Thursday, January 30, 2014

Best Fireproof Safe 2014

If you have extremely valuable items, then you would probably be well advised to keep them in a bank safety deposit box. However, there are plenty of items that you will want to have handy - but which you would not want to have damaged by fire or flood.

Important papers, such as insurance certificates, passports, driving licences etc. will be much handier if you can keep them in the house. A fireproof safe should offer you enough protection to keep this type of documentation safely at home.

Any other valuables that you do have in your home will also be better off in a safe. In terms of security against theft, most home safes aren't able to offer any strong guarantees - but what they certainly will do is to slow down any robbery.

Most home safes will survive for at least fifteen minutes against attack using common household tools. The majority of burglars like to get into and out of a property as quickly as possible. It's quite likely that they will choose another, easier, option rather than wasting valuable time trying to crack open a safe - which they know will likely be full of documents for the reasons discussed earlier.

If you're choosing a fireproof safe for your family home, be sure to pick one that has been tested to UL standards. The tests will include a fire test and also a drop test.

The fire withstand test will measure how hot the inside of the safe gets during a fire. How high you can let this go will depend upon what you intend to store in the safe. Paper documents will be good up to about 350F. If you're going to be storing DVDs or other data media, you might want a safe that will limit the temperature to a lower value - say 125 - 150F.

The drop test may or may not be important for you. During a fire, buildings can be subject to collapse - or the floor may give way. If your safe is housed on one of the upper floors, it may fall all the wy to ground, or even basement, level. Clearly it needs to survive this and not burst open.

Here are some of the best fireproof safes 2014 for your info. See if there's anything there that would meet your needs.


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