of cash, jewelry, or precious metals, in a fireproof safe. Over the past 60 years, we have seen too many fireproof safes that have been easily broken into after the owners mistakenly thought the safe would be protected against a burglary attack.
These safes are engineered and designed to protect your valuables against both burglar attacks and fires. With these safes, you get the best of both worlds: fire and burglary protection. We find that many customers want to protect both important documents as well as high-value items. For these customers, a composite safe is a perfect solution. As your content value grows over a period of time, the safe you originally purchased some time ago may not be adequate to protect those contents.
Burglar ratings are a mix of manufacturer standards and Underwriters Laboratory burglar ratings. A general guideline for the type of safe versus content value is as follows you should always ask your Insurance Broker to contact Underwriters Laboratory for additional recommendations on content value storage :.
Many of our customers have outgrown their safes and wish they invested in something a bit larger. Often, customers are surprised to find that they can purchase a safe that is substantially larger for just a bit more money.
It used to be that floor safes offered burglary protection and some degree of fire protection provided the safe was installed in the floor surrounded by concrete. Floor safes are great for gold, silver, coins, jewelry, and other valuables because they are engineered to protect against burglary attacks. Most people assume floor safes will provide excellent fire protection because five sides of a floor safe are surrounded by concrete.
With the door exposed and made of ONLY metal, heat from a fire rapidly enters the safe. Therefore, most floor safes are not a good product to protect against the ravages of a fire.
There are no floor safe manufacturers we are aware of that list a fire rating or fire test.
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