Protect your valubles, documents and guns from fire and burglery.

Midwest Lock and Security provides sales of new and used safes in a variety of models and styles for home and commercial use. For more information on the safes that we carry, please contact us.

Midwest Lock and Security provides services such as safe opening, safe repair, safe combination changing.

Understanding Fire Protection

1. Fire Proof vs Fire Resistant Safe
   Due to the limitations of today's materials, all safe products are susceptible to heat and fire damage with exposed to a high enough temperature for an extended period of time. Thus no safe product manufactured today is considered "fire proof."
   Certain materials can provide resistance to high temperatures for limited periods of time. Products properly constructed with these materials can be classified as a "fire resistant" safe. Depending on the materials used and the methods of construction, safe products can provide vary degrees of fire resistance.
2. What Level of Fire Resistance Do I Need?
   In a home fire, the peak temperature and duration of the fire can vary depending upon the size of the home, the materials used to construct the home, the response time of firefighters, etc. It is estimated that the typical peak temperature in a home fire ranges between 800 to 1200 degrees Farenheit. The typical time for a firefighter to bring a home fire into containment is extimated at 15 to 30 minutes.
   To protect paper documents, the internal temperature of a safe must remain below 350 degrees Fahrenheit while exposed to the conditions of the typical home fire. Thus, a safe should provide enough fire resistance to keep the maximum internal temperature of the safe below 350 degrees, when exposed to external temperatures 1200 degrees for 30 minutes.
3. Certified Fire Protection
   To ensure superior fire protection, look for safes certified by Omega Point Laboratories (O.P.L.) and Underwriters Laboratories (U.L.) These organizations provide independent certification of fire resistance in safe products. A safe receives official certification for fire resistance, if the maximum temperature inside the safe remains below 350 degrees when exposed to standard test methods. A safe recieving a certidied fire resistance rating of "1200 degrees for 30 minutes" means that the safe will maintan a maximum internal temperature below 350 degrees when exposed to the conditions of a typical home fire.

The Safes sold at Midwest Lock and Security are from manufactures that are certified by either OPL or UL. These safe manufacturers include:

• American Security Products
• Liberty Safes
• Gardall Safes