Locksmith in Algueirão-Mem Martins

About our service in Algueirão-Mem Martins

Start with the seasonal complaint, because it is the one most often misdiagnosed. If a door becomes stiff every winter and behaves itself in summer, the mechanism is rarely the culprit: the leaf has absorbed moisture and grown, the frame has moved a little too, and the lock is now the thing being asked to drag the two into agreement. Replace the lock and you will have a new mechanism suffering exactly the same abuse by January. The proper repair is to get the door hanging and closing correctly again — hinges, keeps, easing where it binds — and only then to look at whether the lock itself has been damaged by the months of forcing. The second job is generational. A lot of these flats still have their original entrance lock, closing at a single point, and have been through several households and many sets of copied keys. That combination gives you a mechanism that is worn internally and a level of protection well below what a modern security lock provides. It is worth saying plainly that the door is usually fine; it is what is inside it that has aged. Changing the cylinder is the quick option, upgrading the whole lock is the thorough one, and which we recommend depends on what we find when we look at the door rather than on a general rule. Around all that sits the usual list for dense residential blocks: shared entrances whose keys no longer suit the lock, letterboxes, storage rooms and the doors onto rear yards and drying areas, plus the metalwork on ground-floor grilles and gates where the fixings have corroded in the damp. We also cut keys properly — checked in the actual lock, not just measured — because the poor copy that half works is one of the most common reasons a mechanism reaches us dead. A quote reflects the state of the door, the type and grade of lock, the number of closing points and the number of keys required.

What we do most often here:

Services Included

• Doors that swell and bind in the wet months rehung and eased so the lock stops taking the strain
• Original single-point locks replaced with security locks on sound existing doors
• Cylinders changed when a flat changes hands or is re-let
• Ground-floor grilles, yard doors and drying-area gates repaired and re-anchored
• Keys cut and tested in the door to replace copies that are wearing the mechanism

Areas We Serve

We work in Algueirão, Mem Martins, the Serra das Minas, the Tapada das Mercês and the Rinchoa, including the blocks on the slopes where the entrance is a level or two below the street.

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