Home Safes

AndyCr15

AndyCr15

AndyCr15

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I'm looking to install a Home Safe. I saw the cheap ones on Amazon and people commenting they can be broken into in a matter of seconds, someone recommended a Yale Certified Home Safe at around £135 which is the one I've now bought.

I had thought I might install it myself, but changed my mind now it's arrived. I called a local Safe Shop and he got quite aggressive about what a waste it is, it's too common and there are ways to break in to it. A burglar with take a photo, upload it to the internet and will very quickly have people telling him how to get in.

This doesn't sound likely to me. This sounds more like the £30 safes like an Amazon reviewer had commented on.

He did make some fair points about you actually make yourself a target if a thief breaks in and finds a safe.

What are people's thoughts?
 
How about two, one easier to find with nothing in, where said burglar can waste their time in the property and increase risk of getting caught.

Sounds like the safe shop were peeved you didn't buy it from them.
 
Check with your insurance company I think some increase premiums if you have a safe. Possibly because you have valuables worth stealing.
Andi.
 
thenewoc said:
How about two, one easier to find with nothing in, where said burglar can waste their time in the property and increase risk of getting caught.
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This is what I am considering, so to make the ruse believable i was thinking cheapo safe in a wardrobe *concealed* with say a throw.

Put the real safe in the loft, bolted into the breeze block, behind a fake box. So it looks like the box is against the wall but in fact its a shell.

Was wondering how likely it even is that a thief would go into a loft.
I mean when you think risk vs reward going into an area that could be just filled with junk and has no alternate escape options doesn't look good.
We don't have nor intend to have a loft ladder so thats a minor hurdle straight away.
 
I suspect unless a burglar was after a specific item which they knew was in the loft they won't take the risk of going up their as they are effectively blocked in with little visibility/hearing.

On the flip side if it's that much effort to get into the loft would you actually end up using it?
 
GSXRMovistar said:
I suspect unless a burglar was after a specific item which they knew was in the loft they won't take the risk of going up their as they are effectively blocked in with little visibility/hearing.

On the flip side if it's that much effort to get into the loft would you actually end up using it?
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I guess it depends what you want to keep in it

Would be nice to keep some sentimental items safe when we go on hols

A decent chunk of the rest of the likely to be stolen valuables goes with us anyway and its all insured.

Its really the sentimental stuff, such as my granddads cufflinks. Probably worth £5 but the sort of thing you imagine a thief would put into their swag sack and throw later when they inspected them. I assume I am right and they still use sacks with SWAG written on them?
 
I wouldn't expect the price of your (home) insurance to be affected one way or the other to be honest - usually it's just a requirement because of the declared value of "valuables" that you are asking them to cover!

Most safes have a "cash rating" - times this by 10 and it gives you the level of cover for valuables (jewellery, antiques, gemstones, furs, paintings etc - the definition of valuables is dependent upon your own policy wording!)

I've never known an insurance policy to be more just because you "have a safe" - more likely the insurance is more expensive because you'd declared a certain sum of valuables that then require a safe for them to be properly covered!
 
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