Can you get all my Murrumbeena door locks onto one key?

Sometimes. It depends on whether the existing hardware is compatible with being keyed alike. We will check what is fitted and tell you whether it is possible with your current locks or whether some would need replacing.

Adjoining Carnegie

Locksmith Murrumbeena VIC

Murrumbeena sits directly north-east of Carnegie, close enough that the boundary between the two is not obvious from the street. We work there regularly from our Koornang Road base.

It is a predominantly detached-housing suburb, and the locksmith work reflects that: front and back entry doors, side gates, garages and sheds, rather than building entry systems.

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Working from 14A Koornang Rd, Carnegie VIC 3163

Front elevation of a single-fronted weatherboard Melbourne house with a dark timber front door

Murrumbeena · Victoria

Local context

Doors in Murrumbeena

What the property stock is actually like here, and why it changes the answer.

Detached homes with more than one entry point

Many Murrumbeena properties have a front door, a rear or side door, a garage and a gate. When people think about lock work they usually think about the front door first, but the rear and side entries are frequently the ones running the oldest hardware.

Renovated homes with mismatched hardware

A lot of the housing stock has been extended or renovated in stages. That commonly leaves a property with several different lock types and several different keys — one of the more common reasons people ask about keying locks alike.

Timber doors and seasonal movement

Older timber doors move with the weather. A door that locked cleanly in summer and binds in winter is often an alignment issue at the strike rather than a fault in the lock.

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