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Buying a high security safe is a significant (but absolutely worthwhile) investment, and as such, it pays to remember these 3 important facts before buying one and having it installed in your home or business:

1. The more you pay, the better the safe

It never pays to cut corners when it comes to home or commercial security, and when choosing a safe, going for the cheapest one available, almost always means that the level of security it provides you with, will be compromised.

In the majority of instances, a cheap safe will have doors that aren’t as strong as those on a more expensive model, and the door will likely be as weak as the rest of the safe. Paying more simply means that you’re giving yourself the best protection possible.

By having a high security safe installed in your home or business, made with thicker, stronger metal, you’re making it harder for criminals to be able to lift or penetrate it, even with sophisticated cutting or drilling tools.

• You shouldn’t discuss your safe

Not every home or business has a safe, and unless you have talked about the fact that you have one and it’s become public knowledge, your home shouldn’t become a target for criminals. That said, any home can be hit by burglars irrespective of whether there’s a safe inside – or anything worth stealing, for that matter – but if your home or business is broken into and your safe has been damaged by thieves trying to open or move it, then you haven’t hidden it well enough, and you may even have been talking about it too much, or to the wrong people.

Try to keep the fact that you have a safe, as secret as its location!

• Your safe should be well hidden

Even if you need to access your safe frequently, you should still make an effort to effectively conceal it, and the best way of ensuring that nobody can simply stumble across it, or uncover it with a quick search, is to have the high security safe installed in a wall or in the floor. This means that the walls – which while still very robust, are the weakest part of a safe – are totally inaccessible, leaving just the door accessible, but ideally, only to those who know its location.

You can hide a safe in the wall and behind a picture, and this will give you an increased element of security, but if you have real concerns about being targeted by thieves (or by any individual known to you), then a high security safe installed in the floor gives the highest level of protection possible.

It’s not enough to simply buy a high security safe and expect that to be the end of all your security worries; buying a safe is in fact, just the first step. Take heed of the 3 facts above, however, and your safe could turn out to be your safest investment yet!