How To Prevent Thieves To Smash Your Lock In Seconds

A screwdriver, a wrench, nine seconds and your cylinder lock it’s smashed. 80% of locks can be opened in less than one minute. From an outside point of view, you can see much difference between a normal lock and armored ones. If there is only air underneath the external bezel, in just nine seconds the lock is already out (and without making a sound). Even it its protected against wrench use, it does not save itself from being destroyed either. A screw and a simple tool can disassemble the entire mechanism smoothly in one minute and 10 seconds. Simple tools that anyone could have at home are used to break into your property.

“With very little investment, this minute can turn into a 15 minutes of work for the robber”, explains Andreu Maldonado director of INN Solutions, a company specialized in security. 100 dollars are enough to improve the resistance to the attacks of the robbers and even dissuade them from the attempt. After all, it’s about  “gaining time and making them “to be as noisy as possible”, because  “total security does not exist”, honestly says this specialist.

Is your lock safe enough?

Currently, locks are being developed with electronic traps. Locks that, when forced, trigger an alarm before the criminals can enter the home. Even so, the sound alarm could also be deactivated with an inhibitor, “but the thieves would have to be of a much higher professional level and in most cases,  facing an uncertain value loot, they don’t even try”, they reason from the company.

Better locks or alarms?

In recent years, security has swift internationally to alarm systems, “but they do not prevent thieves from entering, because they sound when they are inside,” says Maldonado.  The margin that gives the alarm and what it takes for the security or police to arrive is enough time for the intruder to take the loot. For this reason, professionals focus on the first obstacle the thief it’s going to face: the lock.

“Some people have the image of an illiterate thief, who sleeps under a bridge and who steals to eat, but in reality, they are professionally engaged in this, and on the internet they have many videos to train,” says the expert.

Magnetic Shields

In the event that the home does not have a cylinder lock, “the system is opened with lock picks in less than a minute and without breaking anything,” the locksmiths point out. For this type of locks, they recommend a magnetic shield with a combination that hides the keyhole and that does not imply the need to change the original door or lock.

Many times the interest in this type of protection systems does not arise until there has been some fright. “We are reactive, one does not improve the security of your house if you have not had a dislike at home, in the neighbor’s or a relative’s; It is not much money, but we always leave it for later”, they conclude.

Being prepared when they arrive by your door to select between your property or the one next to it, will be the difference between being robbed or listen to your neighbor story. A good, armored lock will make that difference, and thieves know it.