Safe won’t open? what to do when you are locked out of your safe

There are many reasons when safe will not open, but the purpose is always same, we try to figure out how to get back our locked safe. You just need to collect some information in order to regain access to your locked safe. You can call locksmith dubai to assist you any time. So, here are some basic and important things that you need to know when you are locked out of your safe.

Ways to open your safe:

  1. Lock overrides
  2. Manipulation
  3. Violent Entry
  4. Safe Bouncing

Determining Type of Your Safe

It’s important to know what kind of safe you have, before deciding what to do next. When you try to open your safe yourself, it is almost impossible and the only thing that comes in your mind is “my safe will not open”, “what to do now”.

 If you know the brand name, there is possibility that you can unlock your safe. brand name is mostly written on the front door of the safe or there will be company’s logo. But it is not necessary that logo is a name of manufacturer, it can be any illustration or symbol. Now, after figuring out that logo does not reveal any information of manufacturer or company, then what is the next step? Another possibility is that you won’t be able to open your safe, because it is not a “safe” rather it is a lockbox. Lockboxes and safes both are two different things.

All the things that are discussed above leads me to a result that if you don’t know the type of your safe, you will never be able to open your safe. You just need to do one thing, just call Locksmith Dubai we will provide you all possible services regarding safe opening and will figure out what’s wrong, and then make sure that you are not locked out of your safe any longer than necessary.

Winchester Safes:


Winchester safes are different from other safes. They have a process through which you can request for your lost combination. They use Sargent, Greenleaf and mechanical digital locks. These are some of the most secure commercial locks that cannot be easily opened. To maintain the integrity of your Winchester safe, you must contact Dubai Locksmith. Locksmith Dubai provide best safe opening service in Dubai. Winchester safe uses battery in their locking mechanism, and their battery can be changed, this thing makes it more secure.

Sentry Safes:


When the batteries of Sentry safes fail, company provides many ways to replace the battery when they die. Sentry safes are lower end safes. This process is done by professionals. Locksmith in Dubai can surely provide their services and facilitate the people in this regard.

Cannon Safes:


Cannon safes have five minutes lock-out option. You will not be able to open the safe during this time. This is a security feature of Cannon safe that prevents unauthorized access of users from using Brute Force (trying all possible combinations)to guess the combination.

Lock Overrides:

Overrides are installed in smaller safes with electronic keyboard. These safes are mostly used in hotels because if a guest forgets his/her lock, hotel’s owners will be able to get in, because these are intended to have more combinations.

More often, there is a factory reset code, that comes in standard to reset the codes, the most common combination for these types of safes is repetitive zeros, number of lengths may vary but it is almost the same length as safe’s standard combination length. In this way override code can be changed.

There is a switch in most of the electronic safes, that when flipped allow you to reset the combination. But this method is somehow difficult when it comes of doing by yourself, you need to contact the locksmith. We can greatly help you in this regard, just contact Locksmith Dubai, and you will get best services.

Manipulation:

Safe manipulation is the type of safe cracking in which you spin the dial to open the lock. It requires knowledge, practice, and natural talent. You cannot get back into your own safe unless you are highly trained. Safe opening service from Dubai Locksmith, by using their services for locking mechanisms that can be manipulated without any harm. There are some methods of manipulation that require destructive entry, e.g., a hole will have to be bored into safe and later on some tools and probes will be inserted. However, a safe opened in this way will not be that secure as it was before. But most of the unauthorized users will still not be able to exploit the safe.

Violent Entry:

There are many cases when you urgently need to get into the safe and do not have time for delicate methods, for example you have some documents in safe and you urgently need to go for the meeting and those documents are required in your meeting, then you can go for violent entry.

Another reason for the violent entry is if the safe does not open due to damage. Lock of safe may be jammed or broken so it cannot open properly. So, violent entry is the requirement at this time.

Many people mistook it as destructive entry, but both of them are totally different things. Violent entry is way more severe than Destructive entry; it compromises its security far too much that it won’t be safe for the further use.

An important thing to remember is that, you can’t do this (violent entry) by yourself, there are some tools and techniques that you can’t handle, so you need to call a Locksmith for it. We are providing our services across Dubai, so you just need to call Locksmith Dubai to get best Safe Opening Services from our experienced Technicians.

Safe Bouncing:

Many cheap/small safes use a locking pin to prevent the movement of internal bolt in safe and uses a metal solenoid to move the pin when correct credentials are entered. This pin can also be moved by dropping the safe while on its side, which allows the safe to be opened.

Better safes have lightweight mechanisms so the lock is held in place even when the safe is moving.

Safe bouncing:

  1. Works only on light weight safes
  2. If the safe does not open, repeat the same process.

Now, don’t you think that your safe will not open. Your safe can be opened, you can call and avail our services 24/7 in all over the country, so if you are facing any issue feel free to contact Locksmith Dubai to get best Safe Opening Service.

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