3 Things Not to Do When Locked Out of Your Safe
Safes are incredibly secure places to store your most precious or valuable items in the home or office, but sometimes, getting into them when you need to, isn’t always straightforward. Whether you’ve lost the key, forgotten the combination, or the bolt work is jammed, you won’t be getting back into it, without the help of a qualified and experienced safe technician.
Breaking into your safe without professional guidance is not advisable, even in an emergency, since you could do far more harm to the safe and even injure yourself.
Here are 3 things that you mustn’t do when you get locked out of your safe:
- Try and override the safe’s security
Attempting to override any of the security features of your high security safe could make it even harder to get inside it, and without specialist knowledge, you should never try to do this, Instead, you should call a local safe installer and give them the make and serial number of your safe, so that they can guide you to get back into it without damaging it, or send a technician out to help you.
- Disassemble the safes wiring
Trying to disassemble the wiring of your safe will likely result in a manual lockout (a feature designed to prevent an attack from a burglar), and could even render your safe useless once it’s open.
- Drill into a locked safe
Whatever type of safe you’ve got, be it electronic, combination or standard lock, drilling into it is extremely dangerous and if you don’t injure yourself while doing it, you’ll make it unrepairable at the very least.
Seeking professional help to get back inside your safe
Whether you call the company that you bought the safe from, or choose another safe seller and installer in your area (or even a locksmith), they are the only people qualified and experienced enough to get your safe open without causing any harm to anyone, or anything. With specialist training in all kind of lock emergencies, safe technicians and licensed locksmiths can fix broken locks, remove broken keys from locks, and help with all manner of other safe related problems you may be experiencing. They can also give you up-to-date security advice and help you choose security systems for your home, if you feel that it’s not as secure as it could be.
You’ve been locked out of your safe and it’s a royal inconvenience, but worry not, with just one phone call to a local safe technician or licensed locksmith, you can get back into it safely, and often quickly, too.
