Union Five Lever Deadlock Jammed

Black Dog

The lock on my back door is locked and I can't open it this morning. Any advice would be welcome.

It is a five lever Union deadlock. I can't see anything jammed in the keyhole. I've sprayed in WD40 with no benefit. There is no damage to the key and it is a new lock, put in just in early December.

Locksmith? I'm based in Waterford.

endasmail

locksmith

Black Dog

endasmail wrote: »

locksmith

It would seem to be the only option.

Black Dog

Locksmith arrived - tried various methods of opening the lock but the Union five lever has an anti-picking device and he didn't succeed with this approach. He then drilled a hole through the timber of the door and into the lock itself - very careful measurement so as to enter the lock at a very precise point, had a tolerance of less than one millimetre to each side of the drill bit. He then opened the lock with ease.

A small spring within the lock had broken - don't know how, makes no sense in such a new lock - and this had come between the key and the levers.

New lock now installed, all well. €75

danjo-xx

Black Dog wrote: »

Locksmith arrived - tried various methods of opening the lock but the Union five lever has an anti-picking device and he didn't succeed with this approach. He then drilled a hole through the timber of the door and into the lock itself - very careful measurement so as to enter the lock at a very precise point, had a tolerance of less than one millimetre to each side of the drill bit. He then opened the lock with ease.

A small spring within the lock had broken - don't know how, makes no sense in such a new lock - and this had come between the key and the levers.

New lock now installed, all well. €75

Glad you got sorted I wonder could you claim against Union?

endasmail

danjo-xx wrote: »

Glad you got sorted I wonder could you claim against Union?

good idea that
ya should write a letter to them