With technological, manufacturing, and engineering costs ever going down as they have been, home safes are becoming increasingly affordable, and available. There is a wide range of styles and types of safe available for home security, some of which we will look at here.
One of the most important reasons for wanting a safe is for a place to safely store firearms. Pistols and rifles are best kept in a safe place, away from the hands of children and burglars alike. When storing guns in the home, a safe really is the only sensible and safest option. In some states and countries, storing guns in securely locked gun safes is a mandatory requirement of gun ownership. Along with the added safety, use of gun safes to secure your rifles and handguns provides considerable peace of mind.
If you are not after a full-scale safe, but instead, merely a secure place to store small items of value such as cash, identity documents and passports, jewelry, or keys, then you may wish to consider diversion safes. Diversion safes are lockable containers that are designed to mimic the appearance of common household items. You can find diversion safes that look exactly like a book, a rock, a soda can, a jar of peanut butter, or a plant pot. How many burglars do you imagine stop to do some gardening, or make themselves a peanut butter sandwich while robbing your house? How often have you heard of a burglar being caught because he got stuck in a good book at his victim's house? Diversion safes provide a clever and very inexpensive way of securing small items.
If you want something of a step up from diversion safes, then consider a hidden wall safe. A wall safe can be hidden with minimal effort behind a painting or similar fixture. However, any burglar who is checking for a safe will check for exactly this. Therefore, if you're willing to pay a little more initially for installation, you can have a wall safe cunningly hidden with an outer door made to match the wall it is recessed in.
Another similar approach comes in the form of floor safes. Installation of a floor safe - normally involving excavation of concrete - can be very expensive, however, the result is usually a secure, concealed safe, that is attackable only from the door, which in a safe, tends to be the sturdiest face, and which is afforded a good deal of fire resistance due to its placement.
Electronic safes are becoming increasingly available also. Both electronic combination safes, and biometric safes, which scan the fingerprints of the key holder to provide access, can be bought for less than $200.
There are a number of quality manufacturers producing consumer home safes today, and fortunately, all of them have a product range that covers every price point. Starting as low as $15 for small diversion safes, you can go right up to massive $5,000 explosion resistant fire safes. Brinks and Sentry safes both offer a good range in this area.
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