The spare key lives under the pot by the back door. Or under the mat, or on the ledge above the gate, or in a fake rock that fools nobody. Everyone knows this, everyone does it anyway, because the alternative is being locked out or driving home to let the cleaner in. This key lock box fixes it properly. It bolts to an outside wall, it opens on a code you choose, and the key stays in a steel box instead of under the first thing anyone would lift.

Why It Stands Out

• It bolts to the wall — four screws and four plugs supplied, so it isn't something that can be picked up and carried off the way a padlock-style box on a gate handle can.
• You set the code and you can change it — give it to a cleaner, a dog walker or a tradie, then change it when the job's done.
• A cover flap over the keypad — it folds down over the buttons, keeping weather off them and making the box read as a grey panel rather than a keypad from across the yard.
• 100 × 80 × 30 mm inside — that's a full set of house keys plus a car fob, or keys and a swipe card, not just one flat key.
• A hook inside, so the keys hang instead of rattling loose in the bottom where you have to fish for them.
• Metal body with a moulded cover — it lives outside permanently, and it's built to be left there.
• Nothing to charge and nothing to pair — no battery, no app, no wifi. It works in a blackout and it works in ten years.

Where to Fit It

• Beside the back door or the laundry door, out of sight from the street — the spot that replaces the pot the key is under now.
• On the garden shed, holding the shed key so you stop carrying it or hiding it under the step.
• Inside the side gate, where whoever needs access can reach it once they're through the gate but nobody can see it from the footpath.
• On the garage wall, for the mower key, the trailer key or the spare house key.
• Beside the pool gate or the pump housing, for the key to equipment you only touch twice a season.
• On a fence post or a brick pier near the back entry, for a holiday rental or a place you don't live at full time.
• In the carport, somewhere out of the weather and off the main approach.

How It Works

1. The body mounts flat to a wall — the four fixing holes are inside the box, so the screws are only reachable once it's open.
2. You press your code on the keypad, then turn the knob to release the door.
3. The code is mechanical, not electronic — nothing to power, nothing to go flat, and it resets to a new combination whenever you want.
4. The cover folds down over the keypad when you're done, which is what keeps rain and grit off the buttons.

How to Set It Up

1. Pick the spot before you drill. Out of sight from the street, under cover if you can manage it, and at a height you can reach without stretching.
2. Mark the four holes through the open box, drill, tap the plugs in and screw it on. Ten minutes with a drill.
3. Set your own code before the key goes in. It arrives with no code set — follow the sequence in the supplied manual. Four or five digits is the recommended length.
4. Test it ten times with the box empty, closing and opening it fully each time, before you trust a key to it.
5. Write the code down somewhere that isn't your phone's notes app, and close the keypad cover when you walk away.
Tip: mount it somewhere a visitor can be talked through finding it over the phone — "through the side gate, left hand side, under the tap" — but somewhere nobody walking past would ever notice. Those two things sound opposed and they aren't. Round a corner is the answer.

Care and Maintenance

• Keep the cover closed between uses. It's what keeps water and dust out of the buttons.
• Work the buttons once a month if you rarely open it — a mechanism that never moves is one that sticks.
• Wipe salt off it if you're near the coast, the same as you would any outdoor fitting.
• Change the code each time a tradesperson, house sitter or short-term guest no longer needs it.

Specifications

What's Included

• 1 × Key lock box
• 4 × Screws
• 4 × Wall plugs
• 1 × Instruction manual