Torino Safes

Cash Rating = £3000

Plate Safes

Cash Rating = £1,000

Floor Safes

Floorboard Safe

 

Department 11

What is a Safe?
Many people consider a safe to be little more than a box with a lock on it. In fact, a safe is a unit designed to keep unauthorised people OUT. For this reason, it is vital that care is taken with combinations and keys - a good quality safe with no keys is an almost impenetrable barrier, possibly with your valuables inside.
Most safes are security rated according to how much money an insurance company will allow you to keep in them overnight - a low quality safe will be unrated, a domestic safe is usually rated at £500 to £1000 and a small commercial unit will have a rating of between £1000 and £3000. For more secure units we are able to specially order safes which will give a cash rating of upwards of £50,000. For storage of valuables, most insurance companies will allow you to keep anywhere up to ten times the cash rating (i.e. up to £10,000 in a domestic safe). It is always best to check with your insurance company BEFORE purchasing and fitting a safe, as mistakes can prove to be expensive.
Very few domestic safes offer fire protection as the space taken for insulating materials can be prohibitive (safes tested for 30 minutes usually need at least 50mm of protective material all around them). Storage of computer media requires very specialist equipment for which we can obtain details on request.

‘Real’ safes come in five varieties...
- FREESTANDING safes are heavy duty units which offer maximum protection when correctly installed and bolted into position.
- PLATE safes are similar to freestanding safes but are of lighter construction.
- WALL safes are designed to be fitted within the wall. The security of these units is in the door as the carcass is designed to be housed within brickwork.
- UNDERFLOOR safes are designed to be concreted into the floor. The security of these units is in the door as the carcass is designed to be housed within concrete.
- FLOORBOARD safes are a specially designed unit for fitting between the joists of a wooden floor.