Yes, I remember those key safes, when I was a home carer, are they expensive to buy/ fit?
I would like one fitted.
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Look on Amazon @pauline3 . Not very dear. Personally I’m not keen on them being visible as its an obvious place for thieves to look. Hiding a key somewhere makes more sense to me, but who knows eh?
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I have hidden keys in a shed in the past.
I would like to do that again, yet feel I may be being watched, sounds ridiculous I know, that’s my crazy thinking as I’ve gotten older.
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Entirely reasonable. Think it’s worth reminding yourself that this is for emergencies, so you’re unlikely to go and take it out apart from once in a blue moon. Am sure that you’ll be able to resist the urge to polish the spare key weekly with duraglit or brasso. 
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I had mine fitted some time ago Pauline when my late husband was ill and had a personal alarm for if he had a fall when I wasn’t with him. He never needed to use the alarm, thank goodness, but after he died I still used the key safe. It was a part of a package so I couldn’t say how much it cost but my advice would be that if you do have one use a reputable company to install it.
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Total guesswork @Pipsqueak , but if one is having it fitted, then presumably the insurers will want specifications to be followed and, as you suggest, approved fitters?
My key safe is hidden from public view and needs a code to unlock it, so I know it is quite safe. Better than hiding a key under a flower pot anyway …
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I can think of several, very obscure places to hide a key.
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duraglit or brasso…
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It’d shine whenever the moon came out, and look like baby Jesus in his manger, drawing the three, er, not so wise crooks towards it.
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I have just read online that they can get broken into, if in plain sight, I now have visions of a burglar rooting around in my garden, looking for a key safe, so I am now going to have to scrap that idea,…crazy, crazy thinking, I will just leave the key in the door at night.
We’ve had a break in at our Boots chemist, lot of druggies around here, my house used to be a crack den, before I moved into it I was informed.
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You could have made a fortune out of that old bag of Homepride. 
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Half of my school friends used to enter their house via a key hanging on a string behind the letterbox.
I lost my keys once, my doors have deadlocks and when I arrive home the front and back door have to be unbolted, on one occasion I must have been distracted (it was when my kids were young) and I left the keys in the lock on the inside of the back door which as usual was then left open.
Several frantic hours were spent looking for my keys which were not discovered until the back door was shut for the night (or when we went out, I can’t remember)
I used to hide a key under the house at the back but these days that became too hard for me to get to so now I have a key safe hidden on the front verandah. As it happens I apart from the incident above I have never lost a key or locked myself out
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Providing that thieves leave sufficient damage upon entry to convince the police that forced entry was made, thus generating an appropriate set of papers for an insurer not to duck out of paying out, then that will have to suffice.
I’m always leaving my keys in the front door …it’s so annoying.
Even worse at the start of the month I posted a lot of Xmas cards …I think I may of posted the keys into the postbox along with the cards Doh
it was very early and dark I also had hold of the dogs lead thank goodness I didn’t post him .
I had to use the key safe
I emailed Royal Mail till now no reply …
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Yes, I can believe that,Ripple, I’ve been in a rush and not realised I left my keys in the door( outside) …was in the supermarket, was desperately looking for my keys, I had no car at the time, got back home, thank God they were in the door, I have a six foot gate, no one would have seen them, unless they entered the property…I’m much more careful these days, I locked myself out as well at the beginning of this year, it cost £100 for a locksmith, all he did was put a device of some sort through my door, within seconds he was in, how anyone can justify taking that amount of money, beats me, plus he was local…thankfully my next door neighbour let me stay with her until he arrived also used her phone as I’d left mine inside…I certainly learnt from that experience.
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I have left my keys in the door a number of times (sometimes when in a hurry to get in and spend a penny) on one occasion the postman rang the bell and asked me if I knew they were there .
Luckily I live in a safe area a tiny hamlet on a no through lane so am relatively safe from my carelessness.
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Yes but not the front door, the back. Found them when the dog was next needing to go out the back.
The main road is away the far side of the field so it was safe enough.
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When ah were t’lad, we were so poor that we didn’t need to lock the back door. Which was just as well, as we didn’t have one.
Not the back door - my car key. I left the key on the driver’s door just to post a neighbour’s door. In the mean time my son decided to lock my car. He was rather amused. I wasn’t - it was lashing rain and in the dark. That was almost forty years ago.
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