Where was the commercial property located?
Volkswagen,
Rhosddu Industrial Estate
Wrexham,
LL11 4YL
Description of locksmith work and challenges faced:
We at Acton Locks attended a locksmith call out for commercial premises whereby a customer was locked out of a storage facility’s office building. We had to gain entry by picking two Yale Euro Cylinder locks with six pins on two uPVC doors. The locks needed to be replaced with Asec Vital Anti Snap Cylinder locks which were double Euro Cylinders, this means that to open the door you must have a key for the lock on the outside and a key for the lock on the inside.
Normally with a commercial business, a Euro cylinder should be fitted with a turn lock on the inside to comply with fire safety regulations however, this commercial building had fire exits on the inside therefore it was within building and fire safety regulations to fit such locks. The main challenge with Yale cylinders is due to the keyway being quite fine and also being a quality lock cylinder they possess anti-pick pins and hardened anti-drill pins.
The first cylinder was easily picked open by varying the tension on the cylinder plug. The second cylinder had more anti-pick pins inside the cylinder plug chamber and was therefore, more of a challenge to open, we then had to vary the plug tension and use different picking techniques as the cylinder migrated into anti-pick several times.
After a few unsuccessful attempts, we started to get the feel of how the cylinder was behaving and eventually adjusted the tension on the tension tool, resulting in the cylinder turning and the Euro lock cylinder opening allowing us to gain entry.
