ABUS Key Garage - Wall Mounting - Push Button Key Storage Box – KG747LC

ABUS Key Garage KG747LC - Wall Mounted Key Safe, Push Button Combination, Black

The ABUS Key Garage KG747LC is a steel key safe that screws to a wall and opens on a push button combination you set yourself. That mechanism is the whole reason to choose it. On the dial models - the KG787C and the padlock-style KG797C - you scroll four number wheels into line every time you want a key. Here you press the buttons and the door drops open. In the dark, in the rain, with a phone in one hand and a toolbag in the other, that difference is the one people actually notice.

It is the larger of the two push-button wall boxes ABUS makes; the compact KG767C is the other. The door is hinged and drops down, and a full-size cover sits over the buttons when the safe is closed to keep grit and weather off the mechanism. The body and the back plate are steel. Nine of our own installations are in the gallery tab - brick, render, corrugated steel and a painted timber post - so you can see how it sits before you drill.

There is no battery, no app, no pairing and no cylinder to pick. The combination can be reset by the owner, which is what makes it useful for a rental, a trade visit or anyone who has to hand access to someone and take it back afterwards. Browse the rest of the key storage range if you are still deciding between formats.

Key Features

• Push button entry, not dials. Press a code rather than scroll four number wheels into line. It is faster with cold or wet hands, faster in the dark, and it is the real difference between this box and the dial-operated KG787C and KG797C.
• The combination is yours to set and reset. Change it when a trade finishes, a tenant moves out or a guest checks out - the point of a combination is that you can retire access without changing a lock.
• Hinged drop-down door with a full-size dust cover. The cover sits over the buttons while the safe is closed, which is what keeps grit, spray and weather out of the mechanism between uses.
• Steel body and steel back plate. It is a fixed installation - the back plate is what carries the fixings into brick, render, timber or sheet.
• The bigger of the two push-button wall boxes. The compact KG767C is the same mechanism in a smaller body, for households that only ever store one set.
• Completely mechanical. No battery, no app, no phone, no pairing, nothing to go flat. It works in a blackout exactly as it works on any other day - see the rest of the key storage range for the alternatives.

Suitable Uses

• Households sharing one set of keys. Teenagers, house-sitters, a neighbour watering the plants, the family member who locks themselves out twice a year. One code, no cutting more keys. Our guide to how a combination key safe actually works walks through the mechanism if you have never used one.
• Holiday lets and short-stay properties. Change the code between guests, with no app, no account and nothing for a guest to install. Chapter 7 of our Buyer's Guide sets out the two ways hosts handle key handover - a key safe at the door is one of them, a keypad lock on the door is the other.
• Trades, cleaners and carers on scheduled visits. Give out the current code for the visit, change it afterwards. This is one of the everyday jobs covered in key safe uses beyond the beach, alongside carers, house-sitters and property managers.
• Anywhere the spare key is currently under a mat or a pot. That is the habit this replaces, and our piece on why the traditional hiding places do not work is worth two minutes of anybody's time before they decide a hidden key is good enough.
• Wall space beside a door, a garage, a meter box or a gate. It is a permanent fixture, so it wants a spot that is reachable but not on display from the street. If you would rather not leave a key outside the house at all, a battery-free keypad lock on the door itself solves the same problem a different way - that is the digital mechanical locks range, a different class of product entirely.

Available Finish Options

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  Black
  (This Product)
  STK KG747LC

One finish only. Finish selection does not affect functionality, compliance, or performance.

ABUS Key Garage - Item Code Family

This product is the bold row. The two push-button relatives sit directly beneath it: the compact KG767C if a smaller wall box will do, and the shackle-mounted KG777C if it needs to hang off something rather than be screwed to a wall. Everything below those is dial-operated, apart from the Bluetooth KG787BTC, which is the only model in the family that records who opened it.

Full Specifications

What we can and cannot confirm about the figures
One ABUS document covers this box: the eight-page Key Garage range brochure linked below, printed in 2013. Its push-button page is headed KG747 and its specification table is headed KG747C - our item code carries the LC suffix, and no ABUS document we hold names that code. Read the brochure's figures as the documentation for the 747 rather than a confirmed specification for this exact item code: a 65 x 100 x 40 mm body, 0.72 kg, and room for twelve keys. Nothing in it gives a weather or ingress rating, a code length, or box contents, so this page quotes none of those, and specifications are not borrowed from the 787 or 767 to fill the gap. If a figure matters to your decision, ask our team and we will confirm it with ABUS before you buy.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the real difference between the push button models and the dial models?
Speed and feel, and nothing else about the security. A dial box like the KG787C or the portable KG797C asks you to turn four number wheels to the right digits every time. A push-button box like this one asks you to press a code. If the safe is used daily, or used in the dark, or used by people wearing gloves or carrying things, the buttons win easily. If it is opened twice a year, the difference hardly matters and the dial models are worth comparing on price and size. The illuminated KG787LEDC is the dial answer to the dark-doorway problem.

