Key Safe Recommendations
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ColinBr
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Wall Mounted Key Safe Security Code Door Lock Indoor Outdoor Combination Lock | eBay
EASY TO INSTALL - The outdoor key lock box is the perfect solution for securing your keys with a 4-digit combination password. With pre-drilled holes, screws and instructions included - installation can be done quickly.
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I've used 1 like this before
nun_hunter
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Seeing as you can hide the keys in a drawer or under the bed I don't think there is any rating applicable.
I've got a similar key safe to the one shown above for a spare door key and has served me well. It'd be easier to break a window and get in than try and get the safe open or off the wall then come through the front door.
Steff
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Reason is not the key (no pun intended) to the problem. It is simply a violation of the law if you keep a key to a gun safe in a key safe that doesn't fulfill the requirements of a gun safe itself.
Stalker62
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Would you be kind enough to cite that please?
For a safe thread this is starting to get scratchy!!
I asked my feo for guidance on a 'safe ' place for the cabinet keys just the other week. His response was there is no official guidance. Talked about key safes as a possibility but no spec mentioned. The upshot was put it somewhere you find awkward to get to...any thief will have the same problem.
That is utter nonsense.
Just as well my sock drawer meets BS7558
Exactly this. The BASC magazine carried adverts for these:
Police Preferred Key Safes | The Key Safe Company
Protect your home with a police preferred key safe. Certified by Secured by Design, official Police scheme for home security. Easy to install. Free delivery & returns.
keysafe.co.uk
When I asked my FEO (A&S), he said the presence of one of those indicates that inside it there are keys to something of value elsewhere (valuables, gun safes, etc) in the property and you will encourage any burglar to attack it to get they keys and then to find what they open - don’t do it!
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Hang it on a hook in your dog box inside your locked dog pen. 
DK.260
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As said earlier. If a wrong un sees a key safe, they then know there is something worth protecting and may concentrate on opening it.
I’ve tried it, those 18v battery disc cutters do make short work of keysafes (as well as many other things)
If you are thinking of a key safe, I would put some random keys in there and hide the cabinet keys somewhere else.
I’ve tried it, those 18v battery disc cutters do make short work of keysafes (as well as many other things)
If you are thinking of a key safe, I would put some random keys in there and hide the cabinet keys somewhere else.
Rusty Gate
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Screwfix £49. Black flip down front. Can change combination & resembles a ring door bell at a glance. Kids round herd like to figure out the codes on the exposed tumbler style
The “secure by design” key safes would be my choice and the local police force are advising that keys be put in a safe or key safe to keep them secure - they warn that leaving them in a draw is not good enough.
Security in layers - everything needs to be discrete - key safe in a discrete place, away from the cabinet - both on the same area or next to each other is not good - makes it easy. You want to waste the opportunist time so he gives up and gets out.
If they want your guns they will bring the right kit or ask you to open it ….. best line of defence is don’t make it obvious you have guns in the house to the causal observer and have good friends - this includes social media.
Security in layers - everything needs to be discrete - key safe in a discrete place, away from the cabinet - both on the same area or next to each other is not good - makes it easy. You want to waste the opportunist time so he gives up and gets out.
If they want your guns they will bring the right kit or ask you to open it ….. best line of defence is don’t make it obvious you have guns in the house to the causal observer and have good friends - this includes social media.
delta wolf
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Could be a contender for the SD never let a lack of knowledge stop you being a keyboard expert on the subject award 2023!
Strange then that policeb forces are recommending them especially if you live alone you lodge the combination with the said force so that.they can get access in event of something happening to you.
At the present time they only seem to.be
recommending them.to those who live alone are elderly or have health issues where there is a possibility of you dropping down dead, though they don't say that.
No mention of minimum rating just told to get a cheap one from Amazon, screwfix, B&Q
etc.
My choice where to mount it but suggested
Close to cabinets only recommendation was
to fix it to structure of building with suitable
fixings as cabinets.
Stalker-of-the-deer
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We use master lock key safes at work for access, you would have to use an angle grinder to get into one they are that tough.
I use one for my keys.
I belive the the law states "as far as reasonably practical" so a key safe forfills that role.
If they want in they will get it.
How many chance burglers walk around with angle grinders and portable gas axes? A gun safe won't hold up to a sustained planned attack.
90% of burglary is by chance and people taking an opertunity a key safe stops that
I use one for my keys.
I belive the the law states "as far as reasonably practical" so a key safe forfills that role.
If they want in they will get it.
How many chance burglers walk around with angle grinders and portable gas axes? A gun safe won't hold up to a sustained planned attack.
90% of burglary is by chance and people taking an opertunity a key safe stops that
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