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Choosing a home safe

Choosing a home safe

Even if the room has a very strong door with reliable locks, you should choose a special, secure place to store documents, securities and money. A safe will do just fine with protection. Before purchasing it, you need to determine what content it will be used for. For example, to store personal documents, you should purchase a fire-resistant model, for money and jewelry you will need a burglar-resistant product.   

Choosing a safe for a house or apartment is not an easy task. It is important that the product is reliable and at the same time does not spoil the interior. The best option is a completely inconspicuous safe. It is necessary to take into account the characteristics of the room in which it will be installed, as well as the number of things for which it is intended to be stored. It is also worth paying attention to fire and burglary resistance.  

How to choose the right safe for your home - types of designs

Valuables can be equally affected by theft or fire. Therefore, when deciding which safe to choose for an apartment, you need to think over which fears are greater. Based on this, you should select from products:

●     Fire resistant. Most often, these models are purchased in order to store personal documents, heirlooms and photographs, which can also be of value to robbers. The safe is able to protect the contents from temperatures that can reach several hundred degrees. During production, refractory foam concrete is placed in the space between the inner and outer walls. Due to its fine-pored structure, the material has a low thermal conductivity. To ensure the fire-resistant properties of the door, use a thermal lock or heat-insulating gaskets, which expand during heating. In a fire-resistant safe, the contents are protected from flame for 30-60 degrees. This time is usually sufficient to call firefighters and extinguish the fire. Depending on your goals, you can, with the help of advice from our experts, choose the most suitable option from the LFS 30 P, LFS 60 P lines.         

●     Burglary resistant. To improve burglary resistance, the space between the walls of the safe is filled with heavy, high-strength concrete. For additional reinforcement, reinforcement is performed using metal, granite chips or corundum. That is why such products weigh more. Burglary-resistant products are more often bought up to 3 protection classes, the characteristics of which depend on the wall thickness. Reliable locks are used in the equipment of the products. If you intend to store very valuable things, experts recommend connecting an additional alarm, thanks to the alarm signal after entering the room or trying to break into the safe, a patrol will come to the address.

There are also fireproof models. They are expensive, but they combine two functions at once. It should be borne in mind that usually such safes are able to provide both a minimum and a quite decent level of protection - it depends directly on the class of the selected model (products for the 3rd class are on sale, inclusively).

Reliable home safes - choosing a lock

One of the most important elements of any protection is the locking mechanism. Before choosing a safe for your home, you need to choose a lock. Mechanisms are:

●     Key. A lever lock is used. No code required to open, just a key.

●     Code mechanical. To open the safe, just enter the code and turn the knob. It is usually used for storing things that do not need to be taken out all the time.

●     Code electronic. Also opens with code. If the digital combination is forgotten, you can use the master key.

●     Biometric. To open the storage, just put your finger. Scanning takes place in seconds, after which the door opens.

●     Combined. These systems include 2 different types of locking elements, thereby increasing the degree of protection.

For maximum reliability, experts recommend combining several options for locking mechanisms.

If you cannot decide which safe to choose for your home, just contact the Griffonsafes online store staff by phone, who will help you choose the best option. 

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