If you’re considering purchasing locks to keep your loved ones and valuables safe and secure, for your home or business, the number of options available can be confusing, if not overwhelming. There are quite a few lock types and several different security considerations to take into account when making this important decision; however, the four most common types are lever locks, knob locks, deadbolts and padlocks. Total Services is there for you to guide you in these decisions and have fine-tuned their range to offer only the best, most secure door locks available in South Africa.
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Here, we outline a comprehensive list of the kinds of door lock available to property owners; however, Total Services will be able to guide you as to the type of lock that is safest and offers the best kind of after-sales support in South Africa. Firstly, there are padlocks, which are the only type not permanently affixed to anything else. Then, there are deadbolts, which are usually installed on external doors and are available as single, double, and lockable thumbturn configurations.
Although knob locks are often installed in residential environments on exterior doors in combination with deadbolts, and are sometimes used as the primary security feature, which is not wise because the lock cylinder resides in the knob itself and not the door and can be tampered with or removed.
Lever Handle Locks are the most common inner door lock, especially in commercial environments, being easier to use than knob locks as a push-down rather than a grasp-and-turn lock.
Cam locks are used in filing cabinets and storage facilities and rim cylinder and Mortise cylinder locks are usually used on entry glass doors. Wall-mounted locks are locks are exactly that – mounted in walls to provide access to a related cavity.
Interchangeable Core (IC) cylinders are frequently used in security gates and in bulk commercial applications for easy ability to re-key by swapping out the core without taking the lock apart. There are two primary styles of furniture door or cupboard lock, the bolt style or the push button style lock.
Added to this list are vending/T-Handle, surface-mounted Jimmy Proof deadbolts, rim latch locks, key-in -knob (KIK) cylinders as well as switch locks, and deposit box locks.
So as you can see, door locks cover a host of options but you can rely on Total Services to guide you in the best-quality, most secure door lock for your purposes.