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  • Thanks for all the light advice folks. WFH this afternoon so might be able to see if I can get at the transformers etc to plan the job a bit better.

    The reason I'll be at home is my gf has locked herself out. Again. So to stop this happening in the future I have suggested a key safe like this but I'm wondering if it needs to be screwed to a flat wall? Our house is rendered with some sort of lumpy stuff (technical term) so potential robbers would just be able to jimmy it off the wall fairly easily and then break the box open somewhere quiet at their leisure.

  • I hold keys for quite a few of my neighbours. I wouldn't have thought a key safe on the outside of the building was a good idea at all. We all lock ourselves out from time to time but even a keyholder a number of miles away is better than a vunerable key safe easily identified with the building. Possibly better under a plant pot or bin or in the wheel arch of a car etc. Really just needs your GF to be a bit more careful too.

  • Really just needs your GF to be a bit more careful too.

    Well, yes. You are welcome to come and tell her that ;)

  • under a plant pot or bin or in the wheel arch of a car etc

    Even better is hidden inside somewhere locked - bike shed / similar, then hide the spare key to that in one of those places. Or ideally have the first locked hiding place have a combination lock.

  • We all lock ourselves out from time to time

    I don't.

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