Lock repair and adjustment

Locks give warning before they fail. The key needs jiggling. The handle has to be lifted twice. The door needs a shove before it will lock. Those are all repairable symptoms — and all of them are cheaper to deal with now than at 11pm on a Sunday.

Common repairs

• Misaligned doors where the lock no longer meets the keep
• Worn multipoint gearboxes that will not throw the hooks
• Stiff or seized cylinders
• Loose or dropped handles
• Failed door closers on communal doors

Repair or replace

Sometimes a repair is genuinely the better option; sometimes it is money spent twice. We will tell you honestly which one you are looking at, including when the sensible answer is to replace.