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What Are the Differences? Picking, Breaking and Bumping Locks
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Best ways to protect  your family and home is to ensure that your home is properly secured. If not, today we will explain what are the difference of picking door locks, breaking door locks and bumping door locks. So that you can keep valuables in.

Locks are usually placed on doors, windows  that would serve as the ingress or egress of the structure with the homeowner having a couple of keys on them.

Most people who don’t want to  hire locksmith Canberra  they protect themselves and their property by having more safe door locks. Some even go to the extent of using multiple lock systems for even greater protection.  Traditional locks are still the preferred system as they are more reliable, flexible and do not rely on electricity for their locking potential to be used.

Electronic door locking systems offer great value and convenience because you do not need to carry your keys and less chance to lose keys.

Traditional locking systems are purely mechanical and rely on a combination of simple machines to work. Traditional locks have few disadvantages which includes being easy to pick and owners consistently losing their keys and that is when you can call locksmith Canberra.

Several homeowners add multiple locking systems to compliment their traditional doors and they also order extra sets of keys just in case they lose their keys when they go out.

Many homeowners rely on their door locks as one of their main lines of defence in their home security system against robbery. However, with so many new resources available on picking, breaking and lock bumping, it is normal to have questions about your home security system. Our locksmith Canberra team will explain them today.

This article will walk you through the different ways intruders breach locks, and share top home safety tips on how you can protect yourself against security breaches.

There are three main ways that intruders can breach your door lock:

  • Lock Picking
  • Lock Breaking
  • Lock Bumping

Lock Picking

Lock picking is one of the oldest ways robbery to break into homes. Using household items or only a few tools, robbery can manipulate the components of a lock to open the lock without a key easily.  The lock picking tools are able to manipulate the pins within the lock to turn the lock to the open position without damaging the lock or doorframe.

With this method, many expert locksmiths practice lock picking in order to help homeowners enter into their home after they have lost their keys, which grants access without damaging the lock.

Lock Breaking

Lock breaking is another tactic robbery to use to gain access to your home and breach your door lock. Through lock breaking, witg a set of tools, such as a screwdriver or hammer, to damage the lock to unlock the door, or use blunt force to damage the lock and entry way of the door to gain access.

This process of lock breaking damages the lock permanently, and requires the homeowner to replace the lock and doorframe too.

Lock Bumping

Lock bumping is a similar way to lock picking, except that it uses a “bump key,” which is a magic key that allows access to almost any lock it is used on.  Bump keys can be made at home with only a few tools, and used to gain illegal access into homes by intruders. Bump keys are most commonly used on pin-and-tumbler design locks.

Next time. we will discuss how to prevent from picking, breaking and bumping locks.

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