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Home safes became increasingly popular at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic as more people were forced to stay at home, giving them more opportunities to think about home safety, and more reasons than ever to want to keep their homes and belongings, protected.

Now, while buying a safe is a fantastic investment and a great way to keep valuable items secure, you still need to ensure that it can effectively serve the purpose for which it’s intended. You may not know it, but humidity can have a harmful effect on items such as firearms and precious metals, even when they’re stored inside a safe. Investing in a safe dehumidifier though, can guarantee the protection from humidity damage, of virtually anything you decide to keep in your high security safe.

Here are 5 reasons why you should invest in a dehumidifier for your home or commercial safe:

1. They minimize dust and humidity and keep mites out

Thriving in dark, damp environments, without a safe dehumidifier, your safe could play host to all sorts of tiny pests like dust mites, and the damage they can cause over time, is limitless.

• They offer better protection for paper products

Paper items stored in a safe can become warped and damaged over time, if humidity levels inside the safe aren’t kept a controlled level. A dehumidifier will dry the air out and eliminate moisture; preventing damage to such items of value as:

• Family photos
• Money
• Wills and other important documents
• Passports
• Silverware
• Dehumidifiers enable you to store electronics and firearms, rust-free

Electronic items, firearms or anything made from metal, may be prone to rusting in a safe without a dehumidifier. Rust can seriously damage – and in some cases, destroy – electronics, even if they’re only stored inside a safe for a short space of time, as it can with firearms, too.

• They help to improve air quality

Mold and mildew can just as easily develop in a safe if humidity levels aren’t controlled properly, and these can be equally as damaging for certain items stored inside it.

• Dehumidifiers are easy to move

A dehumidifier is easy to pick up and take with you wherever you may be going, so if you’re moving a safe to another location, or are taking a smaller one away with you on vacation (or even if you’re going to be using a hotel provided safe), you can just as easily take the dehumidifier along, too.

Safes are a worthy investment, but do consider giving the items stored inside the best chance of not just remaining protected from burglary and fire, but from the harmful effects of humidity, too.