Floor Safes

Why Floor Safes Give You The Greatest Protection

Floor safes are the most effective way to protect your valuables against potential fire damage, and they are also highly effective against intruders. By installing your safe in the floor, you eliminate most of the dangers of it coming into contact with burning walls, or wooden fixtures and fittings, and you give it the greatest possible chance of remaining intact. If it is a safe manufactured to a high standard it should survive in any case, but when you are dealing with security it makes sense to cover as many bases as you possibly can.

Safes are installed in both commercial and residential buildings so that valuables can be protected, and the type of installation used will usually be different in each case. In a commercial building, there is a need for more people to have access to the safe and its contents, often on a day to day basis. This limits to a significant degree the lengths which can be gone to to keep the safe hidden and out of sight. It is often a good idea to have more than one safe so that items which do not need to be constantly accessed can be kept where they can only be accessed by company owners.

One of the most important reasons for installing a safe under the floor is the extra protection this can give you against fire. This will mainly be true if you can install the safe in a space between concrete, ideally embedding it into the floor completely. If the safe is stored between wood there will still be the risk of it being caught up in the conflagration, although this will still give you more protection than you would get with a wall safe. Heat and fire naturally rise, so the safest place is below floor level.

There are many ways in which floor safes can be accessed, from the traditional combination lock to the newest biometric technology which uses fingerprints. The best system to use will depend on how many people need access to the safe and its contents, and how often they need to enter the safe. Of course, budget considerations can never be overlooked, and the new fingerprint technology will fall in price over time until it is within the reach of more people and their budgets. It is also possible to have a system where a safe can be partially opened, for example to deposit money through a slot, but not opened enough to remove anything. This is ideal for businesses which take cash.

It is difficult to conceal a commercial safe if several different members of staff need access to it, which is why more than one safe is often a good idea. In the home, when access will only be needed occasionally, it is much easier to conceal the safe. In fact, it is much easier to conceal a safe in a floor than it is to conceal a wall safe. The basement of a building can have several layers of flooring with the safe located underneath.

To gain the highest degree of protection from floor safes they need to be fitted in such a way as to be virtually impossible to remove. Make sure that when you buy a safe you buy the installation at the same time, or if this is not possible at least make sure that you know a competent installer who can do the job for you. Any safe is only as good as its installation, and a solid embedding of the safe into the concrete can give you the highest degree of protection from floor safes.

Elizabeth Rowley

 

 

 

 

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