A few people think about choosing a safe, but only until there is an emergency, and valuable things or money will not be lost. Is it not better to take care of their integrity in advance and install a small and reliable storage at home?
Safe - not just an iron box
The choice of a safe depends on what requirements you are presenting to it, and what you want to store in it, because it is useful not only for money and jewelry, but also for storing important documents, potent drugs. Owners of weapons, according to the law, have a house of his own.
All safes are divided into:
- burglar resistant, which in turn is assigned a class from I to ХV( according to Russian GOSTs up to ХII),
- fire-resistant, capable of protecting documents and money from fire,
- fire-resistant, universal, the price for which is much higher.
In the market for household purposes models I-III class are sold. The class of burglary resistance is determined by the thickness of the steel and the type of lock, which also assigns the degree of reliability A or B. For example, class I safes must have walls made of high-quality steel with a thickness of at least 3 mm and a lock no worse than Type A. Non-Resistant Class 0 or H0 below zero.
Whatever the lock, it is worth choosing a storage with protection from its sawing.
By way of installation, safes can be built in, which are mounted in the wall and fixed with cement mortar and anchor bolts, and furniture. In built-in metal cabinets, protection is only reinforced on the front panel, since the remaining parts are blocked by a wall, you can hide the door behind a picture, a mirror or a panel that merges with the wall. To extract them, it takes a lot of time, and the noise will be strong. The furniture safe is installed faster, without unnecessary debris and noise. It is, as a rule, smaller in size, and this is one of its advantages. Hidden in the back of the cabinet, behind things, it's not easy to find such a repository. Stand-alone models, often positioned as office models, are fixed with anchor bolts to the floor, which, together with a large weight, complicates the theft of the storage itself along with the contents.
Locks can be:
- key, the most reliable and common of which is a back-up,
- mechanical code, both with the ability to change the code, and without it,
- electronic, the code of which can be periodically changed.
The security price of
The price of a safe consists of its size, installation method, lock type, security class and, of course, a trademark. The most economical option is a built-in non-hard-proof safe. Among domestic producers, VALBERG, AIKO, Euro and Practitioner are worthy of quality. Also available for the price models of Ukrainian plants Griffon and Parity-K.If reliability and impeccable quality of locks and accessories are needed, it is worth investing in Italian devices from Technomax or Stark, Slovak Safetronics, French Fichet or Finnish Kaso.
The prices for H0 models produced by Russian factories, for example AIKO T-17, start from 1.6 thousand rubles, a similar model, but with an electronic lock will cost 2.5 thousand. The production of nameless Chinese plants is even cheaper, but it's not worth taking seriously.
A small furniture safe from Ukraine Griffon M.25.K will cost about 5 thousand. A similar model from Technomax will cost about 8 thousand. A more reliable I class device has a price of about 8-8.5 thousand from Russian manufacturers. It is worth remembering that the more value values that will be stored in the safe, so it should be more expensive.
Safe: what do you need?
Before buying, you need to estimate the approximate amount of things that will be stored, especially for document folders and long-barreled weapons, like hunting rifles. For a house, they usually limit themselves to a class I security lock( or even without a class), the price of which is lower. Professional crackers will not stop and more perfect protection, and ordinary thieves are not in the teeth and devices of the I class. If the goal is that children do not get to the weapon, and casual guests to jewelry, then you can safely stop at the furniture safe class H0 and 0, which, in fact, are weighted and securely locked metal "boxes".
Home safes, usually less reliable than office and bank, but also cheaper. If the house stores large amounts of cash or especially important documents, it is worth choosing a small office model with a class of burglar resistance not lower than II.If the repair is not yet completed or just planned, it is better to buy the built-in storage, it will take up less space, and as a protection - more reliable. Inveterate hunters can install a beautiful rifle safe, which will serve as a decoration for the cabinet, for example, VALBERG Sokol( about 6 thousand rubles.) Or universal VALBERG Safari( about 23 thousand rubles.).
You need a safe house not only for Uncle Scrooge, but for ordinary citizens who care about the fate of expensive things. It must, however, be remembered that in itself it does not guarantee 100% of the preservation of values. This device works reliably only in conjunction with the alarm system and compliance with general safety requirements.