Garage Door Locks & Repairs

Garage door locks fail in two annoying directions: they stop keeping people out, or they stop letting you in. A T-handle that spins without gripping, a key that turns nothing, cables that have slipped off the drums — and suddenly the bikes, tools and freezer are sealed behind a steel door with no other way in. It's a niche that many locksmiths avoid; I've been repairing up-and-over doors for years.

If the existing lock and mechanism are repairable, it's £59 labour — often a case of re-tensioning cables, refitting the latch rods, or freeing a seized mechanism. Where parts have genuinely died, I fit the right replacement for your door's make: generic T-handles from £85, Cardale from £85, Garador from £89 and Steel-Line from £85 — the brands behind most of the up-and-over doors on Teesside's driveways.

Garages deserve more security thought than they get. They're routinely weaker than house doors, often contain thousands of pounds of tools and equipment, and an attached garage can offer a sheltered, unobserved route to an internal door. A solid, correctly fitted lock — and a lockable internal door beyond it — closes that route off cheaply.

Locked-out-of-the-garage emergencies get the same 24/7 response as house lockouts, with non-destructive entry wherever the mechanism allows. Every repair and every part carries a one-year guarantee, there's no VAT and no call-out fee. Free quotes — a photo of the handle and door usually lets me price it on the spot: 07543 554669.

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