Thread: E cat safe/safe room options

Originally Posted by Mavarick

Alarms. they say, but sure its not in law, but it does help with sign off if you have a alarm fitted, can be monitored by yourself
Friend had the steel mesh then 20mm ply over-top of that so all you saw was the ply
Or you could buy a safe, fix that to a wall and then lock the closet with say a deadbolt, or similar
that way E cat stuff is in the safe and all the other stuff is in the closet. effective making the closet your A cat safe.

If it can be monitored by myself that really helps. Easy enough to install a system to just monitor the safe or just the strong room - power the system and supply a backup battery internally with a door and motion sensor internally so even if they cut their way in it'll still trip. If it's not actually law that gives a lot better ability to work with the AO in sign off.

I was thinking along the lines what your friend did. In the case of a large closet it could then be repainted to match how it originally looked at only the loss of 40mm of depth/width/height at any point internally, so really wouldn't be noticeable to anyone afterwards.

If I do have to buy an E cat safe that's a good idea as well, since I can't see myself spending enough to buy the size of E cat safe I'd want!