Services
A door opened at two in the morning, a new lock for a new house, a uPVC door that has to be lifted to lock, a kicked-in frame made safe, a master-key suite for a block of flats, a car key cut on the drive. Each has its own page with what it costs and how it works; the prices page has every job by day and by night.
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Locked out, keys lost, a snapped key, a lock that will not turn, a door slammed behind you: ring, and a DBS-checked locksmith is on the way within minutes with a text to say who and when. Non-destructive entry in ninety-seven cases out of a hundred, the price agreed on the phone, and the lock changed the same visit if the keys are gone.
£69 from 8am to 8pm, Monday to Saturday; £99 from 8pm to 8am, Sundays and bank holidays.
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New locks for a new house, lost keys, a tenant change, a divorce, an insurer's letter or a lock that has just worn out: supplied and fitted at a price on this website, with the grade your insurer asks for, the old lock bagged and the keys tried in your hand. Booked jobs get a two-hour slot and a text on the way.
Standard euro cylinder £85; TS007 3-star anti-snap £120; BS3621 five-lever mortice £135; BS3621 nightlatch £125; all supplied, fitted and including VAT, with three keys.
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The door that has to be lifted to lock, the handle that has gone floppy, the key that turns but nothing happens, the window that will not lock: most are the mechanism, the hinges or the alignment, not the whole door. We carry the common mechanisms, gearboxes, handles and hinges on the van and fix most of them in one visit at a price on this page.
Realign, adjust and service £55.
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After a break-in: the door or frame made secure that night, a new lock so the house is yours again, the frame repaired, the window boarded until the glazier, and a crime number and an invoice your insurer accepts. Then a walk round with you to find the next weak point before someone else does.
£140 for the first hour including the call-out at any time of day or night, making the house secure and a written report for the insurer; parts at the published prices; boarding a window from £60.
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For businesses, landlords and letting agents: lock changes between tenants at a fixed price, master-key suites so one key opens everything and tenants' keys open only theirs, keypad and smart locks on office doors, panic bars and fire-exit hardware that meets the regulations, and an account with a 24-hour number and a monthly invoice.
Tenant changeover cylinder £75 fitted on account.
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Lost the only car key, or the fob has died: a new key cut and programmed to the car at your driveway, from £95, usually half the dealer's price and the same day. Forgotten the combination, lost the key or inherited a safe: opened from £120, nearly always without damage, and a new lock or combination fitted so it is yours again.
Car keys: a cut-and-programmed key from £95, a remote fob from £145, an all-keys-lost from £180, at your car, most makes.
Who comes to your door
Anyone can call themselves a locksmith; there is no licence in Britain. So we do what a licence would: an enhanced DBS check for every locksmith, renewed every year, with the certificates on the wall of the shop; photo ID with our number on it, so you can ring the shop and ask if the person on your step is ours; marked vans; and a text with the name and photo of who is coming before they arrive. We are members of the Master Locksmiths Association, which inspects us.
The emergency line is answered by one of us, 24 hours a day, and a lockout is a fixed price on the phone before anyone leaves the van. For a lock change, a uPVC repair, a car key or a safe, the booking form takes two minutes and we reply within the working day with a two-hour slot.
