Are You Thinking Of Getting a Safe? Read This

Do you have something precious—like a diamond or super-expensive jewelry—and want to keep it safe from people who would want to take it away from you?

To be honest, home safes are not the best options for items like these. An ideal place for your precious jewelry or other valuables is a bank. They offer more protection than home safes will .

But if you want to keep items such as tape, hard drives, DVDs, documents, certificates, and records that are near impossible to replace, home safes offer the type of protection you’re looking for.

While inexpensive compared to banks, they offer adequate protection for birth and death certificates, passports, important documents, electronic storage media, or even ammunition you’ve acquired to defend your home.

Choosing a home safe can be quite tricky, but if you know what to look out for, the process becomes easier.

For starters, you need to know the size of your safe. Stacking the items you’ll put in the safe in a neat pile and measure the size of the pile, both height and width is an easy way to determine the size of safe. Try adding a more height to the dimension because as time progresses, chances are, you will get more valuable documents for yourself and your family. You don’t want to leave the safety of the future documents to chance.

It’s most likely your main concern for choosing a safe is fire. Good thing most safes protect from fire and theft, some also throw in water protection into the mix.

Choosing an appropriate safe for your documents can depend a lot on where you live. For instance, if where you live is prone to flooding, your best option for a safe that is also water resistant.

In case of fire outbreaks, paper documents have to be protected from temperatures above 350 degrees. Go for a safe whose internal temperature will not exceed this temperature during a fire accident. However, tapes, hard drives, and other electronic storage media don’t survive temperatures above 150 degrees. If tapes are among the items that will go in the safe, look for safes that won’t rise above this temperature. This is easy to look for – the information is provided in the safe.

Most house safes are built to withstand burglars. Here’s what Consumer Reports says about safes: “Independent ratings for burglary resistance are less common for home safes than for ones made for commercial users, such as jewelry stores. To determine their burglary-resistance ratings, UL testers go at safes with tools, torches, and even explosives, Drengenberg says. A TL-15 rated safe, for example, can withstand an attack of at least 15 minutes using common tools.”

Keep an eye on the kind of locks or the locking mechanism your preferred safe comes with. It’s generally good to go for safes that come with two locks. These types of safes provide the best level of protection for thieves.

Home safes are basically of two types: the Portable and the Unmovable types. While there are portable options available, it’s better to go for safes that aren’t portable to lower the chances of theft – portable safes face a higher risk of being stolen since they are easily movable.

Protecting your valuables is an investment you are making, not just for the present but for the future. For this reason, you need to pick the best safe that falls within your budget. Opting for a low-grade safe when you could have afforded better is a bad idea. You might say “with luck nothing is going to happen”. But are you willing to depend on luck for the safety of your documents or storage media? Of course not. Murphy’s Law states that if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong. And a lot of things can go wrong. Make the investment.

Go online and make an effort to search for reviews on the dealers and manufacturers. More often than not, the opinions of others who have used the safe you are interested in will give honest reviews about the product. That way you will know what you’re getting into. Aside from the sales talks, features and benefits of the sale on sale, find out how it really performs in service.

Like any other type of locks, you can always try picking the lock. Lock picking can be very complex depending on how the lock mechanisms are being used. Many people can pick locks. But it is a tedious skill that isn’t an easy solution. Most saves like a gun safe have what is called a secure locking mechanism. This makes it more difficult and requires more tools to be able to successfully get in.

But just like any other lock picking skills, this needs to be practiced. A lot of bypass methods rely 100% on the locking bolts. Depending on the security level of the safe as well could play a factor. Higher and safes are meant to take impacts, so bypasses can’t take place. Another way people try to unlock their safe without the key is to try bypass methods. Such as manipulating the safe getting it to realign in the correct position. This doesn’t always work and could take a very long time to get it too. You also run the risk of dropping the safe or maybe even injuring yourself.

The third and most appropriate method to get into a safe with no keys is to call Brothers Locksmith. We are a trusted locksmithing service that has been around for over 32 years. We have had over 29,000 projects and delivered satisfying results to every single one. We strive for excellent customer service and won’t settle for anything less. You want the job done right and look like a professional did it.

We serve all of anthem AZ, Glendale AZ, Paradise Valley AZ, Peoria AZ, Phoenix AZ, Scottsdale AZ, Sun City AZ, and Tempe Az! Our main priority would be our customer service to you! On top of our locksmithing services, we also offer home and office security services!

If you need more information about making a choice on what safe to buy or need professional help with safe installation, don’t hesitate to contact us.