Is A Wall Safe Your Best Bet For Home Security?
Proponents of wall safes for home security support the notion that if a burglar can’t find it, he can’t steal it. Although that’s logic that I can’t necessarily deny, how can you be so sure he won’t find it? A wall safe is a very slick way to keep your valuables safe – if it’s possible for a steel box to have sex appeal, a wall safe is the Fabio of the home security world. They offer a certain Hollywood charm, which is not only effective if indeed properly hidden, but very 007 like as well. For instance, Secure Logic manufacturers a sharp looking stainless steel wall safe that opens using a biometric fingerprint lock. When you swipe your finger over the scanner, the door, flush with the wall, drops down vertically rather than swinging wide open.
Safes on the market like the aforementioned can be pretty well concealed with mirrors, paintings, and lightweight furniture, but the ones with all of the bells and whistle security features typically have a heavy price tag associated with them. American Security makes a heavy duty wall safe that will run you upwards $700. And as nice, and well built as it may be, it still has one major flaw in my eyes – they virtually all do – if the thief wants the contents enough, it won’t take much for him to rip it from the wall.
But he can’t find it, right? I don’t know – personally, I have a Homak Wall Safe that I keep in my room, primarily because it can hold my shotguns, in case of a nasty home invasion, and I wouldn’t really be particularly devastated if it were ransacked. This is primarily because the safe itself was only $100, and I don’t keep anything valuable in it, with the exception of a trusty Remington 870 12 gauge that I purchased at a police auction. My point is, it’s up to you whether or not you want to risk keeping your expensive jewelry and cash deposits in a hole in the wall. It may be hard to find, but if it’s discovered…wall safes are great, just be smart.