Home security safes are an excellent idea whether or not you live in an area prone to crime. It is ideal for keeping sensitive personal or business documents secured as well as personal valuables such as jewelry, family heirlooms, and other small possessions. It is probably imperative for keeping your firearms secured—and away from accidentally harming your family—if you are a sportsman or a law enforcement officer.
In addition, those documents, valuables, possessions, and firearms get the added benefit of remaining, shall we say, safe in the event that unexpected fire damages or destroys most of the rest of your home.
Security experts often say that home security safes are imperative when buying and arraying home security system equipment. However, you then have to determine which among numerous offerings is the best safe for your home.
Unless you are very wealthy or run a high-powered, high-end, high-profit business from home, it is not very likely that you need a full-size vault-like safe installed. Even if you are a sportsman or a law enforcement officer, you need little more than a standard cabinet safe with two-layer or better steel construction and an easily changeable combination.
Commercial-grade home safes are probably the most reliable solution to your security needs involving your sensitive personal and/or business documents, your valuables, your family heirlooms, and other small possessions you fear losing in fire or burglary. Ideally, the door should be at least four and a half inches thick or better, the walls should be at least two and a half to three inches thick or better, and the fire endurance should be verifiable at temperatures up to 1750 degrees Fahrenheit. The problem is the expense. A commercial-grade home safe can cost you $900 or better for high quality construction and performance.
However, even a non-commercial grade home security safe should feature comparable protection against fire, including door seals that expand in heat, and three-to-four inch door thickness with two and a half inch or better wall thickness.
Wall safes are actually far less expensive—even a heavy-duty wall safe seems to average a $500-$600 price tag, and a standard duty model can cost you as little as $250-$300. They are easy to install and will survive fire damage to their walls, but make certain you install yours in a place where it is not seen easily by an intruder. In addition, remember always to change your combinations regularly.
Research into whether the safe you choose can be aligned to the remainder of your home security system equipment. Many safes come with their own alarms but if yours does not, you may want to see whether it can be tied to your home alarm or motion detection equipment before you buy and install it. Protecting your valuables includes protecting your home security system equipment—it may be your true most valuable possession.
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