Locksmith Chapeltown S35 High Green and Ecclesfield

S35 stretches across the northern edge of Sheffield, with Chapeltown at its centre, High Green and Mortomley to the north west, Ecclesfield to the south and Grenoside up on the ridge towards the woods. We cover all of it, including the newer estates and the older stone streets.

If you are closer to the city, our Firth Park and Shiregreen locksmith page covers S5, while Hillsborough and Middlewood handles the north west. For homes over the boundary in Barnsley or Rotherham, see our Barnsley cover and our Rotherham cover. The complete list is on our areas we cover page.

Much of the housing in S35 was built in the decades after the war, with large estates of semis, terraces and bungalows from the 1960s through to the 1990s, and newer developments added since. Most of these homes now have uPVC front and back doors with multipoint locks, and newer houses tend to have composite doors.

The faults we see again and again on these doors are mechanical, not mysterious:

• Handle goes up but the key will not turn: the door has dropped and the hooks no longer meet the keeps. A hinge and keep adjustment often fixes it.
• Handle floppy or will not lift: a worn or broken gearbox inside the multipoint strip. See our multipoint lock gearbox repairs.
• Key turns all the way round without locking: a broken cam on the euro cylinder, cured with a new cylinder from £20.
• Door will not shut at all: often a stuck latch or a hinge that has worked loose.

Our uPVC door lock repair service covers these in more detail, and if your door already refuses to lock, the guide to a uPVC door not locking explains what to check first.

Not all of S35 is estate housing. Around the older parts of Ecclesfield, near St Mary's church, and in the original villages of Grenoside and High Green, you still find stone cottages and terraces. Many have kept timber front doors with a rim nightlatch and a mortice lock.

These locks are usually decades old. Common jobs are replacing a worn nightlatch, from £20, upgrading a 2 or 3 lever mortice to a 5 lever BS3621 lock, from £75, and easing a door that has swollen against its frame. If you want the whole house checked, our lock replacement service explains the standards insurers look for.

While we are there we can fit anti snap cylinders rated TS007 3 star or Sold Secure SS312 Diamond, check that every multipoint lock throws fully, and look at the side gate and garage. Read our guide to the benefits of anti snap locks if you are unsure whether it is worth the extra.

For commuters who use Chapeltown station or the M1: we can open a car if the keys are locked inside it, through our car lockout service, from £65. We do not cut, program or replace car keys.