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Category Archives: Locks and Cylinders
How to keep burglars away from the house after the re-openings: 6 checks and 3 useful tips!
Remembering that every home is different, and for that reason, depending on the year of construction, type and location, it will have certain advantages and disadvantages in terms of security, here is a ready-to-use check-up for all the access points to your home and to better protect its defence perimeters.
Castles and fortresses or modern-day houses? Differences and similarities in terms of security
Medieval castles and fortresses, known for their robustness, were not only built of massive materials but also included numerous defensive perimeters for protection against enemy threats.
Garage doors: how to strengthen them?
Tools, electric and traditional bicycles, motorbikes and cars are just some of the valuable goods that are normally stored in garages.
Keyed Alike Systems for everyone, especially for Shops and Offices
A shop may have a rather complex management of the keys. Typically, there are various locks: shutters, entrance door, doors to offices and storerooms, secondary entrances or gates, security grilles and gates. If each lock is managed independently the bunch of keys soon becomes very bulky, and inconvenient to carry and use. Continue reading
Roller shutters and up-and-over doors: how to make them more pull-resistant
The weak points of roller shutters and up-and-over doors
- The material of the shutter or door
- locks fitted originally
As already suggested in previous blogs, the first things to do to make any door safer are to check that the manufacturing material is resistant and to replace the lock supplied as standard with a security type one.
However, shutters and up-and-over doors are exposed to different types of attacks. In order to prevent pull attempts, for example, among the various options available on the market we find the fastening unit.
HOUSEHOLD SECURITY AT THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS
One of the restrictions imposed to contain the spread of Covid19 is to stay at home. Many people have signed up to the social media campaign #IMSTAYINGHOME, but what is really behind those apparent smiles? Continue reading
How do you recognise a high-security European profile cylinder?
At first glance, Security european profile cylinders are all very similar. The outer shape of the body is in fact practically the same for them all.
The details which distinguish a good quality cylinder, that is able to provide security and reliability over time, from a mediocre one are hidden inside.
What is the difference between lock and cylinder?
The term “lock” is commonly used to mean the entire mechanism which, by using a key, is able to open and close a door.
In reality this is only partly correct. There are, in fact, locks which actually consist of a single mechanism, like the majority of the double bit locks.
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EUROPEAN CYLINDER: everything you need to know
In order to prevent undesired accesses, the European profile cylinder, combined with the lock, is currently the most complete and state of the art system. However, due to precisely this reason, there is a very wide range of demands on this particular cylinder.