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Moving tomorrow, key doesnt work!!!11111
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If she's only abroad 1 week in 4 you should be OK (HMRC-wise).0
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alisara
Get a can of WD40 just in case the lock is not changed by the LL's dad. If it sticks again, the WD40 might free it.
Only slight problemette with this solution is that you'll need to carry the WD40 with you in your handbag. Or car. No point if the WD40 is inside the property...0 -
Good tip about the WD40!0
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Loanranger wrote: »alisara
Get a can of WD40 just in case the lock is not changed by the LL's dad. If it sticks again, the WD40 might free it.
Only slight problemette with this solution is that you'll need to carry the WD40 with you in your handbag. Or car. No point if the WD40 is inside the property...
Good tip for a quick solution, but actually WD40 is not good for locks! It attracts dust and grit to stick to your keys when in your pocket, bag, dropped on the floor etc, which then wears away the mechanism inside. It also contains solvents (it is not actually intended as a lubricant anyway), and evaporates, leaving a gummy residue inside the lock. Mine of useless information me .......;)0 -
well thats the WD40 idea gone then.
I shall just have to cross my fingers and hope that it is all sorted! Stressed to the max with moving and now this0 -
Don't use WD40 on locks, it virtually glues them up. I will think of the powder I've been told you should use, I can't at the moment but a locksmith will tell you.
I'd always used wd40 until a locksmith a couple of weeks ago told me that it's the worse thing that you can use.
Remembered, graphite powder you get it in puffers, apparently.
Good luck with the move.0 -
Where would i get graphite powder, sounds good..0
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Many ironmongers will sell it too - usually in a little squeezy bottle so you can "puff" some into the lock.
I have also in the past successfully lubricated my locks by rubbing a soft pencil on the key, especially on the pointed areas so plenty of graphite comes off the pencil and onto the key.0
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