by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Mar 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
A burglar’s carrier bag: the trouble with cheap hotel-style safes Having a safe at home is quite an attractive proposition. We all have valuables and important things we’d like to protect: jewellery, deeds to the house, a will, or just good old-fashioned...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Feb 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
A Day in the Life of a Locksmith Locksmithing isn’t really a nine-to-five like most jobs. Days can be very varied, and there’s not really such a thing as a ‘day in the life’. Still, here’s our closest approximation, so you can see what...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Jan 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Safe keys are tricky business. In a way, it’s reassuring that they are, because you wouldn’t want it to be too easy to get to your locked up valuables. But what good is reassurance if you’re struggling to get a spare key copied? If you’ve already lost one key, you’re...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Dec 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
As a rule, we don’t tend to get many time-wasters, but now and again people show up who are either deliberately prank-calling us, or have simply come to the wrong place by mistake. I’m a forgiving sort of chap, and hold no grudges against pranksters (with...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Nov 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
A turned curtain is when your key suddenly won’t go into your Chubb-type lock. The curtain is the not-quite-closed tube that constitutes the key-hole. This is a piece of metal that defines what key can fit. If I take your key and copy it onto the wrong type of...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Oct 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
“My key is just spinning in the lock.” This is a very common problem and, to understand why it happens, we need to discuss how cylinder locks work. The cylinder consists of a plug, which is pretty much the key hole, and then either a tailbar (if it’s...
