Keybox that's actually secure?
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Yes, if someone enters with a key there is no "forced entry" which is usually a requirement for insurers to pay out.
that is my take on it as they mention covered if there was a forced entry - using a key is not forced entry
Good luck with trying that one on the insurers. In that case they will pay out for the stolen key as it was gained by force the rest of your positions are not covered i reckon. .
I suppose that's why they have a generous "lock replacement" cover if your keys are stolen, as happened to a relative when her car was snatched as she was getting in.
I got the locksmith to fit a modern Chubb to replace the old lock.
My insurers wouldn't commit to that either way when I was intending to install a key safe, I never got a definite answer. They just said they were happy for me to install a key safe of any standard but reminded me that they would not pay if there was no forced entry.
Yes.
Surely there would be a case for disability discrimination in such a case. That is that a disabled person is highly likely to need that sort of access in an emergency and therefore a keybox. I wonder if that has ever been tested in court.
I have one hidden at the back of my house and I’ve needed it a few times when I’ve accidentally locked myself out.
We look after the keys for 4 elderly widowed women in our street
When I used to have the workshop in London I had several key boxes outside, mainly for trusted customers to pick up their cars after I’d gone home. In one of them I kept a key to a shed in the yard. Hidden inside the shed was a key to the workshop wicket gate. Hidden inside the workshop was the key to the office. In the office was a safe with a combination lock and the keys to the shutters were in there. Even if someone found that sequence of keys, they still needed the code to the alarm which would have gone off long before they got to the office.
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Was talking about this the other day with she-who-frowns-at-me, and she'd never thought about the keysafe compromised forced entry either.
We used to have a keysafe, but have not reattached it following refurbs, as we now have EWI, so fixing things to the outside walls becomes a lot more effort.
But in all the years (decades) we had it, we never needed it once.
Think what we'll do is to put a combination lock on the gate, so that if anybody does get locked out of the house they can get into the garden, where there's an outbuilding with a 3x3m covered area (roof and 3 sides), where someone could shelter while they wait for another family member to rock up.
We used to have a keysafe, but have not reattached it following refurbs, as we now have EWI, so fixing things to the outside walls becomes a lot more effort.
But in all the years (decades) we had it, we never needed it once.
Think what we'll do is to put a combination lock on the gate, so that if anybody does get locked out of the house they can get into the garden, where there's an outbuilding with a 3x3m covered area (roof and 3 sides), where someone could shelter while they wait for another family member to rock up.
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