Locksmith Mississauga Patio Door Locks

Locksmith Mississauga Patio Door Locks service is available for any home owner that wants to improve the safety and security of their homes. Locksmith Mississauga Patio Door Locks service is provided by our mobile and fast team of expert locksmiths. Locksmith Mississauga Patio Door Locks service will be at your door in 20 minutes from the time you call for our help.

Is Your Patio Door Secure?

Locksmith Mississauga Patio Door Locks

Patio doors are sometimes the easiest entry point for criminals.  People leave them slightly open and think because it is not on the ground floor it is out of reach of criminals or putting a dowel in the track will deter criminals from entry.  Unfortunately, we have news for you: craftier criminals know how to get the dowel out of the way, and they can procure ladders. Of course, having a dowel offers more security than not having a dowel, but having a patio lock with a spring-loaded bolt will be a much better solution to the problem.

There are many ways to get in through a patio door for the criminal.  Don’t worry, we are not divulging anything to criminals that they haven’t learned about in “Con College” here:

The round perforation can be knocked out, giving access to the lock mechanism.

1. They can knock out the perforation in your patio door handle and unlock the door with a screwdriver.  If there is a perforated round bit of metal in the center of your sliding patio door, that is to put a lock cylinder in.  If you or somebody else knocks that perforation out of the patio door, the lock becomes accessible and anybody can then unlock the door with a flathead screwdriver.  To prevent this, consider getting a patio door handle without a perforation or get a lock cylinder to put in the hole that results when the perforation is knocked out.  This cylinder can be keyed to match your front door and they are available in a wide number of keyways.  For whatever reason these are not standard key-in-knob cylinders.  They are often cheap and of non-standard dimensions.  Our search continues for high quality patio door cylinders of the correct form factor, but until then we must make due with these which solve a big vulnerability.
2. If the home owner wants to keep their sliding patio door slightly open for ventilation, they will often employ a dowel to keep somebody from opening the door further than a few inches.  This is a bad idea.  The reason it is a bad idea is that the criminal can stick a coat hanger or other thin device between the two sliding glass panels and flip the dowel out of the way.  Now the door slides all the way open.  We did this once when somebody’s deadbolt malfunctioned, locking them out, and the patio door was the only other door into the condo.  It worked like a charm.  Worse yet, there is no sign of forced entry and your insurance company may drag its feet paying out if you have insurance for burglary.  We found out that criminals actually figured out this technique for themselves.  To prevent this happening, you should consider installing a patio lock or calling us to install a patio door lock.

Call Locksmith Mississauga to find out more about the best patio locks or call us to help you install one.