by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Oct 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
So far you’ve read all about different types of locks and cylinders you can have on your front door. But the story is far from finished! A secure front door needs more than just locks. Here we’ll go over a few additional door security items that you could install on...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Sep 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
A lot of our customers ask if there’s a way to stop people from copying their keys. The answer to that – obviously 😉 – is yes, YES, YES! The way to do this is using ‘security’ cylinders. It’s a bit of a stupid name, because all cylinders provide some degree of...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Aug 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Return of the Road Trip The pattern recurs every summer: Britons are packing their cars ahead of their road-trip holiday, only to realise that their roofbox key is missing. With days to spare, they contact us via our key-cutting form, and manage to get a key in...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Aug 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
For a few years now, there has been a new breed of cylinder on the market: the anti-everything cylinder. These are anti-pick, anti-snap, anti-bump and anti-drill cylinders that are extremely tricky to open. They’re the bane of a locksmith’s life, really, because if...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Jul 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
We’ve spoken a lot about Yale locks so far, especially about auto-deadlocking Yales. Why, if the Yale lock acts as a deadlock, do you need another deadlock underneath? Isn’t that overkill? No, of course it’s not! Don’t ever be fooled into thinking it is. A Yale lock,...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Jun 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
How to Take Pictures of Your Key In many cases, we need to have clear photos of your key before we can make copies. Here is a guide to show you how best to take photos of keys. Here is the long and the short of it. Lower down, you can also find some more specific...
