The Top Five Safe Options for Your Home

There are numerous ways to store your cash or valuables securely within your home, and one of the most effective and popular options is the use of a safe. Usually taking the form of a durable and well protected metal box, many households have their own safe that they utilise and protect in their own unique way. You can choose your preferred locking mechanism, the look and size of your model and even the location in which it can be stored to ensure maximum safety. Esafes, a company that specialises in highly effective security systems, has compiled a list of their top five options when it comes to safes. Take a look below to see which kind of model would best suit your requirements.

Key Safe

This traditional form of security safe has proved its worth time and time again throughout the centuries. A sturdy, solid steel box complete with access keys, it’s a simple and straightforward option to help you ensure that your belongings are perfectly safe. Remember to keep your key in a very secure place at all times!

Electronic Safe

Many safes that come with a key lock are also available with the alternative of an electronic lock. This type of safe can be accessed using a PIN code, meaning you aren’t at risk of losing any key. However, it’s vital to remember your code and to take care who you share it with. Writing it down on a piece of paper can be as unsafe as losing a key, so you need to work out your own method of memorising it. Electronic safes often come with manual override keys in case you lock yourself out, however!

Under Floor Safe

You can ensure additional security for your belongings by keeping your safe somewhere extremely difficult to discover. One excellent option is to embed it in the floor itself, and this is precisely what an under floor safe is designed for. It can be placed almost anywhere in the house, but inside closets, cupboards, under trunks or in areas of low traffic within your home are all recommended options.

Media Safe

The great thing about a media safe is that it has been designed specifically for the purposes of storing your electronic goods. The inside of this particular model of safe is usually treated or padded to ensure none of the bodies or screens of your equipment become damaged, and the dimensions are designed to fit all sizes of laptop with additional space for other devices.

Double Height/Large Safe

 If you have larger items or a greater volume of valuables you need to store, two options are available to you. You can either obtain a number of safes and divide items between them or, if anything for which you require storage space is too big to fit in a regular sized safe (which usually measures somewhere in the vicinity of 200 x 300 x 180 mm) you can opt for a model with more room inside. Some safes are available at twice the height of a regular model, but with similar width and depth dimensions so they don’t take up excessive floor space. They are also available with a choice of manual and electronic locking systems.

Depending on the make and model you choose, safes are available in a variety of styles and sizes, and many come with additional features such as soft lining to prevent your items becoming scratched or damaged, and override systems to prevent you from becoming locked out. Some security system manufacturers, such as Chubb and Yale, are particularly well regarded due to their high standards and the exemplary quality of their products, so it’s worth checking the ratings and accolades of the safe you’re interested in to find out how it should be expected to perform.

Esafes stocks a wide variety of quality assured security products, so you can browse their site safe in the knowledge that any item you select has been manufactured to a superb standard and is more than suitable for purpose. If you would like to discuss your options with a member of their team, or you would like some advice about an item they have already supplied to you, all you need to do is call 0800 783 2328 today or email them via info@esafes.co.uk. Their offices are open 24 hours a day, 7 days per week, to ensure that there is always someone at the end of the phone if you run into any security trouble.