Home Safes

How To Select a Home Safe?

The first place to start when trying to determine the best home security safe for you is to ask yourself what you need to secure inside it? Is it Jewellery, Cash, Documents or a mixture of all three?

Once you have decided on this, we can then start to narrow down the selection of options in choosing the best house safe for you. The easiest way to narrow down your search is to focus on the following areas, Cash/Valuables Rating, Locking Type and Size of the safe.

Why should you Buy a Safe for Home?

In the today’s current market the value of personal items and belongings is ever increasing. Home security is always important to any person or family so making sure that your home and belongings are secure is paramount for peace of mind.

Leaving valuable items such as jewellery, watches, diamonds and cash unsecured is a huge risk as often these items are irreplaceable. House safes provide security protection for these items when not in use.

Home safes are also ideal for a small business as there is a good range of sizes to choose from along with providing excellent protection for a security safe.

Cash / Valuables Rating – 

With the cash and valuables rating, the valuables rating is always ten times the amount of the cash rating. For example –

£1,000 Cash / £10,000 Valuables

If you were to choose this insurance rating for your home safe then this would allow you to store up to £1,000 in cash along with up to £10,000 in valuables such as watches and jewellery at the same time. It is important to select the appropriate insurance cover as over time you may want to store more items within your home safe.

Examples of the Insurance Ratings available on Simplysafes are as follows –

·        £1,000 Cash / £10,000 Valuables

·        £2,000 Cash / £20,000 Valuables

·        £4,000 Cash / £40,000 Valuables

·        £6,000 Cash / £60,000 Valuables

·        £10,000 Cash / £100,000 Valuables

·        + More

·       Naturally as the cash and valuables rating goes up the higher the security protection and quality of the safe increases. Which is ideal if you want to protect your valuables from burglary or theft from intruders in your house.

We recommend to buy a safe with a higher rating than the amount you are initially planning on storing in it. Sometimes insurance companies may have additional requirements on the maximum cash or valuable rating.

Also consider if you wish to protect the contents from burglary, fire damage or perhaps both. If you would like to purchase a home safe with both burglary and fire protection included then see our available range here.

What about a Fire Rating?

If you are looking to store important documents securely in a safe then having a fireproof rating as a requirement is something we can provide at Simplysafes. We have a great selection of fireproof safes to choose from that have protection ranging from 30 minutes up to 120 minutes.

All the fireproof safes available also have a cash and valuables insurance rating included on them.

We provide an excellent range of safes for the home from brands such as Burton, Chubbsafes, Phoenix and Securikey.

Where to put Your Safe?

The location of your safe in your home is almost as important as the buying of your new safe. We would recommend choosing a place where the safe is out of sight and hidden away.

Normally our customers prefer the safe to be installed into a cupboard or underneath the stairs. This will mean that the area maybe darker but we can provide an interior light so you can then see your contents easier.

At Simplysafes we offer great advice on the best places to keep your personal belongings and valuables safe. If an intruder was to enter your home or property they are limited to the time they have in searching for your possessions.

If you are planning to install the safe yourself, you do not need to remove the carpeted floors as the safe you have can go on top of the carpet or flooring to provide a better overall look.

The placement or the installation of your safe in a hidden part of your house or business is always worth thinking over so that they are not easily accessible. Please read our installation page for more information on the process of installing a home safe.