Can I change the code myself after it is on the wall?
Yes - it is a resettable push button mechanism, set by the owner rather than fixed at the factory, and that is the main reason to fit one. Change it whenever the list of people who know it changes: a trade finishes, a tenant moves out, a guest checks out. We do not hold an ABUS reset sheet for this particular model, so if you want the sequence walked through before you commit, ask our team and we will go through it with you.

Can it be mounted outside?
In a protected position, yes - most of the installations in our gallery are outdoors, under an awning, inside a garage or on the sheltered side of a wall. The full-size cover over the buttons is there for exactly this reason. What we will not do is quote a weather rating: ABUS gives this model no ingress or weather rating in any document we hold, so treat it as a sheltered-outdoor product rather than something to bolt to an exposed fence in driving rain and full afternoon sun. On the Gold Coast, salt air is the thing that shortens a mechanism's life - our notes on keeping a key safe working in coastal conditions set out the routine, and the best-practice piece on which key to leave and where is worth reading alongside it.

How many keys does it hold?
The brochure's KG747C table gives a capacity of twelve keys, which is the figure ABUS documents for this model - though the brochure never names the LC code, so treat it as indicative rather than a guarantee for this exact item. In practice capacity always depends on what you are putting in: flat house keys stack neatly, while transponder car keys, chunky fobs and heavy tags take up several times the room. If several sets of keys have to live in one place, the large-capacity dial box KG787BIG is the model built for that job. If you only ever store one set, the compact KG767C will do.

Is there a key override if the code is forgotten?
No. There is no cylinder, no override key and no factory reset from the outside - the combination is the only way in, which is also why there is no keyway for anyone to pick. That trade-off is standard across mechanical key safes and it is covered properly in our explainer on what a mechanical key override actually is. Practically: write the code down somewhere that is not the safe, and make sure one other person you trust knows it. The security chapter of our Buyer's Guide answers the wider "is this actually secure?" question.

Additional Information

Choosing between this, the compact model and the portable ones
Three questions settle it. Does it need to be permanent? If yes, this or the compact KG767C; if it needs to move between a gate, a boat and a bike rack, the shackle-mounted KG777C is the push-button model that hangs rather than screws, and the KG737C Mini is the smallest of the lot. Buttons or dials? Buttons here, dials on the KG787C and KG797C. And one that catches people out: this is a wall box and it does not go on a car. The KG777AD automotive window adaptor replaces the shackle on the KG777C and KG797C for that job, and the KGCABLEC flexible cable suits the same two models where a shackle will not reach.

Getting the mounting right matters more than people expect
The back plate is only as good as what it is screwed into. Solid brick and concrete take a plug and screw happily; render over foam, single-skin fibro and hollow sheet do not, and that is where a key safe ends up being pulled off a wall rather than opened. Pick a spot that is reachable in the dark but not visible from the street, and keep it out of the direct line of the weather. We do this daily - professional supply and installation covers the work, and if you are still weighing up formats, book a free site survey and we will look at the wall first.

How it sits against the other wall-mounted key safes we stock
The closest push-button rivals are the Kidde KeySafe S5 - available in titanium, white and clay for walls that are not dark - and the Carbine wall-mounted key safe with button combination, which is the direct like-for-like in a large body. If you want a fitted weather cover as part of the product, the Kidde KeySafe Pro S7 is the step up; note that the Kidde cover is made for the Kidde box and does not fit an ABUS Key Garage. And if attack resistance is the priority rather than convenience, the Wolflok maximum security key safe is a heavier, harder box for the same job. The full key storage range has them side by side.

When a mechanical box is not enough
A shared code has one weakness: everybody who has ever been given it still has it, and nothing tells you who opened the safe or when. If that matters - a managed property, several trades, a handover you may have to prove - the KG787BTC Smart Bluetooth is the only Key Garage that issues codes to named users, expires them on a schedule and keeps a record of openings. It costs more and it takes batteries, which is exactly the trade-off. Our piece on storing the override key outside the house is the wider context, and the practical use chapter of the Buyer's Guide covers the day-to-day questions that apply whichever you pick.

Who ABUS are, and where a key safe fits
ABUS is a German security manufacturer, best known here for padlocks, chains and bike security, with the Key Garage range sitting alongside them. Our profile of the commercial and institutional brands we stock puts them in context against the rest. Worth being straight about the alternative people usually consider first: a magnetic hide-a-key or a fake rock relies entirely on nobody looking in the obvious place. The case for and against key hiders sets out why a code beats a hiding spot. If you would rather talk it through than read, ask our team for a recommendation.

Warranty

Warranty
ABUS products are backed by a manufacturer's warranty covering defects in materials and workmanship. Warranty periods vary by product - contact us or refer to your product packaging for the period that applies to your model. All warranties are supported under the Australian Consumer Law. Proof of purchase required for all claims. Returns & Warranty | ABUS warranty & returns information

Download PDF Resources

ABUS Key Garage Range Brochure (PDF)
Eight-page ABUS range brochure organised by locking mechanism. Page 3 is the push-button large-capacity page that covers this box - headed KG747, with a specification table headed KG747C - and page 4 covers the compact KG767C and the shackle-mounted KG777C. Pages 5 and 6 cover the dial models, and page 7 the automotive window adaptor. An ABUS print run from 2013, and the only document in our library that covers a 747.