Safe Recomendation

[TheMan419]

Looking for a basic safe for the house to store valuables. Cash, passports, some other odds and ends. Any one have any recommendations? I assume the HF ones are crappy? Probably looking for something with 1 to 2 cubic feet of storage. Nothing excitingly large.

 

[WinterDeere]

If you have the will and means to move them, you can usually pick up antique safes and jewler’s vaults for free, or nearly free. I have one that weighs roughly 2600 lb., in which we keep most of our small valuables. It’s a Yale Safe jewelers vault built in the later half of the 1800’s, and still plenty secure today.

Gun safes are also a good option, if you need some serious volume. Most aren’t super secure, but they’re good enough to keep someone at bay awhile, if you have a home security system to dispatch police. Most of the better ones also offer reasonable protection from fire.

 

[4570Man]

Junky safes are a store all of your valuables in one spot device. The old antique safes are pretty cheap and secure.

 

[HCJtractor]

A safe that small seems pretty worthless. A thief could just pick it up and carry it away. I doubt you could anchor it down in a way that anyone with a battery side grinder couldn’t free. I’ve never regretted buying my Liberty gun safe. It’s very heavy ( way too heavy to easily steal) and secure. It holds guns, cameras, binoculars, documents, etc. Of course any safe can be cracked given enough time and the right tools.

I think finding a good hiding place would be better than a small safe. Maybe even create one in a wall or floor.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Much has to do with where you keep the safe box. In a masonry corner of a basement would be good, maybe off the floor in case of flood or firefighting water.

 

[Texas Driller]

Much has to do with where you keep the safe box. In a masonry corner of a basement would be good, maybe off the floor in case of flood or firefighting water.

With a basement, I'd worry about flooding too much! Unless you have a waterproof safe, that's just asking for your documents to get soaked through!

 

[TheMan419]

With a basement, I'd worry about flooding too much! Unless you have a waterproof safe, that's just asking for your documents to get soaked through!

Nah mount it off the floor. We have a fully concrete/cinder block basement. Mount the safe 4 foot off the ground. Makes accessing it to put stuff in or out easier and keeps it water free.

The heavy gun safe is sounding like a better idea. Getting it into the basement would be a job and a half though.

 

[TheMan419]

With a basement, I'd worry about flooding too much! Unless you have a waterproof safe, that's just asking for your documents to get soaked through!

Nah mount it off the floor. We have a fully concrete/cinder block basement. Mount the safe 4 foot off the ground. Makes accessing it to put stuff in or out easier and keeps it water free.

The heavy gun safe is sounding like a better idea. Getting it into the basement would be a job and a half though.

 

[Jstpssng]

Nah mount it off the floor. We have a fully concrete/cinder block basement. Mount the safe 4 foot off the ground. Makes accessing it to put stuff in or out easier and keeps it water free.

The heavy gun safe is sounding like a better idea. Getting it into the basement would be a job and a half though.

I helped bring one into a friends house once. It almost ended up in the cellar... when it tipped over off the dolley. There were kids and dogs running around, it's a wonder that we didn't pancake anybody.

 

[RNeumann]

Not much use for a safe now days. Most docs can be scanned and stored electronically. Plus a quick search on YouTube will show guys getting into safes rather quickly. The fire rating is just the number of sheets of drywall inside it.

I’d use a simple metal box if the goal is to keep honest people out. Or I’d think about cleaver places to hide the goods.