Personal safes for the home - which do you prefer? I'm looking to purchase a small personal security protected for my home....
I'm looking to purchase a small personal security protected for my home. I'd like to spend $80.00 or smaller amount, but I am willing to budge as high as $100.00 (we immature adults are on strict budgets. lol).
I would like something small, necessarily just life-size enough to hold an envelope of money, my passport, and some jewelry. Fire-proof is central as well. I'd prefer one near a combination or digital lock.
- Which brand of safe do you recommend?
- Do you prefer a desk drawer locked, or a small one that can be tucked away elsewhere?
- What other key things do I necessitate to be looking for before I brand name my purchase?
[[ I've posted this question elsewhere, my apologies, but I'm finding it unyielding to recieve any answers! Thanks for any input you may provide!]]
If they take battaries or not.. Mine is both.. and kind sure you get one hulking enough to put everything surrounded by.. I got mine at canadian tire.. for underneath 100.00.. check out your areas online classified ads for a used one..
you're lookin' @ spending at lowest possible $149.00
Here's what I found:
http://www.nextag.com/fireproof-lock-box...
oh Amazon has this document safe and sound for $30.00
http://www.nextag.com/Honeywell-298-Cubi...
Answers: In your price range, a Sentry brand protected is good. A $100 safe and sound is not much challenge to a determined burglar, but Sentry does in good health in fire test (again- for the money). You can greatly increase the security by bolting the undisruptive to the floor in a spot where on earth a thief would own trouble getting a pry bar underneath it. Don't waste money on any small sheltered if you are not going to bolt it to the floor- the thieves can freshly carry it home and break it at their hobby.
Skip a digital lock in a low-priced secure. They are easily defeated by prying bad the keypad and spiking with a freestyle. I am a locksmith who has open dozens of cheap digital safes this way. The desperate guys can figure it out, too.
The standard combination lock on a Sentry undisruptive is well designed, and frozen to "manipulate" without the combination.
Sentry also make a floor safe that can be installed within a concrete floor- These are easy to cast a shadow on, and more fire resistant than an ordinary box nontoxic. It takes some work to install it, but I meditate they are worth the effort. I own seen them for Dutch auction ay Home Depot in olden times. I once saw an installation where a guy bolted a galvanize garbage can to his garage floor, put a floor undisruptive in the rubbish can and filled the can next to concrete. When the lid was on it freshly looked like a litter can, and NO ONE is going to carry that home!