The Importance Of Having A Locksmith Before You Need One

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You buy a new house; an Estate Agent has just handed you over a bundle of keys and he has no idea what they are for. A list in your head of things to worry about starts to get bigger and bigger. You’re thinking about the mortgage payments, your new neighbors, decorating, and don’t forget that all important house warming party. And very often, with all that worry, people forget a very important matter. The security of their new home. To start with, the Estate Agent just hands a bunch of keys to your solicitor or to you and all s/he is certain off is that there is a key on the bunch that opens the front door and possibly another one to open the back door. No one knows what all the other keys are for. Whether you are a first-time buyer or not, it’s very sensible to the replace all the locks so as you get new keys

Security should be your priority when you move into a new house. The previous owners are likely to have made spare copies of their keys, and possibly gave a spare key to a trusted neighbor, or friend and very likely gave a spare key to a family member. I would hate strangers having access to my house and I ...
... would want to be confident that I am safe in my new house.

Replacing locks is not always as expensive as you think. Some areas may be more expensive than others, for example a locksmith Newtownabbey may be cheaper than a locksmith Belfast. In most cases you only need to change the cylinder and not the complete lock. Check with your local locksmith Newtownabbey to find out what options are available. Depending on the type of locks it may be cheaper to rekey your locks and pins. Although this is sometimes a cheaper option I advise to replace the cylinder and/or the lock. The cost for changing the cylinders on the front and back door range from £110 to £150. That’s not too high a price to pay for securing your home.

You don’t always need a locksmith to change your locks, you can change the locks yourself. But you must get the right size locks as a badly fitted lock is easier to open. My advice is to let a locksmith change the locks to the outside doors and you can change any locks on any internal door.