Waterproof File Safes Protect Your Documents
January 10, 2007 – 10:22 am
If you live in an area that’s prone to floods, hurricanes, or other wet and wild storms, you might want to consider a waterproof container of some sort to protect your personal documents and anything that relates to the ownership of your house, car, etc. That’s in addition to the usual home security concerns (you don’t want to make it easy for a burglar to walk off with your papers). Sure, you can get a safe deposit box for these kinds of items, but that will put a bill in your mailbox every month. Also, there’s the inconvenience of driving to the bank whenever you want to check on something.
These waterproof file safes from Brink would allow you to keep everything in your house and give you some peace of mind, knowing your paperwork won’t be destroyed in a flood. They’re also fire retardant up to 1500 degrees, so they should keep papers from singing in the event of a fire. Keep in mind, however, that they’re small enough that a burglar could simply take the whole safe and walk away, so you’d probably want to keep them in a full-sized floor-bolted or wall-mounted safe unless you’ve got a secret compartment they can be tucked into (and, yes, burglars think to look under the bed….).
The file safes are available online from Blair, starting at $40.