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Locksmith in Waterford

  • 17-01-2010 10:01am
    #1
    Black Dog
    Registered Users Posts: 245 ✭✭


    The lock on my back door is locked and I can't open it this morning. Any advice would be welcome.

    It is a five lever Union deadlock. I can't see anything jammed in the keyhole. I've sprayed in WD40 with no benefit. There is no damage to the key and it is a new lock, put in just in early December.

    Any recommendations for a locksmith in Waterford?

    Anyone with this experience? Cost?


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  • #2
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,682 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Just a thought, there will be at least one more key, do you have them? Have you tried one of the other keys?


  • #3
    Black Dog
    Registered Users Posts: 245 ✭✭Black Dog


    looksee wrote: »
    Just a thought, there will be at least one more key, do you have them? Have you tried one of the other keys?

    Yes, tried everything - well, short of trying to open the door while standing on my head.


  • #4
    Black Dog
    Registered Users Posts: 245 ✭✭Black Dog


    Locksmith arrived - tried various methods of opening the lock but the Union five lever has an anti-picking device and he didn't succeed with this approach. He then drilled a hole through the timber of the door and into the lock itself - very careful measurement so as to enter the lock at a very precise point, had a tolerance of less than one millimetre to each side of the drill bit. He then opened the lock with ease.

    A small spring within the lock had broken - don't know how, makes no sense in such a new lock - and this had come between the key and the levers.

    New lock now installed, all well. €75


  • #5
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Jaysus fair play to your man.


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