Choosing a Home Safe
How Fire-Safe is a SentrySafe?
If you have valuables in your home that you want to protect from theft, then it is a good idea to get a home safe. Watches, jewelery, money, mobile phones, MP3 players and digital cameras may be valuable items that you want to protect. Valuable paper documents that you may want to protect may include passports, wills, birth certificates, priceless family photos, deeds and insurance papers. People today also have digital data that they consider valuable, and would want to protect. This digital data may be stored on USB drives, CDs, DVDs or memory sticks. This digital data may include digital documents, digital photos, MP3 music and email documents. For people who work from home, you will want to protect all your home business digital data and business documents.
Besides theft, the other main threat for your valuables is fire. Storing your valuables in a good home fireproof safe will give you peace of mind that your valuables are safe against both theft and fire. Always check that the home safe you intend buying has a credible fireproof rating. There are many types of fireproof home safes available today, and also many types of fireproof ratings are used – some of these rating lack credibility.
The Underwriters Laboratory (UL) is an organization that is responsible for testing safes to determine exactly how fireproof different makes and models of home safe are. You should preferably buy a home safe that has an Underwriters Laboratory (UL) rating. The UL rating specifies the external temperature in degrees Fahrenheit that a safe can withstand, and also how long a safe can withstand that temperature. For a home safe, you should ensure that the safe has a minimum UL rating of 1500 degrees Fahrenheit for half an hour – it typically takes firefighters ten minutes to put out a house fire, and a house fire normally burns with temperatures of up to 1500 degrees Fahrenheit.
The home safe brand that is considered the most reputable is SentrySafe. The popular SentrySafe Fire-Safe range of products offer excelling protection against fire, and the entry-level models have a UL rating of 1550 degrees Fahrenheit for half an hour. Digital media (such as CDs, DVDs, memory sticks or USB drives) can also be protected from fire by many safes in the SentrySafe Fire-Safe range of home safes. The SentrySafe range of safes also contain several waterproof models of home safe.
It is a good idea to buy a home safe that can be bolted to the floor or to the wall. This will prevent burglars from simply carrying the safe away to break into at their own convenience. Also, its a good idea to buy a safe with a larger capacity than your immediate requirements, as you never know what items you will need to secure in the future.
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