Blocked Garage Door
in Koekelberg

Koekelberg: The Basilica and Its Neighborhoods

Koekelberg is dominated by the Sacred Heart Basilica, one of the world’s largest churches. This small dense municipality combines working-class and quieter residential areas.

We work in apartment buildings and houses coexisting in this cosmopolitan municipality.

Locksmithing and architecture in Koekelberg

Koekelberg’s urban density translates into a wide variety of buildings and therefore locks. Tenement buildings on streets around the Basilica, built between 1900 and 1940, often feature massive front doors fitted with old lever locks and imposing strike plates. Upper-floor apartments use mortise locks with 30/30 mm cylinders. The Scheutbos area and residential streets toward Ganshoren have more individual houses with standard European profile cylinders. The 1960s-1970s apartment blocks along Boulevard Leopold II are equipped with intercoms and often aging electric strikes.

Common interventions in Koekelberg

The high population density and large proportion of tenants make Koekelberg a commune where door openings are very frequent. Commercial streets around Place Simonis generate regular requests for storefront security and metal shutter cylinder replacements. In older buildings, we often replace aging locks with SKG-certified models (burglar-resistant), while respecting original mortise dimensions. The commune’s cosmopolitan population means we serve clients in French, Dutch, English and sometimes Arabic.