Best Security Improvements for Your Chandler Business
Chandler’s ACME Locksmith performs mobile door hardware repair, and we are often asked, “What is the best things I can do to protect my business from a robbery or break in?”
There are two major weaknesses in commercial aluminum / glass storefront doors that allow them to be easily and very quickly bypassed — even by a complete novice.
- Attacking the mortise lock itself by twisting it out and the other,
- Attacking the mortise body (where the mortis lock is installed) by bypassing the lock
These attacks work on all mortise type locks and lock bodies. These locks are most commonly found in strip malls on glass/aluminum store front doors. But major office centers with glass doors use them as well.
What’s more is that it doesn’t even matter if you’ve installed a high-security lock that cost hundreds of dollars, it will not protect your commercial storefront door from these break ins.
Break-in By Twisting the Mortise Lock
Without a cylinder guard, the mortise lock itself is very susceptible to an attack.
A simple pair of channel locks is all that is needed to torque the lock and quickly break in to your small business.
To fix the issue where a pair of pliers or channellocks can twist out a mortise lock, ACME Locksmith will install a cylinder guard. This will prevent tools from being able to grab the lock.
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Recently a YouTube personality made this weakness generally known to over 10 million viewers!
Though bypassing the the commercial storefront door requires a specialty tool, it can be purchased online by anyone, without restriction, for just a few dollars.
This business security lock weakness results from the design of the mortise body itself. The specialty tool can be slid into the lock, twisted, and pulled to release the lock’s latch. The door will swing freely open.
A latch guard ensures that this technique cannot be used to release the lock mechanism because of the bends that would be required make it impossible to do.