Gold Coast Security Tips

I met with a rather embarrassed father and rather amused looking daughter at their Gold Coast apartment today. He was… underdressed… wearing just a pair of jocks. She was all decked out in her bike gear and was clearly in a hurry to be on her way. It was a simple...

Modern and semi-modern cars come with a variety of safety features that more often than not work well… but when do they play up? Expect them to be a nuisance. Today’s lockout story is brought to you by Ford, with their entry in the “most annoying car” category with...

Bit of a funny one today, with a keys locked-in car scenario. Car makers are always coming up with new and seemingly foolproof ways to stop people from locking their keys in their cars, for example. First, we had cars that could only be locked by a key in the door. No...

I had a pretty hilarious job today which involved adding locking bolts to the sliding door of a Gold Coast house. The owner of the house had returned home after work several times to find the back door wide open and the house in a dishevelled state. It didn’t appear...

Can you guess what the most common reason is I’m called to help someone with a lockout on the Gold Coast? Most people guess “got drunk and lost keys, left keys at work, keys in car et cetera”. Whilst these certainly are common reasons the winner by far is the...

I had another funny job today seems like I’m on a bit of a roll. My latest client (Marc from Geelong.... got permission to use his real name for a change, most wan't to keep things a bit quiet).  Marc is a bit of a finance whiz, managing a mortgage broker business in...

I had a strange job this week in Burleigh heads with a second call out in 10 days to repair a malfunctioning lock. It seemed very odd as we’d done the repair and I knew it had been done right so I was a bit concerned as to what could have happened. We had initially...

Just back from finishing a deadlock barrel replacement job on the Gold Coast. There had been no break, or at least nothing appeared to be missing. But the home owners felt their security had been compromised and were having trouble sleeping or leaving their home...

Complete lock replacement this week on a burgled house on the Gold coast. The tenants were pretty upset. They’d been away for the weekend at a music festival down at Byron Bay and had come home to find their house had been emptied. Back door kicked in, and pretty much...

Many unauthorised home and business entries happen via the most obvious but most ignored way. Someone with a key who shouldn’t have one. Who might this be? A former tenant or flatmate. A builder, tradesman, tradesman’s assistant, labourer etc. who had keys to premises...