by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Mar 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
I went to the Stasi Museum in Leipzig back in 2017. It was fascinating beyond anything I could have imagined to learn what life must have been like in a police state run by the Stasi. The tour guide was saying how the Stasi enforcement officers would break into your...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Feb 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s hard to imagine an unbreakable lock. Practically everything can be got into, given plenty of time, and assuming nobody cares about the noise of a drill for hours on end. But there’s a locking solution that is, in a sense, dangerously unbreakable. Pad-eyes aren’t...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Jan 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
It wasn’t always this way, but nowadays cutting keys is quite a high-tech affair. In the olden days, keys would have been cut by hand, with a file. (Cutting mortice keys with a file is still part of the Master Locksmith Association exam.) These days, a great...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Dec 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
The poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) wrote one of America’s most important poems in 1883. Her sonnet, The New Colossus, is inscribed on New York’s impressive Statue of Liberty. It’s a poem welcoming those in search of freedom to America, giving...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Dec 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
A German chap came into our office once and was looking for some back door security advice. He had just moved to London from Germany, and couldn’t understand British home security: “You all put so much effort into keeping your front doors secure,” he started, “but...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Nov 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
We’ve written all about front door security for individual flats or homes, but what applies there doesn’t necessarily apply to a communal entrance door on a block of flats. The needs of the two doors are quite different. A flat door only needs to let in those who have...
