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Need to change locks

  • 19-04-2007 12:57pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 ✭✭✭


    Ok moving into my new house tomorrow. I want to change the locks on the front and back doors. Anyone got a recomendation on a good locksmith and also how much roughly it'll cost??


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 790 ✭✭✭conor_mc


    When I moved into my new house, there was a master lock on all the houses in the estate. The foreman just removed the barrel from the doors and replaced them with ones fresh out of a box in front of me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 ✭✭✭cold_filter


    This is a second hand house, so there isnt a management company


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 890 ✭✭✭patrickolee


    Think it should be cheap enough... I need to do the same myself, if you get it done could you let us know how much it cost you?

    thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 ✭✭✭cold_filter


    Will do, hopefully i should have a price pretty soon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    If you can get someone to come with, you can just remove the locks, run down to the local hardware (while your companion looks after the house), get exact copies, and fit them. Cheap enough and easy.

    Can't see a locksmith being less than €200.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭kenco


    I did this a few years back on the front door of the new house and it was relatively easy as it was a standard Yale lock. If this is the case then they have them in Woodies, etc and it should just be a matter of unscrewing the old one and slotting in the new one.

    Take some measurements before you buy and you should be OK


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,577 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    seamus wrote:
    If you can get someone to come with, you can just remove the locks, run down to the local hardware (while your companion looks after the house), get exact copies, and fit them. Cheap enough and easy.
    Best option. Will cost maybe 20 euro per lock. Remember to do all external locks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭Tony255


    This is an extremely easy process just screw out the old barrel and screw in the new one no locksmith needed, get a new barrel in any good DIY store


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