Tools, electric and traditional bicycles, motorbikes and cars are just some of the valuable goods that are normally stored in garages.
Garage doors: how to strengthen them?
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Category Archives: Locks and Cylinders
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.
SOME INDICATIONS OF POTENTIAL THEFTS AND “ANTI-THIEF” MEASURES
The summer season is often the one with the most at risk of theft, probably because of so many people going away on holiday and the time we tend to spend out of the house to fully enjoy the summer, whilst it lasts. It is also a time of year when the worries of the winter just ended are sometimes left behind and, precisely for this reason, it is easier to believe the common myth “Well, if they want to steal, they’ll come anyway!” (See our serial blog), and so we simply close the door behind us and leave the house. Continue reading
Theft & Robbery: a technique by thieves to open gates.
In this article we will discover the tools and dynamics used by thieves to force a security gate. Continue reading
Thefts in stores: 3 ways to try to avoid them
In today’s blog we will analyse in detail a theft filmed by surveillance cameras and recently released in a Police video. We watch a gang of thieves who steal from stores; the target of the gang is a very normal shoe shop.
Now let’s see how they break in through the shutter, the protection systems adopted and the precautions to avoid this type of theft.