Home Safes: What’s the best home safe to buy?

Having a safe in your home isn’t just for rich people. You don’t have to have a posh safe behind a piece of expensive art or hidden in the library behind some books of ancient history! Today we’re talking simple home security options.

With the increasing popularity of expensive digital equipment, increased burglary rates and the higher insurance costs, home safes offer home owners an affordable way to avoid being a victim of theft.

There are some very expensive and highly secure safes on the market but there is also a very good range of budget safes. With all the choice though, we know it can be daunting task finding the right safe. We always offer free advice to our online customers and we like to do that here, on our blog too.

Instead of recommending one type of safe we’ve focused on several different product types.

Best S2 class, 4K cash rated safes

Best Budget Safe that costs less than £100

Best safe for Laptops

We’ll start with the most common ratings of safes in residential properties an S2 safe will offer its owner £4,000 overnight cash cover if installed in the correct manner.

Best insurance approved S2 £4,000 cash / £40K valuables safe

Criteria for being considered:

• £4K cash cover & Insurance Approved
• Available as either key or electronic locking
• Fire rating?

The Burton Aver S2 – variety of sizing and build quality make it hard to beat. ECBS testing, UK Police Secured by Design Approved and recognised by the insurance companies one of the best S2 safes money can buy – genuinely … only negative to the safe … no fire rating  …

Model shown: Burton Aver S2 size 1K

If you’re storing paper documents and you want fire protection on your safe you must check out the InSafe Home Guardian. The InSafe Home Guardian safe is a new product on our website, although we’ve been our working with InSafe for over 20 years, and meets all of the above criteria. It’s approved by insurance companies, available in a range of sizes and comes with either key or electronic lock.

Model shown: InSafe Home Guardian Size 2

And as a bonus the InSafe Home Guardian is one of very few safes at this range that have their products independently fire tested, so you can be sure that it says exactly want it does on the box!

Best Budget Safe for under £100

Criteria for being considered:

• Less than £100
• Available in either or electronic locking
• Small enough to hide
• Installation points

With the above in mind we feel the following safes tick all of these boxes.

Phoenix VELA – One of Phoenix Safes Company’s fastest selling products, be sure to get hold of these as soon as possible as they regularly sell out.

Prices start from £55.20

Chubb Air – With the build quality you can expect from Chubb this is a great all round product – looks great too!

Prices start from £76.80

Phoenix Rhea – Another fast selling safe from Phoenix Safes Company it’s very similar to the aforementioned Phoenix Vela just a slightly different key pad and an LCD Display screen.

Prices start from £68.40

Model shown Phoenix VELA SS0801E

Model shown Chubb Air 10E

Model shown Phoenix Rhea SS0101E

Best Laptop safe

Criteria for being considered:

• £1,000 cash rating
• Suitable for a laptop
• Installation points available

Chubb Air Laptop for “normal” laptop size (Chubb Air Hotel is the same just offers a better keypad)

Phoenix Dione Safe – the SS0311E fits larger laptops and is 20mm wider that any other laptop safe on the market. Also worth a consideration is the other model in the range SS0312E.

Securikey Euro Vault, Electronic lock  – Not as tall as the other safes on this list but offers a great width and a good functioning electronic lock.

Securikey Euro Vault, Key lock  – Exactly the same as the above but operated using a key.

Securikey Top Loading Safe for a slightly different opening method – we saw these in a hotel drawer one time – great use of space!!

We hope that you find the above, get in touch with us should you need any further assistance.