Securing after a break-in in Villenave-d'Ornon

In the residential parts of the commune, a break-in rarely happens on the street side. It happens behind the hedge, at a patio door or a service door that no neighbour can see. Closing the property up again therefore means dealing with the whole envelope of the house, not just the front door.

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What happens behind the hedge, out of sight of the street

The outlying residential areas of the commune are thinly built up, sometimes poorly lit, and the plots are enclosed by hedges that protect privacy just as much as they conceal anyone forcing an opening. Entry is usually made at the rear: the living-room patio door, the service door, a utility or laundry room window. One detail comes up again and again: the shed at the bottom of the garden, left open or closed with a tired padlock, puts exactly the right tools within reach for levering a window or door.

The order in which you do things matters as much as the repair. Put nothing back in order before the police have been: the marks on the frame and the lock are part of what they record. Photograph from several angles, report the offence, and notify your insurer as your policy provides. In the meantime, temporary securing closes the property up again without erasing what has to be recorded: boarding up broken glazing, blocking a casement lifted off its hinges, a temporary lock on the door that was attacked.

A house is secured access point by access point, not door by door

If a bunch of keys went missing during the break-in, the question goes well beyond the forced door. On a Villenave plot, the same ring frequently carries the key to the front door, the pedestrian gate, the garage, the shed and sometimes a cellar. All these openings need dealing with. Think as well about the gate remote left in a car, which can be reprogrammed by the company that installed the motor, and about the key safe fixed near the door, whose code can be changed.

Then comes reinforcement, which is best kept measured. Start by correcting the point actually used to get in: a rear window or door before the main entrance, a split frame before a new mechanism, outdoor lighting and cutting back the planting before buying any hardware. We record item by item what was removed and what was fitted, the quote is drawn up before the work and the invoice issued afterwards: that is what your insurer will ask you for.

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 Villenave-d'Ornon.

FAQ — securing your home after a break-in in Villenave-d'Ornon

They came in through the garden patio door: does the front door still need attention?

If the front door was not attacked and no key has gone missing, there is no reason to replace its mechanism. The priority goes to the forced window or door and its frame. If, on the other hand, keys were taken or papers showing your address have disappeared, then the front-door cylinder is involved too, just like the garage and pedestrian gate ones.

On a housing estate, is there anyone besides the insurer to tell?

It is worth doing. Where the estate has a residents' association, telling them makes it possible to connect the incident with others in the same streets and, where appropriate, to have shared lighting seen to. In a flat, tell the building managing agent (syndic) if the hall, a communal room or a car park was forced, and your landlord if you rent — in both cases in writing.

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Door reinforcement

Reinforcing the entrance to a house raises different questions from reinforcing a flat entrance door. On Villenave plots, the front door is only one of the points that lock with a key, and the project sometimes runs up against what the house already has: side glazing, PVC joinery, a frame bedded into a wall built in the seventies.

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Lock and cylinder replacement

Here, changing a lock rarely stops at one door. Between the front door, the service door, the garage and the pedestrian gate, a Villenave house easily has four or five points that lock with a key, fitted at different times and by successive owners.

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Door opening

Being locked out looks quite different depending on whether you live in an estate house in Le Bocage or in a recent flat near the tram line. In a commune this spread out, the question is not only how to open a door: it is often how to get onto the plot in the first place. Our team sets out from Bordeaux and works throughout the Gironde.

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