Good key safe?

oxcat1

Hello,

I wonder if anybody could recommend a good key safe?

the key safe I currently have is like this - http://http://www.safeoptions.co.uk/master-lock-5404d-illuminated-key-safe.html, but the carers have managed to get through 21 keys and two locks in the past 3 weeks with this safe!

What is the most common style?
Thanks

[Deleted User]

sorry cant help as link not working

Savvy_Sue

Is it this one?

OP, we've had a very basic one at work and haven't had any real problems with it. What is happening, have you been able to work it out yet? Is the key too snug a fit? Which lock is it they've broken, the door or the safe?

oxcat1

Thanks for your messages. Sorry the link isn't working. It should be this:
http://www.safeoptions.co.uk/master-lock-5404d-illuminated-key-safe.html

I can't actually get to the safe myself, but what seems to cause confusion is a) the actual mechanism of how to use the lock, I.e. the key comes out the bottom, but b) the key remains in the base of the keysafe when you are using it, I presume to stop people accidentally walking off with it. This means that the key is bulkier than usual, so carers keep snapping the key whilst using it, Twice snapping the key off within the lock, hence needing two new front door locks, and a locksmith! All pretty expensive stuff.

Money_maker

No.s 2 and 3 are the most common ones I see as a community carer http://www.amazon.co.uk/tag/key%20safe/products#page=1:sort=relevant

oxcat1

Thanks MM - really handy to know!

Savvy_Sue

Money_maker wrote: »

No.s 2 and 3 are the most common ones I see as a community carer http://www.amazon.co.uk/tag/key%20safe/products#page=1:sort=relevant

I think we have no. 2.

Does it need to be illuminated? Ours isn't, and is on a dark alleyway, so we've stopped using it!

elsien

Mines like no 3, got via age uk. It's fine for one key but very fiddly to get 2 keys back into.

Chocolate80

In Wiltshire, the Bobby Van will install a key safe for vulnerable people. I think they charge £50.