Do I Require a Residential or a Commercial Emergency Locksmith?

Here in the UK Locksmiths play a very important role in the day to day operation of many businesses big and small but they are also essential to the domestic or residential customer and offer many services from emergency lock maintenance to gaining access to you home after a lock out.

Almost all locksmiths working in the UK offer both domestic and commercial services because to a professionally qualified locksmith it is all the same; a lock is a lock whether it’s on a residential or commercial property so if you have had a break-in or an attempted break-in and just need locks replacing you don’t really need to tell the locksmith that it is a residential job or a commercial job.

Boarding up can be a different job depending on the building being commercial or domestic, most domestic boarding up simply requires standard sizes of board and standard equipment and tools, but a commercial premises particularly a shop with large show windows can need large, specifically designed boards and unique equipment  for securing the board, which a locksmith or a security firm may not carry on their vehicles as standard, so it is prudent to make sure that the emergency locksmith you call knows that he or she  is coming out to a commercial premises, shop or office building or else they might turn up and not have the right boarding up equipment with them on their vehicle.

This can result in longer waits for you and a big bill, keep in mind even locksmiths who say that they don’t charge a basic call out fee will charge you for the time it takes them to carry out the boarding up job and if the locksmiths are driving backwards and forwards through no fault of their own it is you or your company who will have to foot the bill.

It is also imperative to consider that not all locksmiths in fact carry out an emergency boarding up services and you should make sure that this is a service they do actually offer by looking on their website before you ring them and you also need to make sure that the locksmith you call out knows precisely what type of call out it is so he or she can bring the correct tools and equipment for the job.

So, whether you have had your home or office broken into, your home, office or shop window damaged or you simply need a locksmith to get you into your own home after losing or misplacing your keys it is important that you take care when choosing a local locksmith to come out to you as not every company offers the same service and a rule of thumb is that you should always call a local independent locksmith and never call a nationwide call centre.

A national call centre will charge a call out fee, while many independent locksmiths will not, remember; all a national call centre will do is ring a locksmith on their books on your behalf and add their percentage to the job. an additional concern people have with the large call centres is that they will claim to have locksmiths in every area when in actuality the nearest locksmith on their books may be 50 or even 100 miles away resulting in a much longer wait.

LT Locksmith Kendal offer a 24 hour 7 days a week emergency locksmith services throughout Cumbria, Lancashire and North Yorkshire covering all the major towns and cities including Lancaster, Morecambe, Kendal, Heysham, Windermere and Bentham