How to Pick a Brinks Home Security Safe
- 1). Make an estimate of what will be stored in the safe. All safes have a finite internal volume, and therefore the first issue is how much of what needs to be stored away in the safe. Determine this, and then increase it by between 10 and 25 percent to account for error and future needs.
- 2). Determine the security requirement for the safe. This is an important consideration if the safe needs to be fire and/or water proof.
- 3). Estimate the filled weight of the safe. This is another important issue for the ultimate placement of the safe. An unfilled small safe will weigh between 20 and 50 pounds, and a big safe might weight over 100 pounds unfilled. With contents included, the safe will be heavier still. This might become a serious issue with putting a safe inside a desk or in a discrete wall mounting.
- 4). Decide where the safe will go. Some Brinks Home Safes are models that can fit inside a large, file-sized desk drawer. Others are the size of small or large filing cabinets. This is especially the case for a large safe, as once it is full it will weight a lot and moving it will be troublesome.
- 5). Compare the cost against your budget. Safes are nothing to skimp on, because if a safe is needed, it should be a good one. However, if a $200 Brinks safe is outside the budget, it might be a good indication that the list of things that should go into the safe needs to be scaled back so that a smaller, cheaper safe can be purchased instead.
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