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Now that you have chosen the right safe for your purpose, which is very important, the next crucial step and just as equally important is choosing a good location for your home safes Melbourne, so you can provide maximum protection for your safe.
We often get asked by our customers what’s a good location for my home safes. We always suggest choosing an inconspicuous place, because most often than not, burglars are conscious of time. As soon as they break into your house, they know they are on a time limit. They want to get in quickly and quietly steal your valuables. And if they can’t find your safe and have to look hard, they will most likely leave empty handed. But if a burglar does happen to find your home safe and it’s a good solid sturdy safe, it usually is enough to deter criminals from attempting to try and crack your safe open as burglars don’t like to make noise.
Always make sure your home safe is bolted down. This is extremely important regarding its weight or size. Most high quality safes sold have anchoring holes provided either in the base or back of the safe. Sometimes a safe will have both being fixing holes in the floor of the safe and the wall of the safe at the back. These anchoring bolt holes allows permanent secure fixing of your home safe to the floor or wall. If a criminal does unlawfully break into your home and finds your safe, the first thing they usually do is try to move it so they can take it away to open at a later time without any threat of being caught. However, if the safe is bolted down and they realise it can’t be budged, they move on. Although heavy safes are great and very intimidating compared to smaller safes, they need to be bolted down, because thieves stop at nothing and are prepared to move a safe if they find one. However, if a home safe is securely bolted, it would be extremely difficult to move.
Don’t store your safe in a common place
Don’t choose a location for your safe where most people would look, for example, remember most people would hide their house key under their door mat or pot plant. All burglars would look there first. Choose a good location to hide your home safe somewhere or burglar will never suspect not a hiding spot where burglars routinely check and know valuables are often kept such as the master bedroom as most people keep jewellery, cash or valuables there or even a secure lockable jewellery box is not a good idea to keep your jewellery, precious metals or other items as there are obvious places a thief will look. So when you set out to find the best location to hide your home safes, some excellent locations are underneath the stairs, laundry area, cellar, behind a secret compartment, behind furnishing in a child room.
A good idea to assist you find a good hiding place for home safes in Melbourne is think what is the most unlikely place a safe would be.
Some safe experts believe in-floor safes concealed under the floor are ideal security safes, because they offer an extra line of defense, because they are virtually invisible as floor safes are hidden under the ground and offer concealment of your cash and valuables.
Some extra advice to consider before you have chosen your final place to store your home safe make sure the location has good ventilation, so avoid areas that are humid as this may cause moisture in your home safe, which can damage the content such data & media, paper documents, photos or computer discs as all of these items are sensitive to heat and humidity. If you purchase a certified safe with the highest and best fire rating, you can usually get the best home safes in Australia offers in quality brands such as Chubb safes, Diplomat safes, CMI safes, Ardel safes and Burg Wachter.
If you decide on a wall safe or under your floor safe you will have many options to choose where to hide it. For example, wall safes are a compact secret security compartment installed into a wall and they can be conveniently hidden behind such things as mirrors, paintings or furniture and because most in-wall safes are relatively small and don’t stick out from the wall. They are easily concealed, but normally can accommodate jewellery, cash or other small expensive valuables.
Wall safes are available with different locking options like key operation, electronic keypad or biometric fingerprint scanner. Under floor or floor safes on the other hand are installed underground and can be set in concrete flooring or they can be set under floorboards. In-floor safes have their door on top of the safe allowing you to open the top up without lifting the whole floor safe container up out of the floor. Floor safes can be hidden in various ways such as underneath a concrete floor and covered over with a rug or carpet and a small table or cabinet placed on top of the carpet or rug.
In-floor safes are available with a variety of locking types, including key locking, combination dial locking and digital keypad locking, where you use your own secret access pincode. It is important to keep in mind if you decide on the electronic digital on the floor safe, make sure it is not installed in an area that is prone to flooding.
Some mentionable safes are:
Chubb: Senator M1, Viper 10
Guardall: GS70e
Burg Wachter: Combiline
