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Padlocks Technical Advice Centre

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Which outdoor padlock is best to lock ladders to a vehicle?

Many working sites now require ladders to be secured to any vehicles carrying them and where holes on roof brackets are often only about 7mm wide, the outdoor padlocks need to be quite small. These padlocks are ideal for the job. Any of these options can be supplied as key differ or keyed alike so […]

What is the best weatherproof padlock for a beach hut?

As beach huts are placed right on the coast you would need to use a fully marine grade padlock making the Abus 24IB/60 an ideal choice. This weatherproof padlock is secure but not too obvious so will help deter thieves from breaking into the beach hut. The Abus 24IB/60 Diskus padlock is ideal by the […]

How do you get locks keyed alike for multiple access points?

Where you have multiple access points to one site we can supply a set of padlocks all keyed the same so one key will open any of the padlocks in the suite. This is ideal if you have a large site with a number of access points where visitors can use any of the gates. […]

What are Keyed Alike Padlocks?

For convenience many people will buy a number of padlocks and want them all to be identical and work from the same set of keys. These are known as ‘Keyed Alike padlocks’ and are sometimes also called ‘suited padlocks‘ or ‘same key padlocks‘. Since their cost is often only marginally more expensive than ‘keyed different’ […]