Choosing the Best Gun and Home Safes
Although your house may have deadbolts, an alarm system, and other safety equipment, you should also have a safe. A safe is a good idea for any home for many reasons. Your other security measures might not be enough to keep a burglar out of your home. A safe will prevent them from stealing your valuables even if they get into your home. Fire can destroy everything inside a home in under an hour, no matter how many locks are on the door. Flooding is rare but should also be considered. In other words, there are many good reasons to have a safe. Firearms and other valuables can all be placed in safes.
Make sure you wait to buy the gun safe until you have examined all of the items that you would like to put inside. There are many sizes available when you buy a safe, and you want to be certain that your valuables will fit snugly inside. Most people use a smaller safe for their personal valuables because all of those things can safely fit within a few cubic feet. This size will fit jewelry, cash, and important papers like passports and your marriage license. Under the bed or in the closet are popular places to store a small safe like this one. You can also cover it with a cloth and use it as an end table. What a nifty way to keep your valuables safe and close at hand! You will need a considerably larger safe if you want to store firearms. Large closets and basements are preferable places to store a gun or fire safe. Storing your gun safe in the attic is not always a good idea because they are so heavy. Gun safes must be large enough to fit the firearms, extra ammunition, cleaning equipment, and safety equipment.
No matter how safe your home is on the outside, fire can do a lot of damage on the inside, and very quickly. Extreme heat can cause extra ammunition to explode, so fireproofing is absolutely necessary for a gun or home safe of any size. Fire is equally detrimental to important papers and precious jewelry, causing burning and melting in a a matter of seconds. Most safes are completely fireproof, so make sure that you do not get the one safe that is not. Along with fire retardant materials, the thickness of a safe can determine the safe's overall resistance to fire, as well as other tampering. Both traditional and newer locking systems are available for most safes, so you can choose whether you would like a mechanical lock or an electronic one. The last bit of security that you can add to your safe is the keeping the number of people who know the combination very small. Your children should not know the combination to the gun safe, and you should instruct them not to touch it unless you are assisting them. Your spouse should know the combinations to both your personal safe and your gun safe if you have one, because he or she might need to open the safe in an emergency when you are incapacitated or away.