Bundoora 3083 · Darebin council · North East
Locksmith Bundoora, VIC
Fix Mate is a mobile locksmith service covering Bundoora and the rest of North East Melbourne, 24 hours a day.
At roughly 15 km, Bundoora is comfortably inside the area we actually work rather than the area we advertise. The vans that cover Mill Park and Thomastown cover this too.
What locksmithing in Bundoora actually looks like
Bundoora carries a postcode of 3083 and about 28,068 residents, inside the Darebin council area. The addresses we see most run off Bent Street, Settlement Road and Grimshaw Street. If you are giving directions, RMIT University (Bundoora West Campus) is the reference point most people reach for. The nearest suburbs we also cover are Mill Park, Thomastown and Reservoir.
Houses on their own blocks are the norm in Bundoora, and the pattern that follows is predictable: a well-chosen front deadlock, and then five other openings nobody has thought about since the house was built. The garage side door, the sliding door onto the yard and the side gate are where the real gaps are, and they are the cheapest things on the property to fix. The strips along Bent Street and Settlement Road sit at the other end of the scale, cycling hardware dozens of times a day.
Bundoora is mostly owner-occupied, and it shows in what people ask for. Very little of the work is urgent; most of it is a lock that has annoyed somebody for a year, a door that has needed shouldering shut since winter, or a decision to bring the whole house onto one key. Owners also tend to keep hardware for decades, which makes repair — rather than replacement — the honest recommendation more often than not.
In Bundoora the usual request is straightforward and sensible: make the doors secure, make them take one key, and use something that will not need replacing again in three years. We work all through Bundoora 3083, from RMIT University (Bundoora West Campus) across to Bundoora Extended Care Centre and across the rest of the Darebin council area.
What we do in Bundoora
Each of these has its own page for Bundoora — what the job involves here specifically, not a general description of locksmithing.
Emergency Lockout in Bundoora
On a Bundoora house there is often more than one way back in, and it is worth thirty seconds on the phone to check before we drive: a laundry door, a…
Emergency Lockout in BundooraResidential Locksmith in Bundoora
A Bundoora house typically has five or six locks on it once you count the back door, the laundry, the garage side door, the gate and the shed. Bringing…
Residential Locksmith in BundooraCar Key Replacement in Bundoora
In Bundoora the car stays where it is. Keys are cut and programmed to the vehicle on site, including transponder and proximity keys, which is the whole…
Car Key Replacement in Bundoora
Suburbs next to Bundoora
The same vans cover these, which is why we can usually be at a Bundoora door quickly.
Locked out in Bundoora?
Tell us which door you're standing at and we'll tell you where the nearest van is before you commit to anything.
Locksmith questions — Bundoora
How fast can a locksmith get to Bundoora?
Honestly, it depends on where the nearest van is when you ring, and anyone who gives you one number for the whole of Melbourne is guessing. At roughly 15 km, Bundoora is comfortably inside the area we actually work rather than the area we advertise. The vans that cover Mill Park and Thomastown cover this too. Ask on the phone and you will get a real window rather than a marketing one.
Can you rekey every lock on a Bundoora house to one key?
Usually, yes. Front door, back door, laundry, garage side door and often the gate can be brought onto a single key by rekeying the cylinders rather than buying new locks. The limit is mechanical — different brands and lock types cannot always share a key — so it is worth us seeing the doors before we promise it across the whole property.
Which doors get forgotten most on a Bundoora property?
The garage side door and the sliding door onto the yard, almost every time. Both are entry points, both are often fitted with whatever the builder supplied, and neither gets thought about because the front door has a deadlock. They are also the cheapest things on a house to improve.
We have just bought in Bundoora. Should we change the locks?
You should change who can open them, which is not the same thing. Rekeying cancels every key ever cut for those locks while keeping the hardware you paid for in the price of the house. Replacement only makes sense where the locks are worn, mismatched or not to the standard you want — and we will tell you which of those you are looking at.
Do you have a shop in Bundoora?
No. Fix Mate is fully mobile — there is no counter anywhere, and the machines and stock travel in the van. It means we come to your door in Bundoora rather than you driving to us, and it is why there is no closing time to work around. The same vans cover Mill Park, Thomastown and Reservoir.