IllustrationLocksmith in Joondanna
More villas and triplexes than houses. A street number here often isn’t enough to find you.
Joondanna, Western Australia 6060 has more attached homes than standalone ones — about 46 per cent villas and townhouses against 43 per cent houses, with roughly 43 per cent rented. Many homes are rear villas: several units behind one street number, with a shared driveway and letterboxes on a common post.
- Villas and townhouses
- About 46% — more than houses
- Rented
- About 43%
- Council
- City of Stirling
- Call
- Amco Locksmiths, 08 9444 2089
A 1939 township, subdivided ever since
The area was the first declared township in the Perth Road District, with its boundaries gazetted in November 1939, and it filled up fast — driven by the district’s first public housing scheme of the late 1940s between Charles, Green and London Streets, and essentially complete by 1958. The original stock is late-1940s and 1950s brick-and-tile plus timber-framed workers’ cottages, and the City of Stirling records that those timber cottages have been progressively demolished for unit developments. That is exactly why attached homes now outnumber houses.
The practical consequence is worth spelling out, because it changes how a job is booked. A Joondanna address is frequently one of several dwellings behind a single street number — survey-strata groups of two to six units, each with its own front door and its own letterbox, sharing a driveway and often a gate. A rekey can be done for one unit without touching the others, and a letterbox barrel can be changed on its own. Tell us the unit number when you call and we will find you first time.
What Joondanna does not have is shops. There is no shopping centre and no retail strip of its own — residents use Dog Swamp and Flinders Square over in Yokine. That doesn’t matter to us, because we come to you.
Amco Locksmiths covers Joondanna, Western Australia 6060. One licensed locksmith, mobile, no call centre and no shopfront to drive to. Call 08 9444 2089, or send a photo of the lock with the quote form.
Everything we do in Joondanna
One licensed locksmith, one van, and the same person on the phone and at your door.
Lockouts, 24 hours
Villa and house lockouts, opened without damage to the door.
Rekeying
One unit at a time, without touching the rest of the group.
Lock repairs and new locks
Older hardware on 1950s brick-and-tile homes, serviced where it can be.
Screen and sliding doors
Aluminium security screens on the older houses, keyed differently from the front door.
Digital and smart locks
Keypad locks on a villa front door, subject to the strata being happy with it.
Car keys and remotes
Spare and lost car keys made in the driveway.
Key cutting and spares
Spare and letterbox keys cut on site.
Business and commercial
Business door locks repaired, and rekeyed when a key goes missing.
Worth knowing in Joondanna
Rekey a single villa
Re-pinning only that unit. The neighbours keep their keys.
Letterbox barrels
We cut a replacement key or change the barrel.
Shared driveway gates
Group gates and common access, keyed to match the unit where the strata allows.
No surprises on the day
- Price agreed first. You know the cost before any work starts, including after hours.
- Repair before replace. We only swap a lock when it is genuinely worn out.
- Drilling never costs you extra. If a barrel has to be drilled we say so before we start, then fit a new one keyed to your existing key at no charge.
What customers say
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“I highly recommend Magnus from Amco Locksmiths. He was very quick to respond to my enquiry and was able to see me the next day. He showed up on time, had great communication and was very professional and friendly throughout the process.”
Read on Google →“I recently moved to a new house and wanted to change the locks for security. Magnus arrived on time and worked efficiently to do just that, also cutting more windows keys and rekeying the garage remote. He even oiled the squeaky garage door at no cost! I would use Amco again in a heartbeat.”
Read on Google →“Great communication advising when he would arrive. Quick, friendly service and very knowledgeable. Highly recommended.”
Read on Google →“Very friendly and replies fast! Definitely recommend!!”
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Straight answers
Can you rekey just my villa, not the whole group?
Yes. Your own front door is yours. We re-pin only your cylinders, so nothing changes for the other units in the group.
Who fixes a letterbox lock here?
We do. A single letterbox barrel can usually be changed without touching the rest of the bank.
Do I need strata permission to change my lock?
For your own front door, usually not — but check, because some schemes do have rules. Anything on common property, like a shared driveway gate, does go through strata.
Does Joondanna have shops?
Not really. It has small local shops only — the nearest real retail is Dog Swamp and Flinders Square in Yokine. It does not affect us, since we come to you.
Which council is Joondanna in?
The City of Stirling. Its southern boundary along Green Street is the council line, which is why neighbouring streets can be in a different city.