Sold Secure safe rating: check the approved product

The listing said Gold, and the policy booklet on the table named a European grade. A Sold Secure safe rating is the medal Sold Secure awards after its own attack test, on a named specification, for that product. You are in the right place if a UK seller has printed Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Diamond on a safe, a cabinet, or a gun cabinet, and you need the scheme those words belong to.

Sold Secure runs the scheme for the Master Locksmiths Association. The ratings page sets out four grades. The 2025 approved-product catalogue is where the specification notes live, including the different grade sets for SS304 domestic safes and SS314 security cabinets. Secured by Design’s home-safe guidance names SS304 for domestic safes, SS314 for cabinets, and SS302 for firearm cabinets.

We read the Sold Secure ratings page, the Sold Secure about page, the 2025 catalogue notes on which grades each of those specifications uses, Secured by Design’s home-safe page, and the four amazon.co.uk listings in our Burg-Wächter comparison, in October 2026. We did not attack a safe. A qualifying purchase through our links can earn us a commission at no extra cost to you.

In short

A Sold Secure safe rating is a UK attack medal on a named specification, from a scheme run for the Master Locksmiths Association. Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Diamond are the four grades, and the 2025 catalogue does not place all four on every specification. SS304 is the domestic-safe line, SS314 the security-cabinet line, and SS302 the firearm-cabinet line, so you check the approved product.

A UK attack test, not a European grade

The result on the shelf is a medal: Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Diamond. That medal belongs with a specification number, which names the family of product that was tested. “Gold” without that number is an unfinished claim.

EN 1143-1 is the European standard for high-security safes, often discussed in Eurogrades. EN 14450 is the lighter European standard for secure cabinets, at S1 and S2. They are separate schemes with separate certificates. A box can carry one, the other, both, or neither, and only the paperwork for that model says which.

When a schedule names EN 14450 S2, a Gold sticker answers a different test. Take the Sold Secure specification and medal to the insurer, plus any EN certificate you also hold, and ask which document meets the clause. You want that answer in writing, on the exact model, before the safe is dispatched.

Secured by Design’s home-safe guidance points at Sold Secure SS304 for domestic safes and also mentions LPCB. That page is crime-prevention advice. It does not set the cash figure in your contents policy. A security safe comparison lines up burglary-resistant cupboards. The policy sentence is still the one you have to match.

Four medals, not four grades on every product

The ratings page publishes four grades: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Diamond. Each name is tied to a threat level. Diamond is the highest of the four, and Bronze is the lowest. A colour on a sticker is incomplete until you know which specification it sits on.

The 2025 catalogue adds the limit listings often skip. Specifications do not all use the full set. SS304, for domestic safes, and SS314, for security cabinets, use different grade sets. A medal on the domestic line can be missing from the cabinet line, and the reverse is true as well. Printing Bronze on every safe, because Bronze exists somewhere in the scheme, invents a grade that specification may not offer.

Keep the medal and the code in one phrase. “SS304 Gold” or “SS314 Silver” can be looked up, if that specification uses that grade. “Sold Secure Gold” alone leaves the test unnamed. If the amazon.co.uk bullets give only the colour, ask for the specification and the certificate, or find the model on the approved list, before you pay.

A higher medal is the harder test inside that specification. It does not move the product onto EN 1143-1, and it does not exist on a specification whose published set stops short of that colour. The ratings page describes the attack in the scheme’s language. This article leaves that tool list where it is. You need the medal, the specification, and the model on one row.

Safes, cabinets, and firearm cabinets

Domestic safes sit on SS304, the line Secured by Design names for home safes under Sold Secure. The certificate has to say SS304 and a medal that line uses. A light document box can still be a fair place for papers with no SS304 approval. Weight and a known brand do not fill that gap. The safe comparison sorts home boxes by lock, litres, and price in GBP. The approved list is the approval check.

Security cabinets sit on SS314, with the catalogue’s own grade set for that specification. An SS314 result is a cabinet result. Matching a steel cupboard for a garage means matching SS314 and the medal claimed, then confirming both on the list. A security-safe page can show mass, lock, and price. It cannot award SS314 to a model the list does not name.

Firearm cabinets sit on SS302. Secured by Design notes that Bronze meets BS 7558 on that firearms line. That note is about Bronze on SS302, so a furniture safe stays a different product, and a domestic Bronze keeps its own meaning. A Sold Secure gun cabinet is a model whose row cites SS302 and a medal that specification uses. A gun cabinet comparison helps with size and lock. The licensing officer’s condition still has to describe that same product.

Key safes are separate. These sources name SS304, SS314, and SS302, and they do not pass a floor-safe medal to a wall-mounted key box. A key safe comparison sets capacity and fixing side by side. Any Sold Secure row has to name the unit you are about to fit.

How to check a listing

Search the approved list for the product. A maker can hold a medal on one model and sell the next with none. Use the model number on the rating plate, the carton, or the listing title, and look for that string beside a specification and a medal. “Sold Secure” in an amazon.co.uk title or bullet is the seller’s claim until a row matches it.

If the page says only “Gold”, you do not yet know whether the claim is SS304, SS314, SS302, or another specification. Ask for the certificate reference before you pay, and keep it with the order. A chat line that says the product is certified is weaker than the model row.

The grade-set notes here come from the 2025 catalogue. An older approval can leave the list, and a new model can be missing from a saved PDF. The current list is the record. A logo on the homepage often shows the strongest medal in the range, which may be a different unit from the one in the photo. If no row appears, judge the safe on the documents it does have, and still look the model up, because a thin listing and a real certificate can both be true.

A medal is not a brand promise

The Burg-Wächter comparison holds four amazon.co.uk listings. On the sources used here, none of the four shows a Sold Secure mark. That is an absence in what we read. It does not prove the brand has no certificate on another model, and it does not prove these four were refused. If you need a medal on one of them, search the model number and read the row.

The top pick in that set is the Burg-Wächter FP 22 K, a 5.6-litre key document box at about £42.00. The listing states 30 minutes up to 1,093°C, with 4.4 from 1,548 ratings. These sources do not show a Sold Secure medal on it. It suits papers when you want that fire sentence and a small chamber. It is the wrong box when you need SS304 or an EN grade.

A locksmith’s recommendation can be sound on keys, parts, and fixing, and it becomes a Sold Secure safe rating only when that model is on the list at the promised medal. A Burg-Wächter safe page compares the boxes you can order. The approved list compares the medals. A listing that prints a code is the moment to read it as SS304, SS314, or SS302.