Posted by NE IA on December 07, 2008 at 08:52:33 from (206.72.18.153):
In Reply to: OT, Fire safes posted by Robert in Md on December 06, 2008 at 17:36:48:
Fire safes are kinda like the traveling sales man that has the magic in a bottle.
I lost a house in a fire, and still have the molten glob that was in it. It was a centery safe / fire box. Nothing fancy, and the warrenty card was inside the safe.
In all fairness it was a two story large home with alot of fire wood in the basment. Where was the safe? In the basment when all was said and done with a red glow ten foot around and on top of it.
Now I have three safes, (auction bargins) and the valuables are in the one in the garage where there is a min. heat sorce compared to the two story house. The garage has a cement floor, so again little fuel for a hot fire.
When our house burned, we had a chest type freezer out on the porch. Just enough damage to make it questionable about the food inside. I would also doubt that anyone trying to rob a house would go through a deep freeze to find valuables.
I'm a old man and been to alot of house fires, and I'm pretty well convinced you are not going to buy a fire proof safe at the big box stores. If it makes anyone sleep good at night thinking their valuables are fire safe, such is good. I would say it is as reasuring as those of us that think by locking our front door (with glass) is a lock against bad guys. Besides I have glass windown anyway. Firemen in the big cities spent 20 seconds at a door, if they aren't through by then, they find adifferent way to get in. Most house locks are refered to as child locks in my book. There has only been one in thirty years plus years that was difficult to break the glass in the door.
If you have the option, park your safe in a garage, and cement the wheels in with rebar reinforcment, pinned to the floor. Then you can make it difficult for a full time theif anyway.
We have been warned that difficult times like we are seeing could make for less than honest people.
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