Seems a reasonable price for a 5 lever lock. Probably best suited to an interior door.
Picked up a couple (yes the locks) at Whitescroft Swinton store, there were a few left.
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bonzobanana
24 Jan 174#9
Never find these B&M offers instore its a worse wild goose chase than some of the Tesco deals.
Bunglistik
24 Jan 173#3
^^^^ What do you expect, its a yale manufactured lock for a £1 :man:
MrHonky
24 Jan 173#1
Awesome price but yeah don't see a BS kite on there so not insurance approved for main external doors. Heat tho.
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MrHonky
24 Jan 173#1
Awesome price but yeah don't see a BS kite on there so not insurance approved for main external doors. Heat tho.
LightningPete
24 Jan 171#2
Might be useful for a second internal door to the house or a shed with not much in it. Probably wouldnt want to use it on my front or back doors like as above no kite mark approval.
Bunglistik
24 Jan 173#3
^^^^ What do you expect, its a yale manufactured lock for a £1 :man:
buddhabelly
24 Jan 171#4
Hmm, look identical to the ones they had in Screwfix about 1 year ago.
Key snapped off in the lock, so I had to saw through the dead-bolt with a hacksaw blade.
kamenitzabrit to buddhabelly
25 Jan 171#15
I bought a new Yale cylinder for my front door lock (called a night latch on b & m website) - all the yale locks were reduced, and my cylinder was £1.50.
What struck me was the lack of a name on the lock, as yale locks used to have the name showing facing anyone opening the door - are these genuine yale locks, or something obtained cheaply by b&m without too many questions being asked ?
The reason I wonder this, is because I struggled to get the key into the lock, and the quality is really bad, not what you used to get from this company.
What are the chances of anyone from trading standards checking up on every product sold in a place like b&m, which is why they can get away with selling lower quality items, providing they have some genuine paperwork to show they bought them in good faith.
There's a report in todays news about the boss of lego being fooled by fake items produced in China, and it was a big scandal when aircraft parts were found to be fake a few years ago.
To those who asked about insurance cover - it won't make any difference if you never claim will it - in other words nobody is going to investigate the quality or reliability of your locks unless you make a massive claim or the police have to investigate for some reason...... at which point it's too late to blame b&m for selling you something not fit for purpose.
hamzar
24 Jan 17#5
I got a green Yale NightLatch for £1 from B&M
christobal
24 Jan 17#6
none in Trafford store in ManC
YouDontWantToKnow
24 Jan 171#7
You will have no issues with the insurance after installing these. You just declare it as a 5 lever deadlock & that is perfectly acceptable & I doubt very much it would make any difference to your premiums at all.
This lock is what insurance companies want you to install rather than just a single night latch. In fact if you fit this in addition to your existing night latch your premiums should go down.
superfamiking to YouDontWantToKnow
25 Jan 172#19
Not true all insurance companies in the uk will only pay out on a house insurance claim if the lock on your wooden door is BS3621 specification or equivalent. This has no bs or kite mark and so if you have a break in your insurance company is within their right to void any claim. It also has to be on the FINAL exit door, so if you have storm doors, having a bs lock on your inner door is not enough if your storm doors don't have one.
HereKittyKitty
24 Jan 171#8
I thought all 5-lever locks were kite-marked? Any reason why they wouldn't be? Or why an insurance company would have a problem with it? Are kite-marked 5-lever locks safer than unmarked ones?
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Picked up a couple (yes the locks) at Whitescroft Swinton store, there were a few left.
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Key snapped off in the lock, so I had to saw through the dead-bolt with a hacksaw blade.
What struck me was the lack of a name on the lock, as yale locks used to have the name showing facing anyone opening the door - are these genuine yale locks, or something obtained cheaply by b&m without too many questions being asked ?
The reason I wonder this, is because I struggled to get the key into the lock, and the quality is really bad, not what you used to get from this company.
What are the chances of anyone from trading standards checking up on every product sold in a place like b&m, which is why they can get away with selling lower quality items, providing they have some genuine paperwork to show they bought them in good faith.
There's a report in todays news about the boss of lego being fooled by fake items produced in China, and it was a big scandal when aircraft parts were found to be fake a few years ago.
To those who asked about insurance cover - it won't make any difference if you never claim will it - in other words nobody is going to investigate the quality or reliability of your locks unless you make a massive claim or the police have to investigate for some reason...... at which point it's too late to blame b&m for selling you something not fit for purpose.
This lock is what insurance companies want you to install rather than just a single night latch. In fact if you fit this in addition to your existing night latch your premiums should go down.