source: http://www.lincs.police.uk/News-Centre/News-Releases-2012/21-02-2012-Lock-Snapping.html Police Advice on Lock Snapping As a direct result of the BBC Inside Out programme aired Monday 20 February 2012 Lincolnshire Police have issued the following information. What is Lock snapping ? As the title would suggest this is where the lock cylinder is literally snapped into two by applying torque i.e. force…
source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-17075027 A quarter of all burglaries in West Yorkshire are being committed by criminals using a technique called “lock snapping”, police have revealed. Since 2009, there has been a rise in the technique, which involves applying force and snapping the cylinder in two. West Yorkshire Police said it was mainly prevalent with euro cylinder…
Our locksmith in NW2 was called out to a property near Cricklewood following a break in. The customers keys had been stolen so the locks needed to be changed in their North London home. Our locksmith upgraded the existing locks to high security restricted key locks and keyed alike both locks so 1 key operated…
Our locksmith in NW6 was called out to replace a Chubb lock and a Yale lock in Kensal Rise, North London. Both locks had become worn and increasingly hard to open because of badly cut keys in the past. Badly cut keys can cause locks to wear unevenly and can even result in you being…
Our locksmith in welwyn garden city was called out to a job to replace 2 cylinders on a commercial premises in welwyn garden city
This week, one of our locksmith team attended a job to change an Ingersol cylinder on a front door in Mill Hill, North-West London. The existing keys were not turning in the lock properly because the cylinder had become worn over the years. Our locksmith replaced the Ingersol cylinder with a Mul-T-Lock restricted key cylinder. It…
Our locksmith in Watford attended a property to change the lock on a upvc front door
One of our locksmiths recently attended a job the customer had lost the key for the back wooden door in his North London home. The property in Finchley, was fitted with a 5 lever sash lock. Our locksmith opened the existing lock and replaced it with a British standard (bs 3621) insurance approved sash lock,…
Our locksmith in NW3 attended an emergency lock out in Belsize Park. The customer had accidentally left their keys inside their flat and closed the door behind them. Our locksmith was able to pick open the Yale lock cylinder without any damage to the lock and the customer was able to retrieve keys from inside.…
Our locksmith in Barnet was called out to replace a Chubb dead lock on a wooden door in barnet after the customers keys had been lost. Our locksmith changed the levers in the lock rather than replacing the complete lock. The lever replacement packs come complete with 2 keys. If you would like to book…
Our Locksmith in NW8 was called to attend a premises after the owner was worried that a previous tennant might have keys to there flat door. There were 3 locks on the door, 2 Chubb Locks and 1 Yale lock. We changed the Yale cylinder which was the cheaper of the 3, the customer was also supplied…
Our EC1 locksmith attended a flat in London, EC1 to replace a Banham lock on behalf of a solicitor. He replaced the Banham cylinder with an open key cylinder so keys can now be cut anywhere and are not restricted.
Our locksmith in London Colney attended a job to adjust a pair of Upvc French doors. The locking mechanism was not lining up with the lock keeps stopping the door from closing properly. He adjusted the keeps and serviced the Upvc door lock. It’s now operating fine.
We were called out to an office by the managing agents to open 2 shutters and replace the locks as the previous tenants had left with all the keys. Our locksmith opened both shutters and fitted new locks then delivered the keys to our client.
Our locksmith in SW1 had to open a euro cylinder on a commercial APG door, because the client had lost a set of keys. Our locksmith opened the euro cylinder and replaced it with a new one.
One of our locksmiths was call out to change a cam lock on a cabinet at a property in St Albans. A number of keys had gone missing, so the lock was replaced.