High security
High Security Locks
The kick is the most common attack on a residential door, and a standard strike plate held by two short screws fails to it. Reinforced strikes and door-edge wraps are the least glamorous part of high security and the part most often worth doing.
Which one do I need?
- Pry marks circle the dial after an overnight break-in attempt, and the safe now refuses every number that used to open it, as if something inside has locked itself down.Safe Opening & Combination Change
- The office is moving three blocks over, and the old commercial safe that has sat bolted to the concrete for fifteen years now needs to come out, travel across town, and go back down just as solidly.Safe Installation & Servicing
- You run a home office with client files and equipment, and your insurer has asked what kind of lock is on the door.High Security Locks
High Security Locks
Cylinders and deadbolts built to resist picking, bumping and drilling, keys that cannot be copied without authorisation, and safes opened or installed.
Safe Opening & Combination Change
Checking the bolt work and handle
A locked-out safe is not always a locked-out lock. The locksmith checks whether the handle turns normally, whether the bolt work is retracting at all, and whether resistance shows up at the handle rather than at the dial or keypad. A jammed bolt, a corroded linkage or a relocker that has dropped into place can all hold a door shut even when the correct combination is entered without complaint.
Sorting this out before assuming the lock has failed avoids replacing a perfectly good combination lock to solve a mechanical problem that sits elsewhere in the door.