Positioning of key safe?

Thank you everybody for your comments. You have voiced all the concerns that I have. I shall think seriously and take advice from Age UK before proceeding.

Mine is just at the side of my porch, out of easy sight. It has saved me so many times when I have locked myself out!

Thanks so much everyone. All comments really helpful.

My son had a key safe on his house. It was levered off Access gained to house in middle of the night

I have a C500 pro £69.95.Mounted by front door head height.Very secure and is a POLICE APPROVED device.Insurance approved.Would rec ommend

Mine is on the side of house at eye level so can be easily seen but not from the road.

Please, please make sure everybody is aware to scramble the numbers after they put the key back as they can still be seen.

I have carers daily and many times they tell me the number is either part showing or even can be seen fully.

I had a carer put a little note by the safe….please be sure to scramble numbers.

Also a tip from the police don’t automatically have a code using your birth date as it’s bound to show 19, yes mine did until it was changed.

Ours is positioned on the back of a post by the front door. It was installed by the council before DH came out of hospital. It cannot be seen from the road but can be from the front door. We also have an alarm.

Thanks to you all! I have researched and made my choice of C500 Supra, as described by Ray82, as it is Police and insurance preferred. I will fit it next to the front door where it will be visible at night due to next door's motion sensor light!

Yes - that C500 looks good. Also grateful to Celieanne86 not to have my birth year starting 19. Might easily have done that!

I understand your keysafe code can be added to your medical notes for use in an emergency. Age uk should be able to advise where and who to notify.

Be careful where you position your key safe -don't announce to the World that you live alone .
I think that some of aggressive callers that I've had recently have seen the key safe and jumped to the conclusion that I live alone.

My son lives half a mile away with a key.

Many homes in the area have these right by the front door. If it is out of site, then so would anyone trying to break it, surely?

My sister refused to have a key safe. She fell and the ambulance called a company to get them in. End result, it was double glazed, and we had to pay one company to break in, and then another company to fix it. Total cost £1600.00.

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I would suggest contacting your local ambulance service and finding out the process to register your keysafe number and it's position with them. It's suprisingly common for people to forget their number at a time of high stress/pain.
I have a key safe, I don't live alone so it's mainly in case I loose my keys and it's on the side of the house at my eye level. Please don't put it too low down. I've spent far too much time kneeling on a wet path in the dark trying to type numbers in to a key safe that's positioned a foot off the ground at a time when every minute counts!

I live in a gated marina with a key safe by the gate. Our marina manager gave the code to the regional control centre, but it doesn’t seem to have been effective. Over the three years that the key safe has been there, the ambulance, fire, and police services have all been needed, but when they arrived at the locked gates, were unable to get in because regional control hadn’t given them the code. What we do nowadays is to give the code at the time of calling whichever service we need, together with telling them where the key safe is situated. That seems to work better.

I have a garden shed with a combination lock and the spare key is in there