Protecting your valuables is not a new idea. People has always wanted to keep things important to them safe. Even pirates buried their treasure to keep it out of the hands of others. If you don't want to dig a hole in the backyard to hide your important items, you might want to consider having a safe installed in your home.They serve several purposes and can range from very simple to very complicated.
Providing Security in Several Ways
A safe provides security for the items inside but not just from theft. Most modern safes are also fire resistant, water resistant, and shock resistant. They are often still secure after a major disaster like a fire, flood, or storm, sometimes even with the home they are in is completely destroyed. While theft is often the first thing people think of when you mention a safe, they really provide peace of mind for the owner.
Levels of Security
When you start to consider having a safe installed in your home, talk to local locksmiths about what they offer. They can typically install everything from small safes with just a combination lock to much larger safes with more features like biometric locking systems that are very hard for anyone other than the owner to defeat. You can decide what is best in your situation after discussing the options. Keep the size of the safe in mind as you consider your purchase as well. If you buy a large, intricate safe but it won't fit in the location you wanted to put it, replacing it with something different may mean starting back at square one.
Fire and Water Resistance
A good, secure safe is great but if water can get in, then what you have is a box of valuables that can still be damaged. The same is true of a safe that does not provide fire or thermal protection. Look closely at the options for water and fire resistance when you start shopping. If your home is completely destroyed by a fire or other disaster, sometimes what survives in the safe is critical documents and items to get you started in the rebuilding process.
What Should Be In The Safe?
A safe is more than a place to store money or jewels. It is a great place to store valuable documents like birth certificates, insurance paperwork, life insurance information, or the deed to your property. Anything that you do not want to lose can be stored inside the safe so that it can be quickly retrieved later if needed. Yes, you can store jewelry and other items in the safe too, but think of that new safe as a vault for what is important to you not just what is worth a lot of money.
Contact a locksmith, like Bob's Lock & Key, for more help.
