Keeping Keys Safe
Keep your Keys safe
“Key” Ideas for Keeping your Keys Safe
Try these tips for keeping the keys to your house secure.
1) Losing keys to the house can be a real pain. Taking the time to find them can take all day. Keep track of all the keys to your house. If you give a spare key to a neighbor, make sure the key isn’t marked with your name or address. Teach children to keep track of their keys to the house as well.
2) Keep track of the spare keys you give out. Periodically check with neighbors or family members to ensure they still have the key and that it is kept in a safe place.
3) A good way to make sure your new property is secure is to re-key the locks when you move into a new home. While this change may be costly, you won’t regret it should someone with the old key come around. Be sure to reprogram the combination on the garage door as well. The previous owners may turn in all of the keys, but one never knows if there are extra copies out there.
4) Although many people do, never hide an extra key anywhere outside your home. This may seem a bit extreme. After all, what happens if you are locked out? Thieves are expert in finding hidden keys from all the typical places—under the mat, above the door frame, inside a flower pot etc… If losing a key is a concern, keep one with a trusted neighbor or relative. Or keep an extra set in your office desk, spare pocket of purse or glove box in the car. If you insist on keeping a key outside your home, another option is to secure the key inside a sturdy combination lock box.
5) Re-key the lock when one of the keys is lost. This is the typical procedure for any business or school. Should it be any different for the place you love the most—your home? It is always better to be safe than sorry.
6) All of these recommendations would be useless without also applying them to keyless and remote entry systems as well as garage door openers. The transmitters that open them perform the same function as a key so they are just as vulnerable to loss, damage or misuse.
7) After all else, use common sense and your best judgment to keep your home and loved ones safe.