If you are looking for fireproof safes, these types technically don’t let the flame in, but they get so hot that the documents turn to dust apparently. You generally need a lot bigger safe to be able to be thick enough to disperse heat
For theft, you also need a super heavy or bolted down safe or they will just take the whole safe.
Safes Re expensive stuff, sadly.
I assume these safes all have a tight seal. If you put a case or two of water on top would it keep it cool as the fire melts the bottles open one by one?
This idea came from an old Minecraft trick where we put ice blocks in our building’s attics to slow fire spread on a MMO server.
No idea, but it wouldn’t be something I was willing to stake precious documents on.
That is interesting, always thought about getting one, for that reason. Not because I want a “safe” for my documents but at least to habe a bit of protection in case of a fire I’m my apartment.
I also did that in university. I somewhat recently learned that there are many different fire ratings. These small ones are usually rated for lower temperature “fires” for <30 minutes. In a real-life fire scenario, only 30 minutes under heat is almost never going to be the case, it would likely be 90 minutes or something and higher temperature on the higher floors like an apartment.
Anything you can physically remove from the building is not a safe place to keep valuables.
;p
I was wandering around Amsterdam and ran into The Bulldog. Their logo seemed familiar. I wonder why there hasn’t been legal kerfuffle with Gonzaga University yet.
It’s actually the USMC mascot logo too. Popularized by the Germans calling US Marines “devil dogs”, and Sgt. Maj. Jiggs, a bull dog, getting officially enlisted
Some advice I heard was to keep important docs in the lower half of the room to reduce fire damage risk, because heat goes up if you go higher. Other than that, most storage containers don’t seem to help a lot against fire, unfortunately.
If you store the documents lower, water is a higher risk though.
