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Originally Posted by calvindog
Are these safes bolted to the ground? Or are they just too heavy to steal? Is that the concept? I'd like a safe that will be fireproof but I'm guessing there's a limit to how long a safe can be in fire and not melt.
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Steel begins to melt at around 1500-1600 degrees if I remember correctly. The average house fire (in my personal experience) gets no hotter than around 1200 or so.....maybe a little hotter for a very brief period known as flashover. But since most fires that have had a flashover are now self venting in some way (through the roof, out a window) the higher temp is not sustained. Unless you have some type of unusual scenario in which the safe would be trapped in a void in such a manner as to expose it to ultra hot temps for a lengthy period, I seriously doubt that a fire safe will have any problems in the typical house fire.