Yale Y500/187/1 - Combination Key Safe Box - Wall mounted

I have bought 3rd of these, This is very well made and price is very reasonable.

There seem to be a lot of key safes available, and after a bit of deliberation I decided to get this one for outside an elderly relatives house. The combination of a known brand and the features I wanted helped me to decide. The packaging isn't great - the kind of hard plastic where you need strong scissors to get into. It comes with screws which is helpful. It was easy to put on the wall with a drill and screwdriver. I like the tough angled outside which is a good deterrent for trying to force entry. The combination lock seems of good quality and the environmental guard is a good touch. Since putting it up it's needed to be used a few times, so has proven its worth. Letting people know the code has been enough for them to figure out what to do. The only negative part is that it's quite small inside, and the lock mechanism encroaches significantly on this. For a normal house key or two it's fine, but probably not good if you need many larger keys to open a door.

Bought to house a key for the dog walker to call by and take the dog out if we aren’t home and also for the kids to have access to the house after school without worrying about them losing the key. It is solidly built and was easy to install. Only concern is that the bottom is not metal so if it were to be prised from the wall and then attacked from underneath, there is a small gap where the key might be able to be removed. Overall though, it looks a lot more secure than some of the cheaper brands.

I needed an outside key store and decided to opt for the Yale as it looked the most spacious (I wanted to store some keys and a battery for my smart door lock. It came well packaged, easy to follow instructions and was very easy to install. It looks good on the wall and has plenty of room inside for several keys.

Very sturdy, excellent quality keysafe box

Bought this for an elderly relative, and spent many hours researching before I decided on this one. I would probably have preferred a push button model, but I wasn't impressed by the security on these. It surprised me that each digit is simply set as either active or not active. This means that a) the code can't use the same digit twice (could be an important consideration...) and that the code digits can be entered in any order. There are probably still many possible combinations, but not as many as one might imagine. Having decided on the 4 digit wheel type lock I then researched these. Without wanting to give too much away, I googled the name of the key safe I'd decided on, only to find a serious flaw in its security. Doing a similar search for the Yale Y500 I could find no similar flaw. That could be because, if the lack of reviews on Amazon is any indication, it's a relatively new model. Looking closely, it perhaps doesn't have the same drawback as the other model, but then I'm no safe cracker. Still, fingers crossed... The biggest problem I found was getting it out of its packaging. I know Yale have a reputation for security, but that's taking it too far! Once out, the first thing I noticed was how big it is. Most of this is the black surround, which is heavy duty plastic. This is probably intended to make it difficult to lever it off the wall. It would certainly slow down anyone trying. It comes with 4 screws which would be fine for wood, but like most people probably I was fitting it to brick. Yale recommend using anchors. These will be far more secure than the screws with wall plugs (the latter not supplied). I found M6 the right size, but make sure you get them with a head for a screwdriver rather than the bolt type. There isn't room in the safe to turn any type of spanner. Setting the combination is easy, and the wheels can be concealed by a cover which is slid up. I was tempted to remove 1 star as the wheels and numbers are rather small for elderly eyes and fingers to see and turn. However, that would perhaps be unfair as they are no smaller than those on other key safes, and actually the prime need for key safe is for relatives, friends and carers, for whom it should prove no problem. When I tried I found there is plenty of room inside for at least one Yale and one mortice key. Finally, another plus point. To open the key safe, enter the code, and then press the circle above the combination. (looks like a button in the picture but is just indented on the lid). This causes the lid to spring open. To close the safe you have to push the safe closed and jumble the digits. If you don't do this, the lid will spring open again, making sure the safe can not be left unlocked. Hopefully I've made a good choice, but I hope too that it's never put to the test.

Unit itself is fine but be aware screws provided are not very substantial philips head stripped ,fortunately in was able to use my own screws also no plugs are provided

Bigger than some cheaper ones but easy to fit, strong as you'd expect from such a good manufacturer and simple to set up the code.