Burglary Repairs and Security Upgrades inBelfast

Yes. We cover the whole of Belfast for burglary repair and security upgrade work, including the city centre, the Cathedral Quarter, Stranmillis and the Holylands, the Titanic Quarter, east, south, north and west Belfast. City centre and university area streets are tight for parking, so on a Belfast callout we often park a street away and walk in with the tool case rather than waiting for a space outside the door.

Break-in repairs are treated as emergency work rather than scheduled work. Where a part has to be sourced, the property is made secure first and finished properly afterwards.

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 Belfast, because original timber front doors with rim night latches and mortice deadlocks are still common on the older terraces, while the apartment stock is almost entirely composite and uPVC doorsets on multipoint mechanisms. We can tell you what is currently fitted before anything is changed.

On the older Belfast stock, where you are dealing with Victorian and Edwardian red brick terraces through the Holylands, Ormeau, Woodstock and Stranmillis, and larger period villas along the Malone Road and the Antrim Road, the door is usually timber with a mortice deadlock or a rim night latch, and non destructive entry means picking the mortice or slipping the latch. Those are slow rather than difficult. Where a lock has to be sacrificed, it is replaced before we leave.

Belfast is reached by our base city, so most of Belfast is the shortest run we make, which puts it in our base city. Belfast is where we are based, so this is the shortest run we make and the 30 minute response the site quotes is a Belfast claim rather than a blanket one. Even so, ask for a time when you call rather than assuming, because traffic across the city varies enormously by hour.

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.

Where a window or a panel cannot be made secure any other way, boarding it is the interim step so the property can be left. Glazing replacement is a separate trade that follows afterwards.

It is a sensible habit rather than a reflection on anyone. Once you no longer know how many copies of a key exist, the key has stopped being a security measure.

Yes. Newtownabbey, Lisburn, Holywood, Comber are all covered alongside Belfast itself, and you can see the full list on our areas we cover page. Belfast falls under Belfast City Council, though for a lock job the council matters far less than the door does.

Victorian and Edwardian red brick terraces through the Holylands, Ormeau, Woodstock and Stranmillis, and larger period villas along the Malone Road and the Antrim Road makes up the older half of the town, and post-war estates across the north and west of the city and newer apartment blocks through the Titanic Quarter and along the Laganside makes up the rest. Because of that, original timber front doors with rim night latches and mortice deadlocks are still common on the older terraces, while the apartment stock is almost entirely composite and uPVC doorsets on multipoint mechanisms. Telling us which of those sounds like your door saves a return trip for parts.