A lock rarely fails without warning. It gets stiff, then it needs the handle lifted, then it needs the door pushed, and then one morning it does not turn at all. Caught at the stiff stage, most of them are a repair. Caught at the last stage, in the rain, they are a lockout.
Call Now: 03 8400 0947Worn pins, a dropped door, a misaligned strike plate, a seized cylinder, a snapped spring, a latch that no longer throws. All of these are routine fixes and all of them cost less than new hardware. We only recommend replacement when the repair genuinely will not hold.
Weatherboard and brick veneer housing stock across Preston, Reservoir and Fawkner shifts with the seasons, and a door that drops even two millimetres will fight its own strike plate. Half our repair work is realignment rather than anything wrong with the lock itself.
A key snapped in the cylinder is not a reason to replace the lock. We extract the remnant, check the cylinder for damage, cut you a fresh key and leave the hardware where it is.
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Usually not. That symptom almost always means the latch or bolt is catching on a strike plate that has moved out of alignment. It is a quick adjustment and it does not need new hardware.
Yes. We carry parts and know the failure patterns for Lockwood, Whitco, Gainsborough, Yale, Carbine, Assa Abloy and the common European cylinder brands, which covers essentially everything fitted in Melbourne.
Nearly always, and we will tell you when it is not. If a lock is at the end of its life we say so rather than charging you for a repair that fails again in three months.
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