Help! Need new entry fob

RichyRich

My fiance has managed to lose her keys, including the entry fob that gets us into our apartment block :mad::mad::mad:

Anyway, the freeholder wants £18 for a replacement fob. I'll pay it if we have to, but it seems very expensive. But of course a fob for another building won't work.

Is there anywhere else we could get a fob from? For instance if I brought my fob along to Timpson's or similar could they programme a generic one for us? or are we resigned to biting our collective lips and calling the freeholder?

Thanks in advance

Rich

27col

Don't expect anything cheap at Timsons. I had a key cut there the other day and it cost me £7.50. Someone else at the bowls club got exactly the same key cut at a local shop for £3.50.

richi1

I work for a housing association and many of our properties have entry fob systems, problem is there are many different types/makes. The smaller blocks have the fobs programmed at the control panel in the block and the larger blocks (multi story type) are programmed via computer.
I dont think you will get replacement fob from any other source, timpsons etc.
As a guide our place charges around £10 per fob but as I say they are all different.

diable

Why worry as GF will have to pay, your beer money is safe so chill ;o))))))

ormus

yes you can buy the fobs cheap, ie stanley ones. but they need to be programmed by the owners of the block.
highly unlikely to do that. just pay up and dont loose em again.

ps
my auntie pays 15 quid for lost fobs, to her HA.

http://www.ccssltd.co.uk/pages/services/door-entry.php

keystone

RichyRich wrote: »

My fiance has managed to lose her keys, including the entry fob that gets us into our apartment block :mad::mad::mad:.

Make her pay for the replacement then - and the keys too! Don't you have insurance against lost keys?.

Is there anywhere else we could get a fob from? For instance if I brought my fob along to Timpson's or similar could they programme a generic one for us?

By the time you've faffed about doing all this you'll have spent more than 18 quid in time and petrol.

or are we resigned to biting our collective lips and calling the freeholder?

Yes I think so.

Cheers