Lock Repair in Reservoir, VIC

Lock Repair — what it involves

A lock that has become hard to turn is telling you something, and it is usually not that the lock is finished. Doors move with the seasons, strikes drift, springs tire and cylinders fill with grit. Most of it is repairable, and repair is both faster and cheaper than replacement.

The Reservoir picture

Reservoir carries a postcode of 3073 and about 51,096 residents, inside the Darebin council area. The addresses we see most run off High Street, Spring Street and Cheddar Road. If you are giving directions, Reservoir is the reference point most people reach for. The nearest suburbs we also cover are Thomastown, Preston and Fawkner.

The housing in Reservoir leans to terraces, semis and townhouses — narrow frontages, original timber doors on the older stock, and newer builds sharing a driveway or a common gate. Period doors are the ones worth being careful with: they are usually worth keeping, and the right answer is normally a properly fitted lock in a repaired door rather than a modern slab and a new hole. The strips along High Street and Spring Street carry street-front retail hardware, which fails from use rather than from age.

Between the rented houses and the owner-occupied ones, Reservoir generates two different job lists. The rented side is turnover work: rekeys at handover, lost keys mid-lease, and lockouts after hours. The owned side is slower and more considered. We do both here in roughly equal measure.

Most Reservoir jobs are practical ones — a solid deadlock fitted correctly, a house keyed alike so there is one key instead of five, and hardware chosen because it will still be working in ten years. We work all through Reservoir 3073, from Reservoir across to Reservoir Private Hospital and across the rest of the Darebin council area.

What happens when you call

1. You tell us where and what. The suburb, the door and what has happened. For a house, mention whether it is the front, the back or a garage side door.
2. We tell you where the nearest van is. A real window, not a slogan. If it does not suit you, you have lost a minute rather than an evening.
3. We confirm you are entitled to be there. Every time, without exception. It is the same check that stops somebody doing this to your home.
4. You get the cost before work starts. Not after the door is open, and never as a surprise on the invoice.

What this covers

• Locks that stick, grind or need lifting to turn
• Misaligned strikes and dropped doors
• Worn cylinders and tired springs
• Door closers and latches
• Damage after a break-in or attempted entry
• Seized and corroded external hardware
• Handles and levers that have gone loose