Locksmith Cardiff
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FAST SERVICE

If you need a locksmith in Cardiff we can help. We cover all areas of  Cardiff and will respond quickly.

BEST QUALITY

We offer  an expert and friendly service for emergency lock opening, lock replacement and on-site key cutting.

FAIR PRICE

No cal out charge. All our services are competitively priced. We aim to cover all your locksmith needs, no matter how big  or small. Contact us today for full details.

Client Testimonials

Don’t take our word for it – here’s what our clients say:

Locked my keys inside the house. They arrived very quickly and got me back into the house in record time without having to change any locks. So happy to have found a very good and reliable local locksmith that doesn’t overcharge.

John D.

Efficient, prompt and friendly service gratefully received following discovery that we had been inadvertently locked out of our home…

would strongly recommend.
Mary J.

Locksmith Cardiff services

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Locksmith Cardiff 02921 900 180 We have no call out charge and will get to you as soon as possible regarding your enquiry.

If you are locked out of your house, you can contact Locksmith Cardiff Direct who are a group of professional locksmiths. With many years of expertise and skills, Cardiff Locksmiths unlock the door and locks with no damage to your business or home. They provide 24-hour services utilising up to date equipment and tools to open locks and offer better locks for your home or business. Locksmith Cardiff Direct also provides welding and glazing services to Cardiff and the surrounding areas. Here are top locksmith services available:

24/7 Emergency Locksmith

If you are unable to enter your house or automobile reach out to a locksmith who will open the locked door with extra care. The locksmith is available for the quick callout, and once you reach them, they will inquire about the lockout to determine the service required. The question likely to be asked includes whereabouts of the keys whether stolen, misplaced or locked inside. Also, enquire material of the door and type of lock that needs to open. Emergency locksmith services include replacing stolen or lost keys, doors refusing to shut or lock early morning or late at night and in case you can’t access your home or car.

Do you need to change the locks in your house? Have you recently lost your keys? Well then, you have come to the right place! We are a Cardiff locksmith company specializing in offering round the clock locksmith and emergency door opening services. If, for any reason, you find yourself in need of locksmith services, then feel free to call us.

We not only promise to offer the best services possible, but our services also come with a Price Guarantee. Additionally, we will dispatch a professional locksmith to your location at a moment’s notice. To top it up, all our quotes are offered free of charge, which means that you don’t have to worry about any hidden charges.

Interested in Getting Value for Your Money When Dealing with a Locksmith?

Ours is a company like no other in Cardiff. Over the years, we have come up with a set of principles that we use to guide all our operations. They include:

• Our professional locksmiths are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and 365 days a year. In case you were wondering, this also means we are available on bank holidays. When we say we are an emergency locksmith company, we MEAN every word of it.

• When you call our offices, we will do our best to ensure that a professional is with you in the next 15 to 30 minutes. It doesn’t matter whether you are dealing with a case of broken locks or lost keys; we guarantee that our professional will handle your case within the shortest time possible. The same case applies to clients who would like to upgrade their locks for enhanced security or who would like to change existing locks after buying a new house.

• Compared to many locksmith companies around which are run from national headquarters, ours is just but a family-run company. As such, we are in a position to offer more competitive and affordable rates compared to the rest.

24/7 Cardiff Based Locksmiths

Since our company was founded, we have continued to operate using the name Advanced Locksmiths. Furthermore, we operate twenty-four hours a day, ensuring you never have to sleep outside or in a hotel because you were accidentally locked out of your house. Ours is a well-established company that prides itself on its reputation and long-standing history of exceptional service delivery.

Apart from providing excellent service, we are also known for our affordable rates, which some say are among the best locally. Clients are often wary of dealing with ‘cheap or affordable’ companies as they deem them to be unprofessional. We would like to state that we are not only fully qualified but also insured.

You can check out the various 5* independent reviews posted by the clients we have helped out in the past few years. As you will see as you scroll through the reviews, clients come to us for our integrity, reliability, and professionalism. Moreover, we are better placed to address their needs as we cover a larger locality than most companies.

We have a big team of professional locksmiths, which has made it possible for us to cover all Cardiff areas. We offer services:

• From the city center to Barry

• Penarth

• as well as Newport and Radar

• and all the neighboring areas.

As earlier mentioned, our target response time is under half an hour. You can call us at any hour, and one of our support personnel will answer.

How Do Burglars Access Homes?

Did you know that close to 30% of all burglary incidents around Cardiff are those that are made via unlocked windows and doors? Also, most of these incidents occur between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m. Many homeowners believe that burglaries mainly take place at night. But this is not true, as our years in the industry have proven that such incidents occur during the day.

Look at it this way; many people are not at home during the day as they are either at school, at work, or out running important errands. By choosing daylight hours, the burglar is almost assured that they won’t get noticed when breaking into a house. And as noted earlier, 30% of burglars will access a house via an unlocked door or window.

Surprisingly, many burglars opt to gain entrance to residences via unlocked or open doors. First floor doors and windows are the most commonly used entrances. They become even more favorable when the house is surrounded by overgrown vegetation. The vegetation helps to conceal the burglar as they try to scale the perimeter fence to access the open windows.

