We had a locksmith here this morning to replace the lock (cylinder) on the apartment door.
This is because, around lunchtime yesterday, the door to our apartment opened. The upstairs neighbor, not really paying attention, had gotten off the elevator at our floor, walked to this corner of the building, put the key in the lock of what he thought was his apartment, and turned it.
Obviously, this isn't supposed to happen. I've tried to unlock the wrong door before; sometimes the key will go in, but it doesn't turn. Yes, there are a finite number of lock cylinder designs, but apartments 31 and 51 in the same building shouldn't have the same one, because people are more likely to try to walk into the apartment right downstairs than some other random house on the same street.
Before he left, we asked the neighbor to verify that his key really did work in our lock (i.e., that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cattitude hadn't forgotten to lock up an hour before that). Then we called building management, who said the locksmith would be here between 9 and 10 this morning. He got here about 9:15, after first changing the cylinder on the upstairs apartment. He then went back upstairs, saying he wanted to make sure we now had unrelated cylinders, returned and gave us the new keys, taking the old cylinder and keys with him.
As locksmith adventure go, this is pretty tame: nothing was lost or damaged, nobody was locked out, and it cost us nothing (though I'll be spending a couple of dollars at a hardware store to makeadrian_turtle a new key).
This is because, around lunchtime yesterday, the door to our apartment opened. The upstairs neighbor, not really paying attention, had gotten off the elevator at our floor, walked to this corner of the building, put the key in the lock of what he thought was his apartment, and turned it.
Obviously, this isn't supposed to happen. I've tried to unlock the wrong door before; sometimes the key will go in, but it doesn't turn. Yes, there are a finite number of lock cylinder designs, but apartments 31 and 51 in the same building shouldn't have the same one, because people are more likely to try to walk into the apartment right downstairs than some other random house on the same street.
Before he left, we asked the neighbor to verify that his key really did work in our lock (i.e., that
cattitude hadn't forgotten to lock up an hour before that). Then we called building management, who said the locksmith would be here between 9 and 10 this morning. He got here about 9:15, after first changing the cylinder on the upstairs apartment. He then went back upstairs, saying he wanted to make sure we now had unrelated cylinders, returned and gave us the new keys, taking the old cylinder and keys with him.As locksmith adventure go, this is pretty tame: nothing was lost or damaged, nobody was locked out, and it cost us nothing (though I'll be spending a couple of dollars at a hardware store to make
adrian_turtle a new key).