Home security system is the good choice and good investment to bring in the home as if you want to protect or secure your valuables
. Many people have alarms system in their homes and additionally they want the added security by having home security safes. Unluckily the consumers do not know the actual difference between the different types of safes and they place their valuables in the risk.
There are many types of home safes are available in the market and each one is designed in order to give different type of protection. Fore example document safes are used to protect cash, will, deeds, tax information and other type of important documents and these types of safes are also known as fire resistant document safes as they protect your important documents from fire. These types of fire resistant document safes are rated according to their capability of standing against the very high temperature or from fire.
They are divided into three classes and these classes are Class A, Class B, Class C. class A is the type of safe that will be used to protect the important papers for more than four hours and they can withstand under the temperature of 1500 degree centigrade. Class B can protect the important documents for more than two hours and it can withstand up to the temperature of 1600 degree centigrade. Class C can protect your valuables for only one hour and withstand up to the temperature of 1500 degree centigrade. The media contents such as video tapes, CDS, pictures and other plastic items are protected by using fire resistant media safe.
The safes that are used to protect your valuables from thieves are burglar resistant safes and the ratings of these safes are according to how long it takes to break into safe and the type of methods are used to attack. There are home safes that will provide the both security safe and fireproof safe protection. The most important thing that you do is to understand the rating specification to know exactly how long the content will be protected. The rating is given by the underwriter's laboratories by taking the independent testing on safes as according to the type and length of protection they provide. From this article it has been clear that it is very important to have the security safe in the home or office in order to protect your valuables.