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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;masterswimmer, post: 7302621, member: 102022&quot;]The thickness of the doors and walls of the safe are a huge misleading security feature. The cheaper manufacturers like to tout the door and wall thickness. What&#039;s much more critical to the security of the safe is the thickness of the steel used to construct the safe.</p><p><br /></p><p>3&quot;, 4&quot;, 5&quot; thick doors using 18 gauge steel can be broken into in under 3-4 minutes by a determined thief. The thickness of those doors are created by the space between the front door panel and the inner door panel where the locking mechanism resides. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now build that same 3&quot; or 4&quot; door using 10 gauge or 1/4&quot; steel and you&#039;ve got much more protection. The same thing goes with the side, back and top of the safe. </p><p><br /></p><p>Bolting the safe to the concrete slab in a basement is even more important. If that&#039;s not possible then a fallback mounting to the house framing is second best.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are lots of other parameters to building a quality safe. Look up Fort Knox safes. Those are very nice quality for break-in and fire protection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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