Locks tend to warn you. First it is stiff, then it wants a lift or a jiggle, then one morning the key turns and nothing moves. Caught at the warning stage most of this is a repair, and repairs keep hardware that matches the rest of the house.
Call Now: 03 4821 3333Worn cylinders, dropped doors, misaligned strikes, seized mechanisms, snapped keys and stiff mortice locks. The common failures are common for a reason and the parts for them travel in the van.
A door that only locks if you lift it is a hinge and alignment problem wearing a lock's uniform. The weatherboards through Ringwood East and Croydon move with the seasons, and the low ground around Bulleen and Chelsea Heights keeps timber damp enough to swell. We adjust the door and the strike and the lock is suddenly fine.
Within a few streets of the water at Seaford, Bonbeach, Carrum and Edithvale, hardware corrodes years faster than it does inland. Replacing like with like there just restarts the clock, so we fit treated or marine-grade where the exposure justifies it.
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Usually extractable without replacing anything. The one thing that turns a ten-minute job into a new lock is attacking it with pliers or a screwdriver first, so please leave it where it is until we arrive.
That is almost always the door or its hinges rather than the lock. We realign the door and the strike plate so it closes on its own weight, which is both cheaper and a permanent fix.
Usually, and it keeps hardware that still matches your other doors. Where a mechanism is past saving we say so rather than nursing it, and we price both options so the choice is yours.
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