So What is Lock Bumping?

Lock bumping, bump and rap keys is a lock opening technique that has been employed by locksmiths for about the last 70 years as a way of opening pin tumbler locks.

In the UK nearly every household has a pin tumbler lock of some description securing there home. The most common of these are Yale locks and other makes of rim cylinder and Euro Profile cylinders which can be found on the majority of UPVC doors.

For many years lock bumping remained very much a ‘trade secret’. This has changed with the advent of the internet. In resent years countless web sites have appeared selling the modified ‘bump keys’ and teaching the techniques to the general public.  The technique is easy to  and the keys are inexpensive.

As you would expect when information like this is available it will inevitably be used and recent months have seen a rising number of burglaries where ‘bumping’ has been the suspected method of entry

So do you need to buy new locks? Many manufacturers are currently introducing bump proof cylinders as awareness of the problem grows. However a far more cost effective solution can be to treat your existing locks with Pickbuster

If you treat your locks with Pickbuster you will greatly increase that locks resistance to bump and picking attacks and at a fraction of the cost of new locks. The liquid acts a as a ‘shock absorber’ inside the cylinder slowing the movement of the pins and reducing the dynamic forces required for bumping to work. If you use the correct key you will not even know that the solution is there.

Pickbuster does not however make your lock completely ‘bump proof’ but it will leave your lock up to 90% more resistant to this kind of attack.

If you would like to know more about Pickbuster please contact us for details.