If you are in the market for a safe, chances are you don’t really know what to look for. Unlike many other products, most of us will only purchase one safe in a lifetime, so most people simply rely on industry professionals to glean information pertaining to their purchase. For those looking for a standard safe with well-balanced features, the TRTL-30×6 safe is your best bet. The abbreviation TRTL stands for “torch and tool resistant,” which is exactly what these safes are.
Numerous jewelers, financial institutions and other business utilize these safes to house there most valuable assets. All six sides of the safe are highly reinforced with concrete material and magnesium hardplates to withstand an attack or damage on any front. These safes are fireproof and feature a sleek façade, maintaining a professional appearance.
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.
It’s no surprise that people are growing increasingly brazen with their criminal acts. While it used to be a rarity that anyone’s house would be burglarized, it’s hard to find someone nowadays that doesn’t have some sort of theft story related to their homes. That’s why it’s important that we, as homeowners, take every necessary precaution to protect our homes and our families.
For some people, this means installing home security cameras. And for others, it means securing a number of alarm-sounding devices. After all, it doesn’t seem to be enough anymore that people lock their doors and windows. Now it seems necessary to use a window alarm, a door alarm, and a number of other home security devices in order to fully protect your home. For the best results, have some home protection devices that are visible to potential criminals. These can serve as effective deterrents for anyone considering breaking into your home. Even with these safeguards in place, you will also want to house your valuables in a safe.
My family moved to a quiet, suburban neighborhood about 10 years ago, when I first landed a job at a nearby plastics company. At first everything was fine and we made many new friends in the neighborhood. The area was so safe that we would occasionally leave our doors unlocked. Then the economy started going sour and budget motels and liquor stores started opening across the river.
Watching the local news one night, I was shocked to find out that a string of burglaries had been occurring just a few blocks from my home. I knew right then that it would be necessary to take action before anything bad happened to my family or our humble home. I went online in search of a home surveillance system and fireproof safes for our valuables.
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.
When we look at a safe we try to think of the weak points in a safe and figure whether it is worth our money. Instant common sense tells us that concealed hinges are a safe bet and don’t think about the cons that this poses. If you think about the structure of the safe, as the door closes there has to be room for the hinges to fold back into as the door closes.
This is very commonly the place in which many manufacturers don’t put any fireproofing. My father in law has Liberty Centurion Gun Safe with the concealed hinges. I was doing some checking on the safe and found what I was afraid of, that he had no fireproofing on that side of the safe. This little bit of area makes the entire safe non fireproof and a waste of money if you needed it for the fire protection. I was looking at Lowes the other day also, and found the same safe, but a newer model, with the same problem. The thin steel that the safe is made out of is easily penetrated into the area in which the hinges are located, which also makes it fairly easy to break into.Think twice about buying a gun safe with concealed hinges - they aren’t as safe as one might think!
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.
