Locksmith in Amadora

About our service in Amadora

Where to start, when everything in a building is the same age, is a fair question. Our answer is: whatever protects the most people, then whatever is easiest to reach from outside, then whatever is annoying you daily. That normally puts the communal entrance first — a door that no longer latches leaves every flat in the block relying on its own lock — followed by ground-floor openings, and then the flat door itself. Doing it in that order gets the most benefit out of the first appointment, and it lets a condominium spread work across time without leaving the obvious gap open. Ground-floor and rear-facing flats are where Amadora's metalwork really matters. Grilles over windows, gates onto yards and drying areas, the door from the block into the back court: these were fitted at construction and have spent decades in the weather. Nine times out of ten the bars themselves are perfectly sound and the failure is at the anchoring or the hardware — a fixing corroded out of the render, a hinge that has dropped, a lock that seized years ago and has been ignored since. Re-anchoring, rehanging and refitting proper hardware is a better result than replacing sound ironwork with something lighter, and it is a great deal less disruptive. Inside the flats, the picture is what you would expect after this many years: entrance locks closing at one point, key sets that have grown through decades of copying, mechanisms that have started to grind. Upgrading is usually simple because the doors themselves are solid — it is the lock that has aged, not the leaf. We also do the neglected items nobody claims: letterboxes, storage cages, the door to the roof terrace, the gate at the side of the building. If you are already standing outside a closed door, that is our blocked-door service. What a quote comes to depends on the type and grade of lock, the number of closing points, the state of the door or grille and how many keys you need.

Jobs we handle throughout Amadora:

Services Included

• Communal entrance doors made to latch and lock properly again, with a new key set for the block
• Ground-floor grilles and yard gates re-anchored, rehung and given working hardware
• Original single-point flat door locks upgraded to security locks
• Letterboxes, storage cages, roof-terrace and side doors repaired
• Key sets cut and checked in the lock to retire decades of poor copies

Areas We Serve

We work across Alfragide, the Reboleira, the Damaia, the Venteira, the Falagueira, the Brandoa and the Casal de São Brás, including the blocks where the only vehicle access is a service road behind.

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