01-04-2010, 04:29 PM
Yes.... what kind of safe did you get? What sort of combination might one put on such a safe? What time are you typically away from home...?
Incidentally, food for thought:
Wall safes -- safes embedded into your wall. They bolt into the structure of the house and can't be removed short of axes or power tools. Most are very shallow, to fit within the drywall, but are good for holding guns. I dunno that I'd buy one to store gold, though, since the ones I've seen didn't look terribly secure. I'm sure you can get the typical movie villain wall safes too but I think those are pretty rare, because who really has a 1' deep space in their house where they can mount the thing without it sticking into the next room or outside?
Floor safes -- safes embedded into your floor. These are actually dug into your concrete foundation, plopped down and covered over with cement. There's no way to remove them short of a jackhammer. There's a lot more size variety than the wall safes and they're more secure. Expensive to install, though.
Free standing safes -- aside from little safes that are literally free standing, you can get ones that bolt into walls or floors and are thus hard to remove by burglars. Additionally they tend to be extremely heavy since they are armored all around (whereas the floor safes are relatively light -- only the door is armored because the rest is embedded in concrete, and wall safes aren't overly heavy either since they seem more for convenience and to prevent idle tampering than to actually repel a dedicated burglar who knows how to use an axe).
The other advantage of wall and floor safes is that you can more easily hide them. Some are designed to help stay hidden. The other advantage of the free standing safe is you can take it with you when you move without leaving behind more damage than the safe was worth.
Incidentally, food for thought:
Wall safes -- safes embedded into your wall. They bolt into the structure of the house and can't be removed short of axes or power tools. Most are very shallow, to fit within the drywall, but are good for holding guns. I dunno that I'd buy one to store gold, though, since the ones I've seen didn't look terribly secure. I'm sure you can get the typical movie villain wall safes too but I think those are pretty rare, because who really has a 1' deep space in their house where they can mount the thing without it sticking into the next room or outside?
Floor safes -- safes embedded into your floor. These are actually dug into your concrete foundation, plopped down and covered over with cement. There's no way to remove them short of a jackhammer. There's a lot more size variety than the wall safes and they're more secure. Expensive to install, though.
Free standing safes -- aside from little safes that are literally free standing, you can get ones that bolt into walls or floors and are thus hard to remove by burglars. Additionally they tend to be extremely heavy since they are armored all around (whereas the floor safes are relatively light -- only the door is armored because the rest is embedded in concrete, and wall safes aren't overly heavy either since they seem more for convenience and to prevent idle tampering than to actually repel a dedicated burglar who knows how to use an axe).
The other advantage of wall and floor safes is that you can more easily hide them. Some are designed to help stay hidden. The other advantage of the free standing safe is you can take it with you when you move without leaving behind more damage than the safe was worth.