BLACKBURN · OPEN 24 HOURS
Break-in repairs in Blackburn
Forced back door, jemmied window latch, strike plate torn out of soft pine. We make it lock properly again tonight and tell you what needs a carpenter tomorrow.
What this looks like on the day
Blackburn keeps a lot of its older housing stock and leafy blocks, with period homes around the lake and solid brick from the interwar years. Original mortice locks and timber doors that have moved with age are common here, and they are usually worth servicing rather than replacing.
- Door secured and locking the same night
- Timber and strike plates reinforced
- Insurance photos and an itemised invoice
What happens when you call
A real time, not a hopeful one
You get an arrival window on the phone based on where the van actually is. If we are held up you hear that instead of a number that sounds good.
The figure before anything starts
The price is quoted on the call and repeated at the door. It does not move once the job is underway, and there is no separate callout line.
Picks before drills
We open the lock and keep it wherever the hardware allows. If a cylinder genuinely cannot open cleanly you hear it, and what the replacement costs, before we begin.
Same person, start to finish
Whoever answers the phone is who turns up. No call centre, no subcontractor you have never spoken to standing at your front door at 1am.
Other things we do in Blackburn
House lockouts
Brick-veneer front doors around Blackburn almost all run a Lockwood deadlatch, and the older ones drop out of alignment before they fail outright. We pick it, open it, and tell you whether the latch is worth keeping.
Locked out of the house →
Car lockouts
Keys shut in the boot at the station car park, or a spare that stopped working years ago. Automotive picks and lishi tools, no slim jims down the window channel.
Locked out of the car →
Lost keys
One key for a house that has had three sets floating around since the 1970s. We cut a clean set from the lock itself, so what you hold actually matches the cylinder.
Lost keys and replacement keys →
Rekeying
New to the house, or a set that never came back from a tradesman. Rekeying the existing Lockwood cylinders is usually half the cost of new hardware and takes about the same time.
Rekeying and lock changes →
Break-in repairs
Forced back door, jemmied window latch, strike plate torn out of soft pine. We make it lock properly again tonight and tell you what needs a carpenter tomorrow.
Break-in repairs →
Security upgrades
Most Blackburn homes still have the original single-cylinder deadlatch and nothing on the sliding door. A deadbolt on the front and a proper patio bolt on the back closes the obvious gaps.
Deadlocks and security upgrades →Where we are
1 Sergeant St
Blackburn VIC 3130
Open 24 hours, 7 days
We cover Blackburn North, Blackburn South, Box Hill, Nunawading and Forest Hill as well.