![]() If they are, you can reactivate them by placing the bags in your oven at 245` for about 16 hours. If you are using the desiccant packs included with your product, make sure they are not damp. Open your safe once a week for about 10 - 15 minutes to let the air circulate. Keep your safe in a location away from a heat run, cold source or a high humidity area. To control moisture in your safe, the following suggestions are helpful: Under certain conditions, such as a change in temperature, some moisture may be released during normal use. During a fire, this moisture is released into the safe to protect your valuables. Thank you for your phone call regarding your Sentry®Safe.ĭampness buildup inside of Sentry®Safes is common due to the high moisture content in our insulation. Response By Email (Krystle L.) ( 07:48 AM) Dear XXX: ![]() How ridiculous that I need to buy a different safe to resolve this problem. I know I've never put damp paper money in here, but every time I got get a $20 or a $50 for a birthday card, they're always damp and smelly. ![]() I guess this isn't the kind of safe I want. Keep them separate and in a dry, solid container.Īnd from now on, if you ever seal away anything, make sure it's dry first.Īccording to the manufacturer, this type of safe is common to have moisture in its insulation for fire protection (see reply below). But if you absolutely have to keep the originals, absolutely do not put them back into a plastic bag or stacked with your other papers. If the papers contain important information, burn them. As for the rest of them, make copies and get rid of the originals. Find the ones that stink- it could potentially be all of them- but make sure that if you put any of them back in the safe that you know for certain they are completely dry and free of mold. Here's the bad part: you can't get mold off of paper. Separate them all individually to see which ones are the worst. Clean the safe with bleach to get rid of any smell or mold just to be safe, and then leave the papers out. Take everything out of the safe and take the papers out of the bags. It wasn't because of the safe, it's because you're papers weren't completely dry. And if it's an airtight safe, that would only make things twice as bad. If they were still damp when you put them in bags, the moisture would have nowhere to evaporate to. It's not the safe that's the problem, it's the papers. Ventilation won't do anything and neither will the gel canisters.
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