Fawkner 3060 · Hume council · North
Locksmith Fawkner, VIC
Fix Mate is on the road in Fawkner every day and every night — homes, businesses and vehicles, with no shopfront and no closing time.
At roughly 12 km, Fawkner is comfortably inside the area we actually work rather than the area we advertise. The vans that cover Reservoir and Pascoe Vale cover this too.
What locksmithing in Fawkner actually looks like
Fawkner carries a postcode of 3060 and about 14,274 residents, inside the Hume council area. The addresses we see most run off Mahoneys Road. If you are giving directions, Fawkner is the reference point most people reach for. The nearest suburbs we also cover are Reservoir, Pascoe Vale and Glenroy.
Fawkner is overwhelmingly separate houses, which means the locksmithing lives well beyond the front door. The back door, the laundry door, the garage side door, the gate, the shed and the sliding door onto the yard are all entry points, and the sliding door and the garage side door are the two overlooked most consistently. On a house this is also where keying alike pays off — one key for a property with five or six locks on it. The strips along Mahoneys Road carry shopfront and warehouse hardware.
The owner-renter split in Fawkner is close to even, which makes it one of the more varied suburbs to work. In a single day the calls can run from a planned restricted-key upgrade to a tenant locked out at 11pm, and there is no useful way to predict which is coming.
In Fawkner we say "this can be repaired" more often than we say "this needs replacing", and we mean it. A cylinder that has another ten years in it is worth servicing; a lock that has already failed once is not worth a repair visit. The difference is worth explaining rather than deciding for you. We work all through Fawkner 3060, from Fawkner across to Gowrie and across the rest of the Hume council area.
What we do in Fawkner
Each of these has its own page for Fawkner — what the job involves here specifically, not a general description of locksmithing.
Emergency Lockout in Fawkner
Before we set off to a Fawkner lockout we will ask about the back door, the laundry and the garage — on a detached house one of them is unlocked more…
Emergency Lockout in FawknerResidential Locksmith in Fawkner
The most useful thing we do on a Fawkner house is usually not fitting a new lock — it is making the six existing ones take the same key. That is a rekey…
Residential Locksmith in FawknerCar Key Replacement in Fawkner
In Fawkner 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 Fawkner
Suburbs next to Fawkner
The same vans cover these, which is why we can usually be at a Fawkner door quickly.
Locked out in Fawkner?
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 — Fawkner
How fast can a locksmith get to Fawkner?
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 12 km, Fawkner is comfortably inside the area we actually work rather than the area we advertise. The vans that cover Reservoir and Pascoe Vale 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 Fawkner 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 Fawkner 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 Fawkner. 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 Fawkner?
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 Fawkner rather than you driving to us, and it is why there is no closing time to work around. The same vans cover Reservoir, Pascoe Vale and Glenroy.