Doors in Lurgan are not all the same age, and that is the first thing worth knowing before booking burglary repair and security upgrade work here. The town runs from the wide Georgian High Street, Brownlow House and the linen mill workers terraces around North Street and the Shankill area of the town through to the later estates at Taghnevan, Kilwilkie and Mourneview, and Craigavon era development on the town edge, and mill terraces are the defining stock here, which means narrow original timber doors opening straight onto the pavement, a door type where a rim night latch plus a BS3621 mortice is still the standard combination an insurer expects. Andy Locksmiths Ltd covers the whole of it.
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Every burglary repair and security upgrade call in Lurgan starts the same way, with a look at what is actually fitted before anything is removed. This is what the work covers.
Replacing every compromised lock so the property is secure again before anything else is decided.
Making a forced door and frame closeable and lockable again, or boarding securely where it cannot be.
Upgrading to anti-snap cylinders, security handles and reinforced keeps at the point of repair.
A written record of what was fitted and to what standard, which is what an insurer normally asks for.
An honest look at the rest of the property, including the weak points that were not used this time.
Lurgan does not have one kind of front door, and that is what actually decides a burglary repair and security upgrade job here. The older part of the town is the wide Georgian High Street, Brownlow House and the linen mill workers terraces around North Street and the Shankill area of the town, while the bulk of the housing is the later estates at Taghnevan, Kilwilkie and Mourneview, and Craigavon era development on the town edge. In practice, mill terraces are the defining stock here, which means narrow original timber doors opening straight onto the pavement, a door type where a rim night latch plus a BS3621 mortice is still the standard combination an insurer expects. That split is why we ask what the door is made of before quoting anything, because a five lever mortice on a timber door and a euro cylinder on a composite doorset are different parts, different prices and different work.
Getting to you is the other half of it. Lurgan is reached by a run down the M1 toward junction 10. This is one of the longer runs on our coverage list, and pretending otherwise would not help you. On a callout out here, ask for a realistic arrival time before you commit, and tell us if the property is genuinely insecure so we can prioritise it properly. Lurgan is a genuine motorway run from Belfast, so the honest answer on timing depends heavily on the M1 at the hour you call. None of that changes what the work costs, since the price follows the lock and the door rather than the mileage, but it does change what we load into the van and how the visit is planned.
Home insurers rarely ask what your lock cost. They ask what standard it meets. Which standard applies depends on the door rather than the address, and in Lurgan that varies street by street: mill terraces are the defining stock here, which means narrow original timber doors opening straight onto the pavement, a door type where a rim night latch plus a BS3621 mortice is still the standard combination an insurer expects. The table below is what a policy is normally describing when it names a requirement. It is general guidance rather than a reading of your specific policy, so check your own wording, and if you are not sure what is fitted we will tell you what is on the door before anything is changed.
the British Standard for a thief-resistant lock. On a timber door this is normally a five lever mortice deadlock, or a night latch certified to the same standard. A compliant lock carries the kitemark and the BS3621 number stamped on the forend, visible on the edge of the open door.
the cylinder standard. Insurers usually accept a 3-star cylinder on its own, or a 1-star cylinder paired with a 2-star security handle. This is what an insurer means when the wording asks for anti-snap protection.
a test of the complete doorset rather than the lock alone. If a door was fitted new to a modern building regulation standard it may already comply, which is worth knowing before paying to upgrade a lock that is already adequate.
the window security standard. Policies that specify key operated window locks on accessible windows are usually describing this, and it is the requirement most often missed on an otherwise well secured property.
If the property is in a conservation area or is listed, and the work goes beyond changing a lock into changing a door, that is worth checking with Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council before ordering rather than after. A like for like lock change on an existing door is not normally the part that causes a problem.
Yes. Craigavon, Portadown, Moira, Banbridge are all covered alongside Lurgan itself, and you can see the full list on our areas we cover page. Lurgan falls under Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, though for a lock job the council matters far less than the door does.
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.
Yes. An attempted entry that failed still often leaves a damaged cylinder or a bent keep, and a property that has been tried once is worth reviewing properly.
The wide Georgian High Street, Brownlow House and the linen mill workers terraces around North Street and the Shankill area of the town makes up the older half of the town, and the later estates at Taghnevan, Kilwilkie and Mourneview, and Craigavon era development on the town edge makes up the rest. Because of that, mill terraces are the defining stock here, which means narrow original timber doors opening straight onto the pavement, a door type where a rim night latch plus a BS3621 mortice is still the standard combination an insurer expects. Telling us which of those sounds like your door saves a return trip for parts.
Lurgan is reached by a run down the M1 toward junction 10, which puts it in the outer edge of our coverage. This is one of the longer runs on our coverage list, and pretending otherwise would not help you. On a callout out here, ask for a realistic arrival time before you commit, and tell us if the property is genuinely insecure so we can prioritise it properly.
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 Lurgan, because mill terraces are the defining stock here, which means narrow original timber doors opening straight onto the pavement, a door type where a rim night latch plus a BS3621 mortice is still the standard combination an insurer expects. We can tell you what is currently fitted before anything is changed.
It should not be. The useful version of that conversation names the weak points honestly, including the ones that are cheap or free to fix, such as a spare key left where it is always looked for.
On the older Lurgan stock, where you are dealing with the wide Georgian High Street, Brownlow House and the linen mill workers terraces around North Street and the Shankill area of the town, 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.
Yes. We cover the whole of Lurgan for burglary repair and security upgrade work, including the High Street, Brownlow House, Lurgan Park, North Street, Taghnevan. Lurgan is a genuine motorway run from Belfast, so the honest answer on timing depends heavily on the M1 at the hour you call.
Everything below is available in Lurgan on the same terms, at any hour.
Lurgan sits alongside Craigavon, Portadown, Moira, Banbridge, all covered on the same terms. The full coverage list is on our areas page.