Are All Locksmiths Crooks?

Are you asking if the people who can pick locks and break into safes are criminals?
 
Steinhauer said:
Are you asking if the people who can pick locks and break into safes are criminals?
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It will increase your new opportunity to be incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections. :eek3:
 
whatdidyousay! said:
The keys never left my house so I know the locksmith did not copy them. He was very nice and fixed one of my locks for free. This is why I did not want my condo manger to do he job, he would want to use his own locks and that way he could had made copies .
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This is a picture of a very old deadbolt from way back when. Works well, and heavy.
 

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goodonya said:
I am glad it worked out! Locksmithing in its entirety is a real craft but they do not get paid as much as the other crafts up here. I do not know about down there.
I would probably go ahead and send a copy of the billing on to the Condo manager saying that your nephew the attorney recommended you do so and why.
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If you're talking to me, it's not the condo job to fix people locks. The home owners do that . One trustee that no longer lived here , and thank goodness for that, wanted to pass a rule that the manger and trustees could have keys to the all the units. Everyone voted a big fat " NO!" on this. The manger said he would look at my lock , and I told him " It was already fixed."
There is way no way I would let the condo manger work on my locks.
 
ChicagoBlue2 said:
This is a picture of a very old deadbolt from way back when. Works well, and heavy.
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My condo was not build with deadbolts like that . We had that kind on my parents house. Everything was made better then , the locks where made of heavy metal now they're made of junk. I have my dad old typewriter and it is very heavy . I would not be able to put a deadbolt like that on door , the locks all have to be the same and I would have to replace the door jam first.
 
I've never used a locksmith, so I don't know how much they charge. TCS installs all our locks and door hardware, inside and out.
 
Calvin said:
...Then few years ago, the bathroom door got locked and couldn't get it open so we called locksmith to get it unlock and it costs around $75 to do it.
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What kind of lock was on your bathroom? Most of the push-button type knob locks on bathrooms and bedrooms can be popped open with the little metal stick that you poke into the hole.
 
Reba said:
What kind of lock was on your bathroom? Most of the push-button type knob locks on bathrooms and bedrooms can be popped open with the little metal stick that you poke into the hole.
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That is what I have on my bedroom and bathroom doors .
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I called a locksmith today to have some work done on my locks and the guy said cost $100 -$120 just to come to look at my locks to see what needs to be done. This does not include any labor , if I buy the locks from the locksmith that is $200 more and that for the locks only. it could send up costing over $300 to work on two locks! My house is settling and this has messed up my locked. I called a hardware store to see if they had anyone that does repairs and they the locksmith phone #. I was told a handyman would not know how to fix locks , now I am thinking the locksmith had to be friend of the woman at the hardware store. I can't believe it, $120 just to look at my damn locks , is that a normal price, it feel like robbery to me. There is no locksmiths in my city and I never did use a handyman. I really needs to get my locks fixed and not sure who call now.
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It depends on where you live. NY/NJ would charge a lot. In Asheville, we had a great guy (not the close one - he has a bad rep) come make all our locks the same. He was fast and cheap. Where are you and you may want to contact a friend who has AngiesList. I canceled them finally but they were worth a little while we had them.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
My condo was not build with deadbolts like that . We had that kind on my parents house. Everything was made better then , the locks where made of heavy metal now they're made of junk. I have my dad old typewriter and it is very heavy . I would not be able to put a deadbolt like that on door , the locks all have to be the same and I would have to replace the door jam first.
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Yes, I know. This deadbolt is a very old one, and it works like it's supposed to. My guess would be it's a 1950's deadbolt, at the very least.
 
ChicagoBlue2 said:
Yes, I know. This deadbolt is a very old one, and it works like it's supposed to. My guess would be it's a 1950's deadbolt, at the very least.
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If I had my own house again I would buy the best deadbolt like the one you posted. I had an old brick house is was build in the 1800's . I locked
myself out once and had my mother's house skeleton key on me so I tried it on my locked and it worked. I would never keep a lock that made for skeleton keys , I was surprised my mom's key worked so good in my lock. I was lucky it did work.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
If I had my own house again I would buy the best deadbolt like the one you posted. I had an old brick house is was build in the 1800's . I locked
myself out once and had my mother's house skeleton key on me so I tried it on my locked and it worked. I would never keep a lock that made for skeleton keys , I was surprised my mom's key worked so good in my lock. I was lucky it did work.
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Nowadays they don't make them like that anymore, and good thing, too, or a bunch of houses or apartments would've been robbed.
 
The two times we were broken into they broke windows at the back of the house.
 
Reba said:
It was our previous house; no break-ins since 1988. :)
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When I had my new sliding door put in the guys had a hard time getting the door in and I asked if was measured wrong , one guy told me it was made so it could not be lifted out so easy . I really do not like sliding doors for that reason, they can be lifted right out and your whole house could get cleaned out!
 
shame you not live near me i self taught locksmith i would done it for nothing
 
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