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Safes... What You Need to Know
There are many different types and sizes of safe on the market today. There is also a wise variety of safe designed for specific purposes such as fire safes and data safes. Safes can be divided into a few main categories:
Small domestic or hotel safes
Wall safes
Cupboard safes
Underfloor safes
Free standing safes
Data safes
Fire safes
Gun cabinets/safes
Safes are now rated under European standard EN1143. Within this standard safes fall into 3 categories for 0 to 2. These grades give the safe an insurance rating for both cash and jewellery.
Grade 0 £6000 cash, £60,000 jewelry
Grade 1 £10,000 cash, £100,000 jewelry
Grade 2 £17,500 cash, £175,000 jewelry
Higher grades do exist but these are used for specialist security applications. There are several mistakes commonly made when safes are purchased. Often the wrong type of safe is bought. The safe may be to small, it may be large enough at the moment but what about in a couple of years time? The importance of the location of the safe is often forgotten, it's pointless anchoring a safe to a plasterboard wall for example.
Things to Remember
What do you need the safe for. Protection from fire, theft, to store data or valuables?
Where will the safe go? Do you have a suitable site for the safe?
What sort of locking mechanism do you require, key ,combination or both?
Think ahead. Will the safe still be large enough a few years down the line?
