Low-Budget Repairs hides a surprising number of locked doors and safes across its renovation jobs. The codes are never handed to you outright. Instead, the game expects you to read the environment: check photos, inspect garden ornaments, flip paintings, and match images to rooms. This guide covers every code across the Home, Mansion, Storage Space, Police Station, and The Fight for Gold episode, along with exactly where to find each clue so you understand the logic rather than just punching in numbers blind.
All safe and door codes
Need a quick reference before you start hunting? Here's every code in one table.
Home codes: where are the clues?
Low-Budget Repairs Guide: All Secret Door and Safe Codes
First locked door (code: 1974)
The first locked door you hit is inside your aunt's house. Don't look far. There's a photo sitting on the windowsill, and the year printed on that photo is the code. Inspect it directly and you'll see 1974 clearly displayed.
Second locked door (code: 9217)
This one takes more legwork. Four garden gnomes are scattered around the property, and each one has a digit stamped on its base. Two gnomes sit in the front yard, one is tucked into the left corner of the backyard, and the fourth is up on the right side of the roof. Flip each gnome and collect the four digits. Combine them in order and you get 9217.
If that doesn't open the door, try 9271. The digit order appears to vary between saves, so the code is a permutation of those four numbers.
Mansion codes: paintings and license plates
Low-Budget Repairs Guide: All Secret Door and Safe Codes
Secret door (code: 4916)
The Mansion's secret door pulls its code from the car you cleaned outside. Check the license plate on that vehicle and the number sequence gives you 4916.
Mansion safe (code: 371830)
For the safe, you need to check behind every painting hanging in the mansion. Each one conceals a single digit. Collect all the numbers and arrange them in the correct order to get 371830.
Storage Space safe
Code: 438959
The safe is inside the Storage Space area. The clue isn't near the safe itself. Instead, look on top of the large closet directly opposite the safe. Two alarm clocks sit up there, each displaying a number. Combine both clock numbers and you have the code.
Police Station safe: how does the room number puzzle work?
Code: 130267
This one is the most involved. Find the note pinned to the board inside the police station. It shows three small images: a crown, a chair, and a phone. Each image corresponds to a specific room in the building.
Locate each matching room and note its number:
Combine those in order and you get 130267.
Low-Budget Repairs Guide: All Secret Door and Safe Codes
The Fight for Gold safe: what's the sequence?
Code: 27-32-58
This safe appears in the Janusz House during The Fight for Gold episode. Flip over the Post-it note in the area and check the back. It lists a specific order:
- Church
- Fire Station
- Mural
- Basement
- Helena
- Safe
Following that sequence gives you the code 27-32-58.
Final notes
Every code in Low-Budget Repairs is tied to a physical clue in the environment, so the game rewards players who actually look around rather than rushing through jobs. The gnome hunt in the Home level and the painting search in the Mansion are the two that catch most players off guard simply because the clues are spread across the whole space rather than sitting next to the lock.
For more help with the game, the full Low-Budget Repairs guides collection covers collectibles, achievements, and walkthroughs. If you enjoy this kind of hands-on puzzle solving wrapped in a sim format, there's plenty more worth exploring across indie games with similar hidden-detail mechanics.