Smart locks in Bordeaux

In a city where a great deal is let, where people entertain often and where arrivals are frequently late, the real question is not doing away with the key: it is knowing who you let in, when, and for how long. A smart lock answers precisely that, provided it suits the Bordeaux door you want to put it on.

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Furnished lets, house shares and handing over keys remotely

In the city centre, between Saint-Pierre, Sainte-Croix and the streets climbing towards La Victoire, a significant share of the housing stock is let furnished, by the year or by the night. The friction point is always the same: handing over the keys. A temporary code, opened on the day of arrival and closed on departure, does away with the key box on the wall, the missed appointments and the copies that go astray. For a student house share whose rooms turn over from one year to the next, the logic is exactly the same.

The second common use is for owners who do not live locally. Many Bordeaux homes belong to landlords based elsewhere in the Gironde or outside the department, who nonetheless have to let in a tradesperson, a surveyor or a cleaning company. The time-stamped log shows who came in and at what time, without depending on a neighbour holding a spare key. The same benefit applies to small business premises and the shared workshops of the right bank, where several people come and go during the day.

What electronics will not solve in your building

One point often overlooked: a smart lock equips your door, not the building. At the Bassins à flot, in Ginko or in the recent developments of Bordeaux Maritime, the entrance is filtered by a fob or a system managed by the syndic. Your visitor will get through the door of the home with a code, but they still have to get into the building, cross the lobby and sometimes a second set of doors before the lift. Any change to these communal entrances goes through the co-owned building, never through equipment on a private door.

As for period doors, not everything can be made smart. A rim lock in an outer neighbourhood, a key bit that is nothing like a euro cylinder, or a very thick door leaf may rule out fitting a motor or an electronic cylinder. The choice is then between adapting the existing mechanism and giving up on the idea. Another typically Bordeaux detail: on an échoppe, the door stands a metre from the pavement, and a keypad on the front is used in full view of passers-by. A fob or smartphone opening stays more discreet.

How does this service work?

Techniques, typical situations, standards and things to watch out for: it is all on our smart lock page. This page focuses on what the service involves in Bordeaux.

FAQ — smart lock in Bordeaux

I let a furnished flat near place Saint-Michel: is a smart lock enough?

It handles access to your home, not to the building. If the entrance has a keypad, an entryphone or a communal fob system, your tenants will still have to go through it, and that belongs to the co-owned building. Check the rules too, as some co-owned buildings restrict short-term letting. The simplest combination is to keep the communal system and make only the landing door self-sufficient.

My échoppe door has an old rim lock: can it be automated?

It depends what sits behind the case. Motors fixed to the inside face are designed to drive a euro cylinder; faced with a lever lock or an original key bit, they have nothing to turn. Two routes remain open: replacing the mechanism with a compatible model, which means measuring up on old timber, or keeping the lock and adding a second motorised locking point.

Our other services in Bordeaux

Door opening

Finding yourself on the doorstep with the keys inside does not feel quite the same whether you live in an échoppe in Nansouty or on the third floor of a walk-up near place Gambetta. We know the city well: we know these doors, their unusual dimensions and the courtyards you have to cross first.

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Lock and cylinder replacement

In Bordeaux, a door often changes occupant long before it changes lock. Student tenancies renewed every summer, house shares reshuffled, short-term furnished lets in the city centre: after a few handovers, nobody knows how many copies of the key are still in circulation.

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Locksmith repairs

Between the damp air coming off the ocean and the mild, rainy winters of the Garonne valley, doors in Bordeaux move. Most of the faults we find come not from the mechanism itself but from its surroundings: a door leaf that swells, a strike plate two millimetres out of line, a rod linkage forced once too often.

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