Front-door brass cylinder pitted into uselessness after 22 months
Sunday afternoon at Seagate - new resident (year 2 in the home) called because her front-door brass cylinder had pitted to the point that the key barely turned. Original builder-grade brass, 22 months on the coast.
We swapped to a PVD-coated marine-brass Schlage B60, re-pinned to her existing key, and quoted on the back-door + slider deadbolt which we found were also pitting. She did all three - $345 total. 90 minutes.
Seagate is the most expensive ZIP for hardware service-life. We default to PVD-coated marine-grade brass on every install here.
Marine-grade brass swap