Key or Combination? Safe Buying Question of the Week.

What are advantages & disadvantages of key vs. combination?

Good question?


Keys get lost? Opening with a key is faster than a combination, that is, if you can find your keys quickly. Keys can be duplicated. Key locks are often pickable, easily pulled (think slap-hammer), and otherwise compromised. 


Combination locks take lighting (we now have lights for dialing that attache to your safe), they require you to remember numbers and directions for left and right turns. 


My preference? Electronic keypads. And don't listen to the myth of overcoming electronic keypads with electrical "tricks," --that doesn't happen to key-pads on fine safes. 


What the real question is, I think, is "Should I add an alarm to my security precautions --or not?" Some question pertain to security --and others aren't nearly as important. Talk to someone who has seen hundreds of safes burglarized (and NOT burglarized). Call us at The Safe Place for Advice, help, and to stop from wasting your time and money --not to mention making the mistake of buying a "safe" that isn't safe at all. We're at 775-358-7233.