Guide to home Safes

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Safe is a wise investment to keep small and valuable items like jewelries. It’s a much better alternative to hiding it as experienced burglars know where to look.

All good safes will have UL (Underwriters Laboratories) ratings and it rates the level of protection of a safe. These ratings determine how fire-resistant and durable a safe is. It also indicates whether a safe can survive a 30-foot impact, which simulates a fall of three stories. In a fire, a safe may fall through the floor, break open, and spill the contents you are seeking to protect.

Class C Safe	Protects paper documents for up to 1 hour at temperatures up to 1700°F
Class B Safe	Protects paper documents for up to 2 hours at temperatures up to 1850°F
Class A Safe	Protects paper documents for up to 4 hours at 2000°F.

Below are some of the things to take into consideration before getting a safe.

	1) Size Safes are a long-term investment, it is important to get a sense for what you will need to protect, both now and in the future, before you choose a model. It can be helpful to have the measurements of the largest item you will place in the safe to get a sense for the minimum dimensions you can accept.
	2) Media safes Media safes are safes that are specifically designed to protect disks and other audio/visual equipment such as CDs and cassette tapes because they are more fragile than paper documents. Diskettes, for example, can be ruined easily and require humidity below a certain level. Because of the special requirement needed, media safes tend to be very expensive.
	3) Safe installation Make sure the safe is embedded into something that is not easily carried away. Depending on the size of the safe, a small safe can sometimes be carried away by the burglars to be crack somewhere else. A safe should be installed into the wall or the floor. For maximum effect, place the safe in concrete, the safe will not only be highly burglar resistant but will also be beyond the reach of most fires. This is a slightly expensive method but for a less expensive method, bolt a safe to the floor.
	4) Locks Cheaper safes come with locks that are not particularly effective against an experienced burglar but for greater security, opt for electronic and digital locks that can cost up to $350 but comes with the guarantee that the codes are nearly impossible to crack.
	5) Price Buy a safe that suits your needs. There’s no point buying huge safe just to store a few documents. In most cases, a class B or C safe is fine for adequately protecting irreplaceable papers.

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Guide to home Safes