How Fire Proof is Your Steel Safe?
Everything will burn if it is burnt hot enough and long enough. Even the hard stones inside the earth melted into lava because of the volcano’s natural heat. Let’s count how long your steel safe should stand in fire. The average metropolitan house fire in United States is 1100 – 1200 degrees for about 27 – 30 minutes before the fire stop. The average statistic means that some fire incident could happen for 10 minutes while the other incident could take 1 hour. With this data, the steel safe should protect the worse condition of fire.
A good fire proof structure of steel safe is found in Sportsman Steel Safes. The design of gasket and steel used for door and wall of the safe is the secret of the high resistance of fire. The steel used to make the safe is 1” thick, consist of four layers: outer layer steel, 1/8” of cooling gap, 5/8” fireboard and the most inside layer is ½” 2300 degree ceramic. The ceramic layer holds back heat and makes it the best protective and costly fire insulation on the market.
The structure of Sportsman Steel Safes has two fire insulations: the fireboard and ceramic. The function is to avoid direct contact with the piping hot steel in the event of fire. The gasket is designed to give extra protection from hot air during fire by sealing it perfectly. The gasket from this manufacturer will expand eight times its original size and seal the door.
The structure of steel and gasket has tested to have burning time for 100 minutes. This is adequate burning time compare to the average 27 – 30 minutes USA statistic. How fire proof is your steel safe? Any brand you have should cover the minimum requirement as stated in USA statistic above.
Authored by Phillip Thow