What to Consider Before Purchasing a Home Safe

Home safes can be extremely useful when it comes to protecting and securing your valuable belongings and important papers. However, before you make the investment, it’s important to consider a number of elements to ensure you’re doing the right thing.

In this article, the home security experts at eSafes will explain what you need to consider before buying a safe for your home.

Space

Remember to measure the area in which you’re planning to place the safe. Check that the box will not obstruct access to any part of a room or to any entrances or exits.

If you’re planning on purchasing a larger safe, you should also think about how it can be transported upstairs or through doors. Measure door frames and inform the safe provider of any obstacles that may increase the difficulty of getting your safe delivered and installed.

Security

A safe should not be in a position that is too prominent or accessible. We recommend placing it somewhere that is not visible to members of the public passing outside.

Make sure you can keep your safe in a place to which you regularly have quick, easy access, such as your home office. You should also think of measures to avoid leaving the keys in an easy-to-reach place or writing the access code anywhere it may be visible to unauthorised individuals.

Users

Who will be allowed to use the safe? Think about the family members and visitors to your home who you will trust with access to your security box. Try to prevent sharing access information with too many people as this will help you to avoid it being accidentally shared.

This decision will help you to determine what type of safe you’ll get - key lock, code, combination or biometric - as it’s easier and safer to share codes with multiple people than to hand out numerous keys that may be lost.

Features

What do you need your safe to do? Are you likely to need a fireproof or waterproof safe? Will you be storing paper inside? What about data storage devices? Would you like to be able to set a “lockdown” period that renders the safe inaccessible for between 1 and 48 hours?

There are all kinds of specialist options to choose from to ensure your safe performs exactly as you need it to.

Budget

Finally, you need to consider what you can sensibly afford. There are a number of smaller, simpler safes that cost little but are still very high in quality - so you can save money by avoiding safes with features you don’t need.

There is also the option to purchase a refurbished safe. eSafes restores high quality used security boxes to be like new, so you can benefit from a perfectly functional second hand product that is still as safe and insurable as the day it was made.

For further advice regarding purchasing a home safe, contact the team at eSafes today via info@esafes.co.uk.