External Key Safe

mysticsniper

mysticsniper

mysticsniper

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Does anyone have one of these currently, any issues?

There is plenty to choose from and most reviews on the rain forest show to be badly designed, easy to crack, not using sequential codes etc..

Looking to spend around £200, will pay more for something special.
 
What are you protecting against? Fire, wet, damp, or simply security?

Most are "easily picked" however I'd argue most thieves are not interested in picking and will do their best to take it away to deal with later on.

SentrySafe are the ones I keep hearing of...

Edit: Seems I missed the Key word

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I'd rather have one of those key rock things than a thing on the wall saying 'front door keys in here' :p
 
Just get a basic weatherproof key safe and then hide it very well.
Don't put it right by the front door or anything, and try to disguise it or place it somewhere it can't be seen - Inside the rim of a dustbin, or tucked up under the eaves of the garden shed.
A friend of mine makes working bird boxes that can also hide a key safe inside them.
 
https://keysafe.co.uk/c500-keysafe.html is the one I fitted here when outside help started to be needed. It hasn't actually been used that much (because I'm always here now), so I can't comment too much on wear & tear, but it's incredibly solidly made. It would be quicker to drill out the lock on the door or dismantle a window frame than get into the keysafe.
 
Andrew_McP said:
https://keysafe.co.uk/c500-keysafe.html is the one I fitted here when outside help started to be needed. It hasn't actually been used that much (because I'm always here now), so I can't comment too much on wear & tear, but it's incredibly solidly made. It would be quicker to drill out the lock on the door or dismantle a window frame than get into the keysafe.
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I’m in a job that requires me to access several properties using key safes. This particular one always seems the better made and no fears about scrambling the numbers when locking it back up
 
Andrew_McP said:
https://keysafe.co.uk/c500-keysafe.html is the one I fitted here when outside help started to be needed. It hasn't actually been used that much (because I'm always here now), so I can't comment too much on wear & tear, but it's incredibly solidly made. It would be quicker to drill out the lock on the door or dismantle a window frame than get into the keysafe.
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That's one of the products which has been slaughtered in the reviews. So if you have for example your code set as 1234 if someone put in 4321, or 3214 or 2341, etc it will still open. :eek:

Could you confirm?
 
mysticsniper said:
Could you confirm?
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It's right, but not a problem for me. It has 12 buttons which gives it enough combinations to deter casual chancers at the side of the house. Determined thieves would just go round the back where we're not overlooked and they could spend all day breaking in, unnoticed.
 
Waterproof key safe in a pond full of piranhas, sacrifice the most annoying child / relative to retrieve.

Any relatives nearby you can leave a key with?
 
mysticsniper said:
That's one of the products which has been slaughtered in the reviews. So if you have for example your code set as 1234 if someone put in 4321, or 3214 or 2341, etc it will still open. :eek:

Could you confirm?
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That's pretty much how any keypad lock works though? I've never seen a non digital one that doesn't?

We've got a ton of key pad door looks in that style at work and they all do that, there's still a huge combination of unique patterns though so the chances of guessing are pretty much nil for a normal person.

I'm a fan of hiding a key in a small tin somewhere else on the property assuming its not a flat.
 
sovietspybob said:
That's pretty much how any keypad lock works though? I've never seen a non digital one that doesn't?

We've got a ton of key pad door looks in that style at work and they all do that, there's still a huge combination of unique patterns though so the chances of guessing are pretty much nil for a normal person.

I'm a fan of hiding a key in a small tin somewhere else on the property assuming its not a flat.
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There are plenty of manual sequential key pads, mainly for door locks or internal safes, not seen any for external key safes sadly

Unfortunately most people who have one of these are not that technically savy and will use a combination that is easy to remember. Easy for everyone else as well.
 
mysticsniper said:
There are plenty of manual sequential key pads, mainly for door locks or internal safes, not seen any for external key safes sadly

Unfortunately most people who have one of these are not that technically savy and will use a combination that is easy to remember. Easy for everyone else as well.
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Yeah speaking from experience of several times trying to get into a room at work with a key press on the door and knowing full well it'll be a date, usually a year in the 20th centaury it's still massively difficult to guess in the real world!
 
sovietspybob said:
Yeah speaking from experience of several times trying to get into a room at work with a key press on the door and knowing full well it'll be a date, usually a year in the 20th centaury it's still massively difficult to guess in the real world!
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I turned up at a site to do some work once, electronic lock on the reception door (so order matters), just out of interest, shone phone torch on it, found the four buttons with greasy finger prints, which included 1 and 9, so it was likely to be one of two years, one of which was too long ago to be the birthdate of anyone still working, so put the other one in and opened it first time!
 
I have one. Cost £15. Works perfectly well. The security isn't that great but you also have to ask yourself whether anyone will actually ever put it to the test? There are many factors to consider, but the main one in my case is there no way anyone could attempt to tamper with it, without being seen.
My brother has one too, they usually come with rubber weather covers and he discovered a simple way to hide it was to spray the cover the same colour as the house!
 
Stick the key safe inside the meter box so it's not full view of anyone approaching the property.

Just remember to tell anyone who needs it that they will need to bring a meter box key with them.
 
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