A key safe is only as good as what it is bolted to · review
A small wall-mounted key safe in zinc alloy with a four-digit code. GRIFEMA states 10,000 combinations, weather and frost resistance, and a body designed to resist hammering and sawing.
The conclusion The cheap solution to a real problem. Fit it out of sight and change the code twice a year.
A key safe solves something genuine — a carer who visits, a cleaner, a holiday let, a household that keeps locking itself out — and creates something smaller, which is that the key to your house is now outside it.
Where it goes, and what it is bolted to. Out of sight of the street, not beside the door it opens, and into solid masonry with through-bolts rather than into stucco or a timber frame. A key safe on a stuccoed skin comes off with the render.
Four digits, ten thousand combinations, resettable. Nobody stands on a doorstep working through ten thousand codes — what actually gives the code away is a box closed on the right combination, or a hand watched. The factory code is 0000: change it before fitting and every six months, and scramble the dials after every closing.
A safe. This is 227 g (8 oz) of zinc alloy. GRIFEMA states resistance to hammering and sawing, and that describes an opportunist rather than somebody who brought tools. Use it to avoid distributing keys, not to protect anything valuable in its own right.
Anybody who needs one person to be able to get in occasionally without owning a key.
On sale at $44 on the American Amazon store at the time of checking.
Prices and availability are what Keepa reported on the date this page was updated; both move.
Prices quoted in this text were read on September 2, 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Mounting | Wall mounted |
|---|---|
| Code | 4-digit, 10,000 combinations, resettable |
| Material | Zinc alloy, 227 g (8 oz) |
| Environment | Weatherproof, frost resistant, non-rusting |
| Contents | Keys, key cards, small valuables |
| Capacity | 5 keys and 1 card, stated by GRIFEMA |
| Amazon reference | B0BP1B52GD |
| EAN | 8436560668077 |
Out of sight of the street, not beside the door it opens, and on solid masonry. A key safe next to a front door announces exactly what it contains to anybody walking past, and the ten seconds it takes to look for one is time nobody spends if it is round the side.
Ten times the combinations, which sounds decisive and is not the real defense — nobody works through ten thousand codes on a doorstep. What matters more is scrambling the dials after every closing and changing the code twice a year.
It is a zinc alloy box weighing 227 g (8 oz). It resists a curious hand and a screwdriver; it does not resist a determined attack with tools, and no key safe at this price does. Treat it as a way to avoid handing out keys, not as a safe.
7.2/ 10
The cheap solution to a real problem. Fit it out of sight and change the code twice a year.
Between security devices of the same category and nearby price. Shown: what they all state. A half-filled column says nothing.
| Model | Price | Code | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRIFEMA GA1003 | $44 | 4-digit, 10,000 combinations, resettable | 5 keys and 1 card, stated by GRIFEMA |
| GRIFEMA GA1004 | $45 | 4-digit, 10,000 combinations, resettable | 5 keys plus 1 card, removable rack |
| BURG-WÄCHTER Key Safe 10 SB | $46 | 4-digit, 10,000 combinations, resettable, with auto-stop | Keys up to 7 cm (2.8 in) on an internal hook |
| ABUS KeyGarage 787 | $38 | 4-digit, individually settable | Up to 20 keys or 14 plastic cards |
A reference exists on these Amazon stores: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, United States. Listed is not the same as in stock — availability changes daily.
Details checked on September 2, 2026.
A single spare key for a carer, a cleaner or a household that locks itself out.
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for home security products and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
Wall-mounted · holds 20 keys or 14 cards · steel housing, zinc dial flap · 689 g (24.3 oz) · sliding cover
With its white version, the largest key box in this hub: ABUS states room for twenty keys or fourteen plastic cards, in a steel housing with a zinc die-cast dial flap, a sliding protective cover and a removable rack. 689 grams.
Best for: A building with several keys and several people — a vacation rental, a small business, a shared house.
≈ $38
Same as the 787 · white finish · 20 keys or 14 cards · steel housing · 689 g (24.3 oz)
The white version of the KeyGarage 787, for a stuccoed or painted wall where a dark box would be conspicuous. Identical capacity, housing and mechanism.
Best for: The same job on a white or light-rendered wall.
≈ $65
Wall-mounted · 4-digit, 10,000 combinations · aluminum and zinc alloy · covered dial
A wall-mounted key box with a sliding cover over the dials, which Amazon Basics states protects the mechanism from sand, salt, dust and dirt. Aluminum and zinc alloy, 3.5 × 8.6 × 12 cm (1.4 × 3.4 × 4.7 in).
Best for: A coastal or exposed wall, where the dials rather than the box are what fails.
