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Securing a property after a break-in in Gradignan

In a commune of houses screened by hedges, break-ins almost always happen round the back, out of sight of the street. Making the property secure again therefore rarely concerns the front door alone, and that is what has to be explained to the insurer.

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A reassuring street frontage, an exposed garden side

The clipped hedges, solid gates and mature trees that make Gradignan so pleasant have a well-known side effect: once past the gate or the fence, nothing can be seen from the public road. Intruders then use the sliding patio door onto the terrace, the French windows of the living room, the side door off the kitchen or the connecting door from the garage. These openings are frequently the oldest in the house, and nobody had given them a thought.

Making the property secure again therefore follows the actual damage. A broken glazed opening is boarded up to close the house. A side door that has been wrenched out needs the door frame made good before anything is refitted. A distorted patio door track is dealt with separately. Keep every part that is removed — a drilled cylinder, a torn-off strike plate, splinters from the door frame: they show the nature of the attack, and an insurer may ask to see them during the loss assessment.

The missing key ring, and everything it still opens

A Gradignan house is rarely closed up with a single key. The key ring that disappears during a break-in often opens the pedestrian gate, the garage, the garden shed and sometimes the letterbox, and it sits alongside the remote for the powered gate. And the address is now known. Replacement therefore does not stop at the front door cylinder: every access point on the plot has to be reviewed, including the ones you never use.

The order in which you do things matters as much as the repair itself. Photograph the scene from several angles before touching anything, leave the signs of forced entry in place for the police examination, report the crime, then notify the claim within the time limit set by your policy. Temporary securing work makes it possible to keep to that order without leaving the property open. The invoice issued afterwards itemises each element, which makes handling the claim considerably easier.

How does this service work?

Techniques, typical situations, standards and things to watch out for: it is all on our securing your home after a break-in page. This page focuses on what the service involves in Gradignan.

FAQ — securing your home after a break-in in Gradignan

They came in through the patio door on the garden side. Should I still change the front door lock?

Not necessarily, if it was not attacked and no key has gone missing. If the key ring was taken, then yes: the burglars now have both the address and the keys. The priority remains dealing with the entry point actually used, making good the door frame or the track concerned, rather than reinforcing a door that never gave way.

My key ring and the gate remote have both gone. Where do I start?

First list what the key ring actually opened: front door, garage, pedestrian gate, shed, cellar. All those cylinders should be treated as compromised. For a powered gate, deleting the stolen remote from the motor's memory is done through the company that installed the drive. Mention the loss of the key ring when you report the crime: insurers ask for it as a matter of course.

Our other services in Gradignan

Lock and cylinder replacement

Two moments account for most lock changes in the commune. The first is the end of a student tenancy. The second is the day you realise that the household key ring holds six keys, two of which no longer open anything you can identify.

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Door opening

In Gradignan you rarely end up stranded on a pavement: more often it happens in your own garden, gate closed behind you, after stepping out to fetch the post or put the bins out. That setting changes the way a call-out has to be prepared.

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Locksmith repairs

Here, the locks that give out are not always the front door's. Gates, side gates at the bottom of the garden, garage doors and sheds spend the whole year outdoors, under the trees, and they are the first to start sticking.

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