Lock PM is preventative maintenance on locks which includes inspection, cleansing and lubrication of all mechanical components on locks. Modern smart locks require additional pm on the electronic components which often control the action of the mechanical function.
Preventative maintenance on locks maintains and improves critical function of locks and can extend the life of locks for years or decades.
Many people don’t consider their locks’ importance as the primary security protecting their valuables and loved ones. As long as they work, they are happy to get inside and when leaving, lock up and protect their treasures.
However, like all things mechanical, inspection, cleaning, and lubrication is required for maximal dependence. Preventative maintenance keeps those sentries in top performance. Otherwise malfunction and need to replace is imminent. The more a lock is used, the more they will need a little love and tenderness, and this does include the movement of doors and windows they are attached to. The higher the use of locks the faster the wear and tear.
Entropy is real and unavoidable. It’s not just wear and tear destroying your security agent at the gate, but oxygen and other natural elements in a slow race to consume the metals inside and out of your locks. Grease is good but not for your pockets, which is where most keys wind up when outside the castle walls. Spraying wd-40 inside your locks is not the best idea. Specialized lubricants can coat your locks’ innards, and not attach residue to your keys. Smart locks now bring an electronic component exposing to some additional entropic forces such as electrical storms, lightning and corrosion from batteries. All locks are vulnerable to flying debris and key or code loss. Many customers will note that simple brownouts or power outages can knock out the communication with garage doors as an example of electronic vulnerabilities.
This applies to all locks, commercial, residential and automotive.
How to maintain locks?
Locks are the critical cornerstone to security. Locks are also quite complex. The functions of locks tend to work on action of smaller and smaller components which are designed to move, catch, slip, grab, lock, block, spring, and tug in exact timing, to permit certain actions by keys and codes with certain or all permissions. Like watches that tell time with accuracy, locks are similar in component design and their accuracy is dependent on design, installation, and maintenance. Shifting buildings can cause lock malfunction regardless of size, requiring more maintenance. However a regularly scheduled maintenance program can prevent these and other causes of lock malfunction, especially from a qualified, expert locksmith.
A Locksmith of Record with exceptional skill can create a regularly scheduled maintenance program which is more critical than alarms. Alarms report breach of your castle, but excellent locks prevent breaches entirely. The function of your property’s locks and keys can save your life, and make your life easier as locks keep the wrong people out and proper keys permit the right people in.
Knowing what needs to be inspected and the proper pieces which go in proper places are critical to maximized lock preventative maintenance. Trained and experienced locksmiths can identify strike patterns on the outside and inside of your locks, which indicate problems now or in the future, and can usually diagnose the malfunction day like insurance actuaries. The higher the skill, the better the prediction.
Your locksmith of record can prevent malfunction day, which usually comes at the most inopportune time and help you avoid it with light repairs that continue to support your lock’s function as the real security guard of your life belongings.
As usual, but often ignored, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Locks can be costly to replace in both hardware and service and there are often mistakes made by installers who are not trained, expert locksmiths which bear poisonous fruit later. Migration of digital or smart locks into American life protection means more expensive hardware, higher skill for installation and management, and unfortunately higher repair fees with more frequent maintenance.
More often, lockout calls to locksmiths are coming from people who knew they should have changed their batteries but didn’t get to it until they couldn’t get back in. This is caused by the fact that all electronics work on voltage. When they reduce their voltage, again, usually at the most inopportune time, they simply do not work. Hacking them with a soda pop can tab probably won’t work either.
So avoid the pain and enjoy more peace of mind in your safety with a preventative maintenance plan by your locksmith of record, designed to maintain and improve the life and function of your locks so you remain in control of who comes in and who goes out of your castle!
LockPM by US Key Guard Locksmiths is a low cost solution to maximize performance and life of locks and keys. However they are limited by service area to keep costs low which are extended to clientele in their service areas.
More service subscription to crime prevention such as LockPM by US Key Guard Locksmiths, contributes to the overall community safety, increasing the crime defense ratings of each individual property and whole areas. The greater the attention, the greater the crime prevention. Individual choices contribute to the entire community defense and national defense in aggregate.
