Dan Cartwright
With the value in personal belongings ever increasing it is important to consider the secure storage of jewellery, watches, tablets and other technology. Along with valuables you may have cash and personal items that hold high sentimental value.
Choosing the right Home Safe is essential as the purchase of a safe might only be a one off buy. We have completed our review of the Top 10 Home Safes to buy for 2024. Increasing your home security is essential for greater peace of mind along with keeping your valuables and money secure.
Important things to consider when selecting Home Safes
- Cash/Valuables Insurance Rating
- Capacity (Volume)
- Locking Type
- Anchoring Position (Base or Back Wall)
At SimplySafes we have an excellent range of Home Safes to suit all requirements and budgets for a home or business. We also offer a professional installation service for home safes, most of the safes in the top 10 below can be anchored to the floor or wall (brick wall or stud wall).
For the safe management of pistols, rifles and ammo, a good gun safe is necessary. It is not the intention that these weapons should fall into the hands of unauthorised people who may have bad intentions with them.
At simplysafes.co.uk you will find a wide range of gun safes, but with a large assortment it is quite difficult to choose a suitable one that also meets your obligations. To help you choose a gun safe we have made a selection of the 5 best gun safes.
Top 5 gun safes
If you own valuable property or property with great emotional value, it is wise to store it properly to prevent theft. If the main purpose is to protect the property against theft, then a burglar-resistant safe is the right choice. To protect your property against fire, a fire-resistant safe is the best choice.
Burglar-resistant safes come in many different shapes and sizes. It is therefore difficult to make the right choice, because which burglar-resistant safe is actually the best? To make your choice easier, we have made a selection of the 5 best burglar-resistant safes that are currently available in 2024. The selection was made based on the following selection criteria:
- Burglary resistant European certified
- Locking by means of a certified key or code lock
- Spacious enough for the average user
Nowadays, in almost every home you will find one or more laptops and/or tablets. Besides the fact that this equipment can be very expensive, there is often a lot of personal and important information on it. Think about bank account information and important documents, but also photos and videos with sentimental value.
Burglars are particularly interested in the financial value of laptops, as a result of which laptops are susceptible to theft. The last thing you want is for your expensive laptop that has all of your personal and important information on to be stolen.
A good way to protect your laptops and tablets against theft is a laptop safe. Laptop safes are specially designed to hold laptops and tablets. They're big enough to fit the size of a laptop, but with a wide range of different laptop safes available, the choice does not get any easier. To give you a helping hand with your choice, our safe experts have made a top 3 of the best laptop safes.
Top 3 Best Laptop Safes
A deposit safe is ideal for companies where there is a lot of cash going around, but also for companies where objects such as car keys, important (confidential) documents or keys to holiday homes have to be handed in. In general deposit safes are mainly used to skim off cash.
To help you make a choice we have selected the 5 best deposit safes in this article. Depending on your wishes and requirements you can choose a suitable deposit safe based on our top 5.
The top 5 best deposit safes:
Here at SimplySafes, in addition to safes that protect the contents against theft, we also sell safes that protect the contents against fire. For example, paper materials are very vulnerable to high temperatures, but digital data carriers such as hard disks, SD cards and USB sticks are much more vulnerable to fire. It is therefore best to store these securely in a fireproof safe.
When choosing a fireproof safe, it is important to determine what type of materials you want to protect in your safe. Digital information carriers suffer damage at a lower temperature than paper documents and money. For the safe storage of digital data carriers, you therefore need a different type of fireproof safe than for the protection of paper.
To help you choose the best fire resistant safe we have selected the top 5 best fireproof safes of 2024.
Top 5 best fireproof safes:
Hidden wall safes are a popular range of products that are designed to be installed into concrete. If you are competent at DIY, installation can be carried out. You will need a special mix of concrete and have around 100mm of additional space so you can achieve a secure fixing. Alternatively you might need to seek a builder locally who can carry it out for you.
Top 5 wall safes
The Christmas period is naturally a busy time for anyone with work commitments, present purchases and visiting family. So there will be times during this part of the year that you might be away from home or the business for a sustained period of time.
It is always important to remain vigilant when it comes to home security and protecting your cash, valuables and jewellery.
Home Security
When visiting family and friends over the festive period you may be away from home for a few days or even a week, so naturally your home could be targeted by opportunist burglars who are trying houses in the neighbourhood.
See our recommendations to improving your home security:
- Automatic light timers on the inside/outside of the house – This is a simple and cost affective way of increasing the security on your home. If the lights are turned off all week then it is a clear indicator to any passer by that the home is not occupied. Purchasing a few plug devices for lights will be a cheaper purchase from any DIY store in the UK.
- Checking of the Door and Windows in your Property – Make sure that every door and window is closed and locked correctly before leaving the property.
- Close the Side/Back Gates – Closing the side or back gate to your house is another way of increasing the security at your house as it does not allow intruders easy access to the back of your house.
- Removing Bins/Car on the Drive – Leaving the recycling bins on the driveway for a prolonged time is sometimes an indicator to a potential burglar that there is no one currently home. Make sure these are stored away once they are emptied. If your family is also due to visit friends or family members, we also recommend to try and leave one car on the driveway so it appears that someone is home whilst you are away.
- Light Sensors and Cameras on the Outside of the House – Installing automatic light sensors and CCTV cameras to the outside your property is another security feature that you can add to your home. With modern technology on phones now allowing you to monitor and record movements on the outside of your home, we would highly recommend to have this fitted.
Gifts from Christmas
With different ways of increasing your home security that have been discussed, we move onto the contents of your home and protecting these valuables from theft.
Naturally the spend on gifts increases dramatically in November and December. The value on certain items will sometimes be a lot higher than other small gifts. Protecting these precious gifts can just be as important as the initial purchase. At SimplySafes we have an excellent range of high security safes that are designed to protect Watches, Jewellery, iPads/Tablets/Laptops.
SimplySafes Recommended Safes to Protect your Valuables over Xmas
At SimplySafes we have put together a list of our recommended security safes that are ideal to protect your gifts and valuables over Christmas.
Burton Eurovault Aver Grade 2 Size 0K Security and Fireproof Safe
The Burton Eurovault Aver Grade 2 is a high security safe ideal for the home or office. It offers 30 minutes fire protection for paper documents and has an excellent insurance rating of £17,500 for cash and £175,000 for valuables.
Pros
- 30 minutes fire protection for paper
- Cash Rating £17,500 / valuables rating £175,000
- High security double bitted key lock – 2 keys supplied
- Certified by ECB.S class CEN Grade II according to EN-1143-1
- Insurance Approved
Cons
- Cannot be anchored to the back wall
Securikey Mini Vault Silver S2-0E High Security Safe
The mini vault silver range is an ideal solution for protecting cash and valuables in the home or workplace. Both the electronic and key options have been tested and are certified to EN14450-S2. All the models include a motion sensor interior light and felt lined walls.
Pros
- European certified safe, Security Level S2, EN 14450
- Approved by AiS, Sold Secure and Secure by Design, Police Preferred Specification
- Cash rating £4,000 / valuables rating £40,000
- High security electronic digital lock, EN 1300 approved
- Motion interior light included
- Suitable for rear or floor fixing – Bolts supplied
- Felt lined interior
Cons
- No fire protection
Further Help and Advice
If you would like any further expert advice on selecting a safe, then please contact our helpful and friendly sales team.
Looking to protect your cash or valuables but don’t want to break the bank?
Then our budget safe range will be the perfect solution for you. We have put together our top 5 choices to choose from with advantages and disadvantages of each safe listed below.
The Best 5 Budget Safes
These are the 5 safes that our expert judges to be the best: