A common concern for any homeowner when calling a locksmith with an emergency is whether they will cause any damages like breaking the door or destroying the locks. Many people are worry about the high cost involved with replacing locks or repairing doors, however there are not a single situations when breaking the door is necessary if you’ve lost your key unless the house is on fire.
In this blog we’ll explain how a locksmith should unlock your door without causing any damages:
A Locksmith Can Help You Open Your Door Safely
No lock is completely impervious, but some are harder to bypass than others, that is why calling a locksmith on an emergency situation is the best option to overcome it. With the right tools and years of experience dealing with thousands lockout situations a professional locksmith can and will unlock almost any door without damaging either the door or the lock. Their high skills allow them to handle even the toughest locks efficiently all they need is more time and they will crack them too.
Most professional locksmith use non-destructive entry techniques to unlock your doors and they’ll go above and beyond not to cause any damage. They’ll carefully manipulate the lock internal mechanism with specialized tools like lock decoders, hand pick tools, pick guns, special air bags and other professional equipment, all in favor to open the door safely while avoiding unnecessary damages.
Understanding Locksmith Skills and Tools
Locksmiths are security experts and they posses a great knowledge about locks, keys and the way they work. Experienced locksmith technicians are trained to unlock doors without causing any damage and in order to do this they use a range of specialized tools and techniques such as:
Lock Picking
Locksmiths technicians are using this method to unlock doors, it works by adjusting the lock’s internal pins using special tools like a pick tool and a tension wrench to imitate the an original key, they will carefully align the pins inside the lock cylinder to turn and eventually open it.
Bump Keys
A bump key is a specially designed key that when placed in the right passion and tapped lightly with a screwdriver can moves the pins inside the pin-tumbler lock to the right position and allowing it to open. The technique is called bump key because of the little bump on the head of the key that aligns the pins and it is commonly used on standard residential doorknobs but is less effective on high security deadbolt locks.
Key Decoding and Cutting
Any professional locksmith with the right equipment can cut a new keys on-site. Expert locksmiths can decode a lock cut a new key that fits perfectly and unlock the door. Using key decoders and key cutting machines are basic skills locksmith experts need to have and by creating a key that matches the lock by its code allow them to open the door without replacing the lock.
Situations Where Damage Might Be Unavoidable
Professional locksmiths try to avoid damage as much as possible, but sometimes it’s necessary. When dealing with high security locks which are made to resist lock picking and bumping techniques, they will have to drill the lock as it might be the only way to remove it and get in. If a lock is broken or to damaged a non-destructive method may not be necessary as the lock is going to be replaced anyway so in order to save time they will also drill it and then quickly replace it. In urgent cases, life and death situations like when an infinite child or if an elderly person is heart and time is crucial to save his life than drilling the lock is necessary and acceptable.