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Fire Testing a SentrySafe

It’s recommended that you buy a home safe for your home if you would like to protect your valuable items from being stolen. Your valuable items may include jewelery, watches, money, digital cameras, mobile phones and MP3 players. Valuable paper documents that you may want to protect may include passports, wills, birth certificates, priceless family photos, deeds and insurance papers. Digital data (stored on CDs, DVDs, USB drives and memory sticks) today can also be considered valuable, and people will probably want to protect this digital data as well. This digital data may include digital documents, digital photos, MP3 music and email documents. For people who work from home, you will want to protect all your home business digital data and business documents.

Besides theft, the other main threat for your valuables is fire. Storing your valuables in a reputable home fireproof safe will give you peace of mind that your valuables are safe against both theft and fire. Always check that the home safe you intend buying has a credible fireproof rating. There are many types of fireproof home safes available today, and also many types of fireproof ratings are used – some of these rating lack credibility.

The organization that tests safes to determine exactly how fireproof different types of safes (from different manufacturers) are is the Underwriters Laboratory (UL). You should preferably buy a home safe that has an Underwriters Laboratory (UL) rating. The UL rating specifies the external temperature in degrees Fahrenheit that a safe can withstand, and also how long a safe can withstand that temperature. For a home safe, you should ensure that the safe has a minimum UL rating of 1500 degrees Fahrenheit for half an hour – it typically takes firefighters ten minutes to put out a house fire, and a house fire normally burns with temperatures of up to 1500 degrees Fahrenheit.

SentrySafe is one of the most reputable brands of home safe. The Fire-Safe range of products from SentrySafe offer excelling protection against fire, and the entry-level models have a UL rating of 1550 degrees Fahrenheit for half an hour. Digital media (such as CDs, DVDs, memory sticks or USB drives) can also be protected from fire by many safes in the SentrySafe Fire-Safe range of home safes. Some of the safes in the SentrySafe Fire-Safe range are also waterproof.

It is a good idea to buy a home safe that can be bolted to the floor or to the wall. This will prevent burglars from simply carrying the safe away to break into at their own convenience. It is recommended that you purchase a home safe with a capacity more than your current requirements, because you don’t know what items that you will want to secure in the future.

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