Locksmith in Campo de Ourique

About our service in Campo de Ourique

Start with the street door, because it is the one everybody complains about and nobody owns. In a building of this age the entrance lock has taken thousands of turns from keys that were copied from copies, and the result is a mechanism that has worn to fit no key particularly well. Residents adapt: you learn the angle, the little lift, the shove. Then one set of keys stops working entirely and the household concerned assumes their key is at fault when the lock is. Replacing the entrance lock and issuing a fresh set for the building is a condominium decision, and we are glad to describe the work in writing so it can be put to the other owners properly. Inside the flats, the most common job is the change on arrival. Nobody who takes over a flat in a building like this can say who still holds a key: previous tenants, relatives, the person who was looking in on an elderly owner, whoever helped with the move. Changing the lock is a short, self-contained appointment and it draws a clean line. It is also the moment to look honestly at what is fitted, since a good many doors here still close on a single point with hardware that predates the current occupant by a long way. Where the door itself is sound — and these solid old leaves usually are — the sensible improvement is a better lock in a properly anchored frame rather than a new door. The third thing we see constantly in Campo de Ourique is the lock that has started to protest. It grips halfway, the key needs a particular pressure, and the household has stopped noticing because everyone does it automatically. That is wear, and forcing it daily accelerates it until something inside gives, usually with the key in the lock and someone late for something. Attending to it while it still turns is a modest job. So are the smaller things people put off: a letterbox that will not lock, a stiff door onto the light well, a handle that has worked loose. What a quote comes to depends on the type and grade of lock, the number of locking points, the condition of the door and how many keys are cut.

What we are asked for most in Campo de Ourique:

Services Included

• Worn communal entrance locks replaced and new sets issued for the building
• Flat door locks changed when a new resident takes over
• Single-point locks on sound old doors upgraded to a security lock
• Sticking and heavy-turning locks repaired before they fail
• Letterbox locks, loose handles and light-well doors put back in order

Areas We Serve

We work throughout the neighbourhood — Prazeres, Santo Condestável, the Amoreiras end, the Rua Ferreira Borges and the streets around the market — and we carry our own kit up the stairs, since almost nothing here has a lift.

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