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In reply to all of the recent safe chat. I would think long and hard about putting a safe in your house.
I am about to start working for a family who are recovering from a burglary. The burglars found a safe in the master bedroom similar to the antique one up-thread. The burglars found it, pushed it to the top of the stairs then down the stairs. On its way down it knocked a hole in the wall destroyed several treads of the staircase and landed on the oak herringbone parquet floor in the hall tearing chunks out of it. Once it was downstairs they slid it along the floor into the kitchen, lifted it up onto the worktop and through a window pretty much destroying any surface it touched along the way. Once it was outside they procured a sack trolley and pushed it down the street in broad daylight.
My cousin is a police officer outside of London and I asked her about this, apparently it's not uncommon. Basically if you are broken into and the cunts find safe they will move heaven and earth to take it as they assume that there is "good shit" in there. My cousin once responded to a burglary where a safe was found that was bolted to a load bearing wall. The safe and the chunk of wall it was attached to were taken. They won't waste time trying to get into the safe in your property they will take the safe with them no matter how much damage they cause. Her advice is a safe deposit box is a better idea than a safe, but if you have to have a safe you need to hide it very well.
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Cheers all.
Original plan was to get an antique safe and combine it as a piece of furniture and also a safe that was too heavy to nick. The floors are all a bit bouncy here though and I'm concerned what half a ton of safe sat in the corner would do to them.
Putting it in a wardrobe could do the job I guess. I don't really want to go under floorboards or scattered in voids and stuff as I want it convenient too or else it won't get used.
Nothing is particularly valuable or irreplaceable, just a hassle.
Interested to hear about master keys/codes. Any recommendations for models not subject to that?