Locksmith in Carcavelos

About our service in Carcavelos

If you have just moved into a rented house or flat here, the single most useful thing you can do is change the cylinder on the entrance door. It is not a comment on your landlord. A property that has been let repeatedly to arriving families has issued keys to previous tenants, to cleaners, to agents, to maintenance people and to whoever was shown round, and none of those can be recalled. Landlords are generally quite reasonable about it provided the original lock is kept and returned at the end, which is exactly how we do it: the removed cylinder goes into a bag with a label so the property can be put back as it was when you leave. The beach is the other constant. Anything metal that lives outdoors near Carcavelos praia is dealing with salt, and the results show up first on the fittings nobody looks at — the gate at the side of the house, the padlock on the garden store, the rail on the front steps, the hinges of a shutter. The visible bar can be perfectly sound while the pivot or the fixing into the wall has gone. We repair and rehang gates and railings, replace outdoor hardware with fittings that stand up better to this exposure, and mount them so that water runs off rather than sitting in the mechanism, which is the detail that decides how long the next one lasts. The rest is ordinary maintenance that this kind of housing tends to accumulate. Doors whose keys have to be encouraged; entrance doors that have never had more than one closing point since the house was built; a garage side door that has not locked in years; letterbox locks in the shared entrance of a rental block; and the perennial one, a fistful of keys cut in a hurry at some point in the past that fit badly and are wearing the mechanism a little more each day. Better to cut a clean set and retire the rest. A quote depends on the grade of lock, the number of closing points, the state of the door or gate and how many keys you want.

Regular work we take on in Carcavelos:

Services Included

• Entrance cylinders changed on arrival, with the original kept and labelled for the landlord
• Gates, railings and outdoor fittings repaired or renewed against salt exposure
• Single-point entrance doors upgraded to a security lock closing at several points
• Garage side doors, garden stores and shutters put back in working order
• Clean key sets cut to replace worn copies that are damaging the lock

Areas We Serve

We work all around Carcavelos — the streets behind the praia, Sassoeiros, Rana, Lombos and the Junqueiro — and we are used to fitting appointments around school runs and handover dates.

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