Tuesday, October 18, 2011

How a Professional Locksmith Service Help Your Security Needs

By Lewis Walker


Purchasing a new home requires more than placing the "sold" sign in the front yard. New homeowners must secure funding, purchase insurance, clean; move the furniture in, call utility companies, change addresses and contact new school systems for children. Now that all of that is done, we can move in, right? One of the most important parts of moving into a new home is changing the locks. Consider how many owners lived in the home or condo before your family? Even if the home had one sweet elderly couple as the previous owners, people share, hide and lose keys throughout owning a home. Are the current locks older with years of wear? A simple way to proactively ensure your family's home is safe is by changing the locks.

A reputable locksmith service can offer a number of services and products to help keep intruders at bay. A licensed locksmith will come to your home and examine all doors and windows; providing suggestions of how to better the security of your home. Locksmiths may suggest improved deadbolt locks, electronic locks, and access control solutions, key-less solutions, digital solutions or bio-metric solutions.

Homeowners that choose to keep the current locks or simply replace the locks with new dead bolt locks, a few lower cost solutions are available. Locksmiths can rekey current locks. Rekeying involves changing the tumblers within the lock's cylinders with varied new tumblers.

Changing to an updated deadbolt lock decreases the chance of easy access into your home. Rekeying a lock not only provides better security, but allows the owner the option to synchronize all home locks using the same key to avoid a massive collection of different keys. Homeowners can choose from a single cylinder dead bolt, a double cylinder dead bolt or a key-less dead bolt lock.

Ask the locksmith about the benefits and flaws of any locks that are suggested. For instance, although some dead bolt lock manufacturers boast secure locks, consider the materials the locks are made out of, if parts are new on the market with little research or if burglars can drill, break apart or pick them. Be sure to discuss all security options with your locksmith. Also discuss additional products that are available to enhance locks such alarms or special pieces to add to the door itself.




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