There are a lot of additional steps that you can use to beef up your security. Naturally your priority is the safety of your family then your property. You also have to consider the safety of additional property aside from your residence. This type of property are those items that could be fully protected by the use of a quality home safe.

When looking at what protection a safe can offer you want to consider it for both fire and theft protection. The various safes that are on the market go through various types of testing. This is just one of the reasons why you want to make sure that you are buying your safe through a reputable supplier that is dealing in well known brand names.

Most individuals that are looking at safes have already made sure that they have good general security set up for their home when it comes to theft, so they are more concerned about the perils of fire and are looking at their safe for protection in this regard. So the fire ratings are what is important. It also depends on what you are going to store in the safe that will help you determine what fire rating you would need. If it paper documents then you may only need a safe that  will not get any hotter than 350 degrees internally. For other items like tapes for example then the temperature should not be able to go above 150 degrees. So as you can see some thought has to be put into the purpose of the safe when choosing one.

When it comes to the amount of time that the protection has to be in place usually it is for about 30 minutes. There are safes that afford longer protection but you need to determine if the extra cost for these is justified.

When it comes to burglary protection there are many different models and sizes of safes. What you want to focus on here is stalling the crook as long as possible from being able to steal your valuables should they get inside your home. Many people have their safes secured to the floor but even if you don’t a good quality safe is extremely heavy even when empty so it would take at least two crooks to carry it out of the house with any type of ease.