Safe Opening & Repair – Find a Safe Specialist to Open Your Safe

Our locksmiths that specialise in safe opening can open all types of security safe and cabinets from home digital code safes, dial combination lock safes, outdoor key safes to old vintage safes.

No matter what type of safe you have, one of our specialist MLA approved locksmiths will be able to open and repair your safe.

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Many safes can be opened none destructively with no damage to the safe, some safes may require a small hole to be used to view the workings of the safe.

An MLA approved safe locksmith will be able to open your safe using a variety of methods from picking or manipulating the lock, wires, making up keys to drilling.

Drilling is a common opening technique in safe opening, which requires expect knowledge as to where to drill a hole to help open the safe.

Yes, digital safes can be opened if you have forgotten the code, the code is not working or the digital safe won’t open.

There are many ways to open digital safes from splicing and re-wiring keypads, to the use of electronics to de-code the lock, although many digital safes may need to be drilled open.

Drilling a digital safe is often the only way to open a good quality digital lock, as the whole point is to slow down the progress of any would be burglar.

Any forced entry by a good safe engineer will leave the safe in full working order once completed.

Yes, if you have forgotten the combination to a dial safe it can be opened by manipulating the lock,

Mechanical combination locks have been in use for well over 100 years, and many can be manipulated given time and the right conditions.

As with all opening techniques, it is often necessary to drill a small hole to use borescopes and other special tools to allow the engineer to view the internal mechanics of the lock.

Again, any forced entry by a good safe engineer will leave the safe in full working order once completed.

Yes, in most cases, a digital safe can be opened if the batteries are dead.  The power system can normally be overridden to open the safe, then change the batteries.

Quite often a digital safe will have a key override which can be picked open to allow access to open the digital safe.

Yes, most of the time an outdoor key safe can be opened if you have forgotten the keypad code or the key safe just won’t open.

An MLA approved safe locksmith will be able to manipulate the combination lock, but sometimes may have to resort to drilling the outdoor safe.

However, we recommend being mindful of the low cost of an outdoor safe against the time involved in trying to actually open the safe. Sometimes buying a new outdoor key safe is cheaper.

An MLA approved safe locksmiths will always attempt to open a safe without damaging using methods such as picking, made up keys, electronic interrogators, power surge, lock wires etc.

In the event of a failure of a component (mechanical or electronic), it may be necessary to carry out a forced open (i.e drill a small hole to investigate the internals) and repair / override the damaged component before being able to open the safe.

Any forced entry by a good safe engineer will leave the safe in full working order once completed.

Yes, absolutely, many of our safe opening locksmiths operate a mobile locksmith service so can visit where the safe is and open the safe.

Whilst unlikely to be possible due to weight and it being fixed to the floor, if you have a small safe and would prefer to take your safe to the locksmith, a number of our locksmiths run and operate locksmith shops.

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Yes, we have over 340 locksmiths in the UK, with over 250 specialising in opening secuirty safes, cabinets & vaults of all sizes.

Our safe opening locksmiths are located across all of England, London, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

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