Suggestions for Good quality Main door Lock

tightasagnats

In London, those with big houses/fancy stuff use Banham locks. I'll be getting a Banham lock on my new place, albeit not fancy/big

Hinges need to be good also, etc, google will bring up a wealth of info on locks and hinges to inform you/keep you awake at night.

Broglie

Thanks Everyone for your inputs. It indeed helps. I will looking at Banham locks. Many companies claim their locks are anti pick anti bump but if you search youtube there are plenty of videos almost on every new locks every new model has been easily picked. bit worrying but trying to find a good balance of quality and ease of use.

AlexMac

Wow; I thought I was security conscious, but while I change locks the day I move in, I never bothered to do more than change the yale barrel, and then change the 5 lever Chubb-type deadlock (like for like, so a £20-£30 DIY job) and if I really want to up the ante, stick in another second 5-lever deadlock in the upper half of the front door. If the frame's weak, I beef that up with a metal strip, and sometimes put metal pins or more cheaply, protruding screw heads into the hinge side, countersinking into the jamb as the door closes, so they can't kick the hinges in.

The irony is, having been burgled three times in 50 years (not bad odds for inner London) the baddies never bothered to pick my locks. They used the much simpler expedient of attacking the weakest window;

...usually at the back, but in one case, via the enterprising method of bunging a brick through the main front ground floor bay... then coming back the next night to remove the new pane while the putty was still soft ( luckily a neighbour saw them off. I slept downstairs the next few nights with a cricket bat!).

So rather than fitting a lock which "meets and exceeds requirements of several international, national and customer specific standards and ... provides a global solution...(and) can be integrated with electromechanical technology... is intelligent and highly customisable" (messages from the Abloy geeks) I just whacked in 2 inch screws on all my window locks, A tad late, as the last baddies trick was to pop the half-inch screws securing the upstairs window catches, using a crowbar and a neighbour's helpfully unsecured ladder, 3 weeks after I moved in and before I'd checked 'em. But the Alarm scared 'em out.

How are your window locks?