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We were called to open this unusual Fichet-Bauche safe at a residence in Ormskirk due to a lost combination. The lock uses four separate clickers to set the combination after which the key can be used to retract the boltwork to open the door.
Fichet-Bauche is of French origin and came about through the merger of the Fichet and Bauche companies in 1967.
The owner of this Digital home safe in Ormskirk, Lancashire could not open his safe. The last time it was opened it seemed that the batteries were flat so he changed them and locked it up again. Unfortunately the digital lock would no longer open the safe and the key had been lost. We arrived on site twenty minutes after receiving the call and had it open within a couple of minutes. We tested the batteries which all showed to have sufficient power and had to advise that it was beyond economical repair due to the low cost of a new unit and the lack of availability of spare parts.
The owner of a nightclub in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire could not get his safe open to access the float required to open for business this evening. We attended on very short notice and opened the Charvat Neutron Star safe without damage and returned it to service. If you are out having a good time in Newcastle-under-Lyme this evening then you may well have a safe engineer to thank, stay safe and enjoy.
The staff at a shop in Ellesmere Port could not open their Dudley safe and the keypad to the La Gard AuditGard lock was dangling freely off the safe. We opened the failed lock and replaced it.
The keys had been lost to this Securikey Safeguard under floor safe in Ramsbottom. We attended the job the same evening as the call came in as it urgently required opening. Having picked the lock open we rekeyed it to provide a new set of keys.
We were called to a hotel chain in Glossop, Derbyshire as the key was stuck in this Dudley Harlech safe. We found that the boltwork had worked itself loose and required some minor repairs. This sort of job highlights that safes require regular servicing just like anything else mechanical. You wouldn’t dream of of running your car without regular maintenance and yet most people notice that something is not quite right with their safe but leave it until it finally fails before getting it seen to. This usually coincides with some important event that requires immediate access to the safe and often the replacement of parts that would not have broken if tended to sooner. The proverb ‘A stitch in time saves nine’ is very much true, if you notice a problem with your safe then call us out sooner rather than later.
The keys had been lost to this Sentry F2300 Waterproof Fire Chest in Ashton-in-Makerfield. We attended the private residence and opened it without damage so that the owners could retrieve their documents.
We were called to open this Epic Challenger safe at a Gym in Manchester for a second time this year. This time the Kaba Mas Auditcon lock was failing to open with the known combination. Once again we opened it up for them and put the safe back into service.
The Crado Hideaway is a rather unique under floor safe which has three separate dials which can be independently set to a number ranging from zero to nineteen. Each dial must be set correctly in order to retract the boltwork and allow the lid to be opened. The safe was made by Crado Devices Limited which were a London based company incorporated in 1975 but who unfortunately went into liquidation in 1981.
Although we were aware of this safe we haven’t to date been tasked with opening one so when this unit came up for sale we just had to have it out of professional curiosity. Safe engineers are a rather strange breed, we just love to tinker and see how things work so when this arrived in the workshop we were all over it like kids at Christmas. It didn’t take us long to set a random combination and open it using existing knowledge and techniques but it was still a great pleasure to finally see exactly how they work and to ultimately be able to use that knowledge to open them non-destructively.
So if you have a Crado Hideaway safe that you require opening then please do get in touch as it would be a pleasure to be able to open it for you.
The batteries had run out of power on this Yale digital safe at a home in Prescot, Liverpool. The keys were also with a family member who was out of the country so they had no way of opening it. We attended and opened it for them without causing any damage so that the batteries could be changed and the key would still work when it was available again.