Value Safes

Most people are looking for a small safe with good fire protection.  This Hollon Two Hour  fireproof safe is a step up from a “starter” safe or what could be known as a one hour fireproof home safe.  This safe is a little bit larger than a home safe but is two hour fire rated and has thicker walls and a thicker door than a home safe.  This can be bolted down and comes with a shelf and a drawer for easy storage.  If you just have a few things you want to be kept safe and don’t think you will be growing substantially in the future, this Hollon HS-610E is the perfect safe for you.

A very popular item is a hidden safe or diversion safe.  While they look pretty cool and we think how easy it would be to get away with hiding our precious items in them, I personally am not all for these types of safes.  While these might be great for small items or a very limited amount of valuables, they are not secure for large amounts or a high amount of value.  Thieves look on the internet for the most common places to look for valuable items and the best things to look for.  The internet provides a large amount of knowledge on anything you want to know - you just must search for it and read. These safes will be targeted by thieves and people will be devastated.

If you really want a safe to protect your items - do your research and buy a good safe that will protect your items.  Look for something that is fireproof as well as the security level that is needed for your items.  These diversion safes do not provide you fire protection and don’t allow you to hide large amount of items.  The most secure thing you can do is get a secure safe AND bolt it down.  I can’t stress enough of the fact that your safe must be bolted down.  While it is a proven fact that burglars don’t stay in your home very long - which means if your safe is bolted down properly, this will frustrate the burglars and they will move on.

Looking for a gun safe?  It takes a lot of research and work on your part to find a good gun safe that suits your needs.  Some of it relies on the information the manufacturer gives you and some of it relies on customer service and asking the right questions. This Hollon RG-16 Repulic Series gun safe is simply amazing.  I was very skeptical about these gun safes before I saw them.  I sure heard a lot of good stuff about them - but the amount of good information I hear about safes is always ongoing.  My jaw dropped when I saw these safes.  They are absolutely a beautiful safe.  They are made very well and they are very sturdy.  The tan interior goes very well with the black exterior and looks very sharp.

I would recommend this gun safe to anyone looking for a gun safe.  It has adjustable and removable shelving on the right hand side and gun racking on the left hand side with a shelf on top.  While this safe has an electronic lock it also has an override key which can not be duplicated - so breaking in via the key hole is a very hard thing to happen.  The overall steel gauge is 3 on the door and 9 on the body - how amazing!  You don’t find steel gauge this thick on most gun safes without paying a couple thousand dollars for these.

Do you have a few small items you would like to keep safe and want to keep them hidden? A wall safe is your best bet then.  A wall safe gets its security from being hidden.  This is a smaller wall safe but perfect size to store a few jewelery items or small valuable items. Due to the smaller size of this safe, it is much easier to put a picture over or find some way to camouflage it.  The larger a wall safe is, the harder it is.  This Hollon WS-1014E wall safe is an excellent buy for someone looking to protect their valuables.

Hotel safes are great in settings in which users are going to be changing on a frequent basis.  It’s a comforting feeling to be staying somewhere that supplies a safe to lock your  important belongings up when you have to be gone.  This could be a headache for the owners if it was a safe in which the code was not easily reset like this hotel safe is.  With this Hollon HHS-715 the guests check out, the hotel safe is wiped fresh and a new code can be set once a new guest checks in.

Great Article on Safes.

Just wanted to take some time to point out a good article on safes.  It was published on http://ezinearticles.com/?Now-is-the-Time-to-Purchase-Safes&id=4331120 Anyway, it points out some really good points about safes and security. It is written to talk to the person that is hesitating about getting a safe in our current economic climate.  Its a good read.

Safes and other articles can also be found here and when needed I will point to others that have been also full of information.

We all think that when we get a safe that says it is certified against fire and/or theft we have a great safe right?  Unfortunately, that is not always the case.  I have run across many safes such as Sentry and First Alert models that say they are fireproof and burglar proof when they really aren’t.  If a safe is plastic on the outside, how do you expect it to stand up against a fire?  Common sense says it won’t.  Follow your gut instinct when purchasing a safe.  If you feel like it is a bad idea don’t get it.

Do your research!  I have went to Youtube many times and have seen lots of videos of safes getting broken into with no problems.  Just to see how easy it was to get into makes me cringe!  Check different blogs, reviews, videos, anything you can get your hands on.  A more informed person is much better than a non-informed person.

I ran across an article talking about ATM safes.  Many robbers think that these safes are easy to break into - they are made out of plastic.  On the contrary, these are very strong safes.  Many attempts have been made to break into these through many different means, the most popular dynamite.  Even I thought that dynamite would penetrate one of these safes.  Well, a criminal in Germany tried to blow up the ATM and in turn blew up half of the bank instead.  The one thing that survived the explosion was the ATM.  Think again criminals.  To anyone out there thinking about breaking into a safe - you really should give the safe the benefit of the doubt before you blow up the building, or worse, yourself.

There is a great video on how to program an electronic keypad on one of the Hollon Safe fire and burglary safes.  I found it on ValueSafes.com and it is short but covers the basics.  Take a quick peak at it. But note that this programing is only for the Hollon Safe Fire & Burglary keypad or the FB series. Video Be sure it looks like the keypad on the safe below.  If there is another keypad electronic lock you need help with I will do my best to get on here soon.

When people are looking to buy a safe, people really would prefer to be able to see it themselves, touch it, use the lock mechanism, etc. before they feel fully comfortable purchasing them.  Unfortunately, this is not always possible.  What’s the next best thing?  Talking on a phone?  Seeing pictures? How about watching a video on the safe?

A video, in my opinion, is the best idea yet.  A video shows you what pictures can’t.  You can see someone standing up by the safe or walking around it and you get a good idea of size by that.  This guy makes tons of videos about his safes and is very informative.  He explains the pros and cons of the safe and shows every part of the safe that you would be interested in, of course that is in my opinion.  You get to see the item how it is packed and looks before it ships to you.

 This video in particular  is shot at the warehouse and there is nothing staged about it.  You see other products behind the safe, you see the boxing and feet that come on the safe when it is shipped from over seas.  It is apparent these safes are good quality safes just by looking at the door with it open to see the thickness of the door.  If you want a more honest opinion about a safe, look for videos on the safe - it will show you a lot.