Burglary Repairs and Security Upgrades inAntrim

Antrim is reached by a straight run up the M2, which puts it in the middle ring of our coverage. This is a real journey rather than a city callout, though it is a direct one on roads we travel regularly. Ask us for an actual arrival time when you call. We would rather tell you forty minutes and be right than tell you thirty and be wrong.

Not always, and any locksmith promising otherwise is overselling. Antrim runs from the older town centre streets close to Antrim Castle Gardens and the High Street to the substantial 1970s and 1980s estates at Steeple, Greystone and Rathenraw, and newer housing toward the Lough Neagh shore, so we could be picking a century old mortice or bypassing a modern cylinder on the same night. We will tell you at the door which one we expect, and if the lock has to go, it is replaced before we leave.

Yes. Randalstown, Ballyclare, Newtownabbey, Ballymena are all covered alongside Antrim itself, and you can see the full list on our areas we cover page. Antrim falls under Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, though for a lock job the council matters far less than the door does.

If keys were taken, or if a lock was forced and then closed again, yes. A lock that has been attacked has usually been weakened even where it still turns.

Yes, Antrim is covered end to end for burglary repair and security upgrade, from Antrim Castle Gardens through to the Lough Neagh shore. Antrim sits right on the motorway network, so the run there is one of the most predictable we make outside Belfast itself.

A split frame is often the real problem rather than the lock, because a good lock in a broken frame gives very little resistance. Repairing or reinforcing the frame and the keeps is part of the job rather than an extra.

It depends on the door rather than the town. On a timber door the standard usually named is BS3621, stamped on the edge of the lock. On a uPVC or composite door it is normally TS007, either a 3 star cylinder on its own or a 1 star cylinder with a 2 star handle. Both come up regularly in Antrim, because the estate stock dominates numerically, which means most Antrim callouts are uPVC and composite doors rather than timber, and the common fault is a mechanism that has been fighting a dropped door for a long time. We can tell you what is currently fitted before anything is changed.

Usually. Where a cylinder was snapped, an anti-snap TS007 3-star cylinder is the direct answer. Where a door was kicked, reinforced keeps, longer screws into the frame and a London bar or a Birmingham bar do more than a better lock would.

Yes, if they have asked you to. Report it first and follow whatever they tell you about the scene. Once they are finished, securing the property is the priority.

The older town centre streets close to Antrim Castle Gardens and the High Street makes up the older half of the town, and the substantial 1970s and 1980s estates at Steeple, Greystone and Rathenraw, and newer housing toward the Lough Neagh shore makes up the rest. Because of that, the estate stock dominates numerically, which means most Antrim callouts are uPVC and composite doors rather than timber, and the common fault is a mechanism that has been fighting a dropped door for a long time. Telling us which of those sounds like your door saves a return trip for parts.