[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/hoogerhydesafe.com\/2014\/04\/gun-safes-fire-seals-important\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/hoogerhydesafe.com\/2014\/04\/gun-safes-fire-seals-important\/","headline":"Gun Safes and Fire:  Seals Are Important","name":"Gun Safes and Fire:  Seals Are Important","description":"Just as important (maybe more important) as the insulation used in gun safes, is the type and number of seals used around the door.\u00a0 Some manufacturers claim to have terrific fire ratings \u2013 numbers made up based on the amount of drywall they use \u2013 but then poor fitting doors and inadequate seals allow heat…","datePublished":"2014-04-14","dateModified":"2019-01-16","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/hoogerhydesafe.com\/author\/grandesigns\/#Person","name":"Admin","url":"https:\/\/hoogerhydesafe.com\/author\/grandesigns\/","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/302e0bd4e1d62d1d917293ff473387856858f266d762e7754946563505fc1cc9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/302e0bd4e1d62d1d917293ff473387856858f266d762e7754946563505fc1cc9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hoogerhyde Safe and Lock","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/hoogerhydesafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Hoogerhyde-logo.png","url":"https:\/\/hoogerhydesafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Hoogerhyde-logo.png","width":600,"height":217}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"http:\/\/www.tomziemer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img064-300x293.jpg","url":"http:\/\/www.tomziemer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img064-300x293.jpg","height":"293","width":"300"},"url":"https:\/\/hoogerhydesafe.com\/2014\/04\/gun-safes-fire-seals-important\/","about":["Uncategorized"],"wordCount":295,"keywords":["Amsec gun safes","Fort Knox gun safes","gun safes","safe construction"],"articleBody":"Just as important (maybe more important) as the insulation used in gun safes, is the type and number of seals used around the door.\u00a0 Some manufacturers claim to have terrific fire ratings \u2013 numbers made up based on the amount of drywall they use \u2013 but then poor fitting doors and inadequate seals allow heat and smoke to rush to in during a fire.This portion of a fire test graph illustrates my point perfectly.\u00a0 It comes from Intertek ETL Laboratories, an independent testing lab.\u00a0 Results were released this January for fire tests done on four gun safes in December 2013.\u00a0 Temperature is shown on the vertical axis, time on the horizontal.\u00a0 During the test, the furnace temperature was raised to 1200F in 8 minutes, then held steady until the end.\u00a0 Temperature sensors were located inside each unit 7\u201d from the top.\u00a0 A safe is considered to fail when it\u2019s inside temp hits 350F.Looking at the test curves from right to left, the curve furthest to the right is for an American Security BF gun safe.\u00a0 This safe lasted for 126 minutes before the internal temp reached 350F \u2013 over two hours!\u00a0 I cannot name the other manufacturers here, but they are very well known.\u00a0 The next curve to the left is a top-of-the-line unit with a 2.5 hour \u201cfire rating\u201d.\u00a0 Few companies claim to have a fire rating that high, but when this safe was tested by ETL it failed in only 69 minutes \u2013 less than half what the manufacturer claims.\u00a0 The next safe has a 60-minute rating but it lasted only 47.5 minutes.\u00a0 The final unit is said to have a two-hour rating but, incredibly, it failed in just 9 minutes!!\u00a0 That\u2019s some kind of great fire protection, isn\u2019t it?Next time:\u00a0 Explanation for the successful test and the failures."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"2014","item":"https:\/\/hoogerhydesafe.com\/2014\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"04","item":"https:\/\/hoogerhydesafe.com\/2014\/\/04\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Gun Safes and Fire:  Seals Are Important","item":"https:\/\/hoogerhydesafe.com\/2014\/04\/gun-safes-fire-seals-important\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]