Smart Locks & Digital Security in Lane Cove

Local knowledge

The Lane Cove version of this job

Just over sixty per cent of dwellings here are flats, and the postwar red-brick blocks were built three storeys because that was the walk-up limit — no lift, no lift lobby, and the block's only controlled door at street level. The streets falling away to the river add the other half of the work: the ground drops so sharply behind Longueville Road that the laundry door and the side gate sit a full storey below the front entry, and that is the way most people actually come and go.

Just over sixty per cent of dwellings here are flats, and the postwar red-brick blocks were built three storeys because that was the walk-up limit — no lift, no lift lobby, and the block's only controlled door at street level. The streets falling away to the river add the other half of the work: the ground drops so sharply behind Longueville Road that the laundry door and the side gate sit a full storey below the front entry, and that is the way most people actually come and go. It is the difference between arriving at The Canopy on Rosenthal Avenue with the right cylinder on board and arriving with a catalogue.

Behind the common door, unit doors are mostly hollow-core on a latch and a single deadlock, with the intercom handset on the wall inside. The freestanding houses on the Riverview-facing streets are largely interwar — solid timber behind a security screen, on original hardware that has never been rekeyed since it was fitted. We see the same pattern right across Lane Cove and through Longueville and Riverview, so nothing about a Lane Cove call is a surprise.