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How Much Does It Cost to Change a Lock: The Price Crack Edition
The big question people usually ask when purchasing anything is how much it costs. The cost of a product is a factor because it all comes down to affordability for an individual. In this article, we will answer some of the most important questions a customer would need to know from a locksmith before the attendance of the locksmith at the property to carry out a lock change. As an overview labour and materials are as follows. This is based on expert opinion and conclusion on a lock replacement. Standard Lock replacement should cost between £73.00 and £115.00 plus VAT [...]
Locks and Cold Weather: The Freezing Locks Edition
Winter has finally come back round and with it some very frosty nights. Locks often work on small fragile parts of course the locking part of the lock is usually solid and reliable parts but not the springs and cogs that retract the locking points these can be usually much weaker parts of the locking case. If the parts become cold or frozen they can break especially if your door is slightly mis aligned, stiff or difficult to use. Before the worst of the weather starts it’s important that you make sure your locking system has been well oiled with [...]
Service Time: The Smooth Locking Edition
The Autum months and darker nights are back here with us, so we should use the time to prep for the cold and wet days coming ahead. Locking systems work a lot smoother when they have been lubricated. Servicing a locking system is a very easy and common thing to do it just requires a small amount of lubricant spraying into the body of the lock itself and then the lock to be worked two or three times to allow the lubricant to spread round and work itself in. Using a lubricant on a lock allows the lock to work [...]
Summer Sail UPVC Fail: The Alignment Edition
As we get much warmer weather across the summer months, the hot days are certainly more welcome. Our grass, our plants, our way of living all take positive impacts from the warmer weather. However, our UPVC windows and doors tend to have a negative effect which can often turn a nice warm steady day into a panic day. As many of us are aware, UPVC is manufactured of tough plastic composites and nearly every home or business in the UK is often secured by UPVC doors and windows. UPVC is usually a light and durable solution to secure our homes [...]
Sole trader or a small company? Getting the right locksmith for the people of Nottingham
When requesting a locksmith, often it will be in an emergency and you imagine all sorts of scenarios before the locksmith arrives on site. We can all agree the most important part of it all is that the locksmith who arrives is reliable and the service is to the best of his or her ability, which could lead you into believing a Limited company is sometimes a safer and more honest option than a sole trader. In Nottingham, this is certainly not the case. The locksmith industry in Nottingham is renowned for having some of the best sole trading Locksmiths [...]
Choosing A Reliable Tradesman off Google, who to avoid and why!
Most people nowadays will use Google as a go to tool to find a local or trusted tradesman, however only a small number of customers will successfully book with a local professional. Through the 90s and the early 2000s, finding a local tradesman was much easier because of the aid of companies like Yellow Pages and Thomson Local, however over the years online search engines have slowly erased the need for big yellow catalogues containing mainly local companies. Today, if you wanted to book a local locksmith, for example, most of you will go onto Google and type in the [...]