Locksmith Aylesbury

When you move into a new house or flat there are important safety measures you should take when you move into a new property. The first pre-measure you should take is to change the door locks in your property, especially the front door lock as this is the most likely to be tampered with/broken into in the event of a break in. Security measures like changing door locks should be put in place to make sure you and your family are the only ones that have access to your property. If it’s a property you have newly bought/mortgaged, then you have free reign to ensure your property is as secure as it can be. A good question to ask yourself is how many other people have keys to your home?

The reality is that unless you have the locks on your new home swapped out when you move in, you may never know how many people have a set of keys for your home.

The average household will have 7 keys for the front door, with only 3 or 4 of those keys being known to the homeowner. This is a scary statistic as you may ask yourself, where are the missing keys? Who has access to them? This is a question that no one can answer accurately since keys get lost track of, being either stored away or lost. Most often or not, previous tenants or perhaps friends & family of those tenants will have been given keys however these are still keys that are unaccounted for.

Now, these people may not have ill intent, but it still means they can potentially access your home. It also means that someone who does have malicious intent can gain access to your home if they know what they are doing, stealing keys from others to steal from your property.

The situation we’ve mentioned above does demonstrate the worst-case scenario and like you, we realise how unlikely that situation is to happen. However, the possibility is still out there since there are additional keys that you are unaware of. There is a still potential for someone to gain access to your home, without having to break in, making it incredibly easy for them to trespass and steal from your house. If you’re in anyway concerned for the security of your home then it’s a wise idea to replace the front door locks since it ensures that you and your family are the only ones that are able to gain access into your home. For more information about how you can improve the security of your home, please visit our page on Locksmith Aylesbury