Gates and garage doors: the forgotten ones when it comes to maintenance
On the town's estates, the gate is operated several times a day, often from the car, and rarely makes it onto the list of things to maintain. A hinged leaf that has developed play on its hinges ends up scraping the ground; a sliding gate whose rail fills with gravel and pine needles puts strain on its low-level lock. The symptom is the same in both cases: you have to lift, pull or push to get it to lock.
The up-and-over garage door deserves the same attention, all the more so as it frequently opens onto a connecting door into the house. When the up-and-over no longer locks, that internal door effectively becomes the real front door of the home, and it is usually fitted with nothing more than an ordinary internal door lock. A repair on the garage is therefore the logical moment to look at what lies behind it, rather than dealing with the two a few months apart.
Apartment blocks in the centre and along the tram lines: doors that work hard
Along tram line B and in the town centre, apartment blocks concentrate heavily used doors: entrance hall, bin store, car park access, stairwell. A badly adjusted door closer slams, gradually knocks the strike plate out of line and eventually stops the bolt from engaging properly. On these doors the fault is nearly always a matter of adjustment and fixings before it is a lock problem; treating it as such avoids replacing a mechanism that is still in good order.
In heavily occupied blocks such as those in Saige, intensive use produces symptoms of its own: a handle that drops, a key you have to hunt for, a top point on a multipoint lock that no longer catches. These signs are all the easier to deal with when they are caught early, and they deteriorate quickly if left to run. The diagnosis is made on site, a detailed quote is drawn up before any work and an invoice is always issued, which is useful when the repair concerns a rented home and has to be justified to the landlord.
How does this service work?
Techniques, typical situations, standards and things to watch out for: it is all on our locksmith repairs page. This page focuses on what the service involves in Pessac.