LANCASHIRE LOCKSMITH • HOMES & BUSINESSES
Commercial locksmith work covers lockouts, cylinder changes when staff leave, shutter and fire-exit hardware, make-safe after a break-in and master key systems. The components are priced from the published list; wider work is quoted on the phone once we know the premises and the doors.
Charges confirmed on the phone · call-out and labour rates
Shops, offices, pubs, salons, warehouses and industrial units across Lancashire. The difference from domestic work is rarely the lock — it is the number of people who hold keys and the cost of the door being out of action.
A commercial lockout is answered like any other, 24 hours a day, with one difference: whoever calls has to be able to show they are authorised to open the premises. A lease or licence to occupy, a bill in the business name, headed paper, or your name on the public company record. It takes a minute and it is the same check that stops someone else being let into your unit. Emergency entry is listed from £132.
The most common planned job we do for businesses. Staff leave, contracts end, a set of keys is not returned, and nobody can say how many copies exist. Changing the cylinder rather than the lock keeps the existing hardware and issues new keys — from £120 per door, with mortice locks from £156. Keyed alike across front, rear and internal doors means one key per person instead of a bunch, and one change instead of several.
A fire exit must open from inside without a key, every time, which rules out some of the hardware we find fitted to them. Panic bars and push pads wear and are regularly found seized on doors nobody uses until they have to. Roller shutters bring their own locks, ground bolts and the damage that follows an attempt on them. If an inspection or an insurer has raised something specific, tell us the wording and we will tell you plainly whether it is work we can do.
A master key system gives each person a key that opens only what they need while one key opens everything — useful once more than a handful of doors and people are involved. It is planned work: the doors are surveyed, the scheme designed, then the cylinders supplied to it. Worth pairing with a door service, listed from £108 per door, which is cheaper per door when several are done in one visit. Both are quoted before anything is ordered.
The line is answered 24 hours a day, every day. Early-morning, evening and weekend work is charged at the published out-of-hours rates and confirmed on the phone before anyone is dispatched. No fixed arrival time is promised.
A lease or licence to occupy, a utility or rates bill in the business name, headed stationery with your name, or your name on the public company record. A landlord or managing agent who will confirm it by telephone also works.
Yes. That is what a master key system does: individual keys open only particular doors while a master opens everything. It is designed around a survey of your doors rather than fitted ad hoc, so it is planned work rather than an emergency job.
Tell us what you need when you call and we will be straight about what we can do. Call-out is normally payable on arrival in the same way as domestic work; arrangements for ongoing or repeat work are worth agreeing in advance rather than on the day.
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