Nowadays, with all the information that is available online about how to pick and drill locks, more and more people are interested in better, more secure locks for their home or business.
Therefore, high-security locks are becoming more and more common for both residential and commercial use.
High-security locks are locks that are harder to pick and/or drill. In addition, they offer a restricted keyway of the keys, which makes them harder to duplicate. In other words, they have special keys that are not available in hardware stores and even locksmiths need to order them directly from the supplier, which of course, makes them very hard to duplicate. This is a very unique advantage that high-security locks have over regular locks. While home and business owners who have regular locks can’t know for sure how many duplicate keys of their home or business locks were made, and even more important, who has those keys, with high-security locks, once you have all your keys, it pretty safe to say that there is a very slim chance that there are some unauthorized duplicates.
We will go over the pros and cons of high-security locks, what they offer, how to choose the right lock, and more.