Lock Snapping: Learn Some Information Related to Susceptible uPVC Euro Profile Cylinder Locks

According to police statistics, West Yorkshire currently has the largest number of burglary incidents in the entire country. The increase in these incidents is attributed to one of a kind breaking and entry method. Initially, all these lock snapping cases were recorded in Bradford, in the area near Leeds.

Susceptible Euro Profile door cylinders continue to be fitted to hundreds of thousands of homes across the UK every year. Some savvy burglars have, with time, come to learn how they can easily access your house even without the need to use a key. They do this through the use of the lock snapping method.

It’s a technique that specifically focusses on homes with Euro Profile Cylinder door locks where they get to snap the uPVC before entering your house through the front door.

Top Tips on How to Prevent Burglary Incidents in Your Cardiff Home

1. Check All the Home Entrances

Many wooden doors installed in today’s homes come equipped with an ordinary Yale lock. While the lock is perfectly fine for use in a residence, we always advise our clients to take time to enhance the security of their doors. Remember that the door is the first point of entry to any residence.

We, therefore, recommend that all available wooden doors get reinforced using a British Standard 5-lever mortice deadlock. Adding a secondary lock to the wooden door will make it harder for your standard burglar to tamper with the door and gain entry to your home.

2. Valuables

Whenever you leave your valuables out in the open, you subconsciously encourage burglars to break into your residence. You can make sure you don’t do this by making certain that any valuables in the house aren’t in full view of the windows. Also, if you happen to have any hard to replace valuables or highly expensive valuables you don’t want to lose, then we would advise you to install a safe in the house.

3. Exteriors

Did you know that your home exterior can provide an opportunity for a would-be burglar to break in when you are not at home? If the property has enclosed gardens and dark pathways, then it is a good idea to have some security lights installed. Modern security lights are a good deterrent as they will automatically come on when they detect movement in the compound.

4. Try to Make Would-Be Burglars Believe You Are at Home

While there are burglars that can be quite daring, not many will attempt to break into a house where they believe the owners may be at home. Normal burglars will only access a house whose owners are away. We always advise our clients to try and make passersby believe there is someone at home whenever they want to go away.

You can easily achieve this by using timers for all your electronic devices and exterior lights.

Our Professional Locksmith Services

As our name suggests, we are a family run company based in Cardiff, and which has specialized in the provision of professional locksmith services.

Retail, Commercial, and Domestic Locksmith Services

Even though many of our clients are homeowners, we are not exclusively limited to residences. Generally, we have designed our services to cover the Domestic, Commercial, and Retail sectors. Below is a look at some of the services we offer to our broad list of clients:

• 24-Hour Emergency Locksmith Service

• Door Replacement

• Emergency Door Opening

• Boarding Up Service/Burglar Repairs

• No Call-Out Fee

• Master Key Systems

• Locks Supply and Fitting

• Bars, Grills, and Shutters

• uPVC Specialist—Replacement and Repair of Broken Locks

• Access Control Systems

• Garage Door and Window Locks

• Carpentry Service and Door Repair

• Vault and Safe Supply, Removal, and Relocation

How to Stay Safe During the Holidays

Police estimate that there are often more than 6 million empty homes during any given bank holiday. For many Cardiff residents, the holidays are the ideal time to get away from home and take a short holiday, or even go visiting with friends and family. However, just because you are thinking of taking a break doesn’t mean you should relax and forget your home security.

The reality is that holidays are the ideal time for burglars to do what they do best; steal! As a Cardiff resident, you can rest assured that burglars are planning on targeting homes whose owners will be away. We have taken our time to compile a few tips to help you avoid being burglarized.

1) While this is an obvious point, but walk through the house to confirm that all doors and windows are securely locked. Make sure also to check the little keys often found on your window catches.

2) Homeowners like to hide spare house keys in easy to access spots,e.g., on the ledge inside your porch or under the potted plant by the door. But while this may seem convenient to you, it’s also an obvious hiding spot. Experienced burglars know to check such areas first. The best thing you can do is to avoid the temptation to hide that spare key.

3) As we mentioned earlier, it will be wise to make it appear as though there is someone in the house. You can always request a friendly neighbor or friend who lives near your residence to check on it while you are away regularly. By collecting posts and making sure all the curtains in the house are closed at night, passersby will assume that there is someone in the house.

Reports collected over the years indicate that most burglars would rather deal with an easy lock pick when gaining entry into a house. Others will check for open doors and windows. Installing automatic lights, a visible security alarm, and cameras all over the property will easily deter any burglar planning on raiding your house.

Even though there is no guarantee that your home will get burglarized when you are away, it’s always best to take the necessary measures to protect yourself. The measures we have described above will help keep your home safe during the day and even during your holiday days.

Remember, if you ever need a locksmith, all you need to do is to CALL US, and we will be there within 30 minutes or less!

Professional locksmiths rarely get a call out for work executed professionally. However, new locks can fail to work sometimes. They offer guarantees for up to 12 months for fitted locks and other fittings.

Cardiff and the surrounding areas

Locksmith Cardiff Direct provides unlocking, repairs and other services any time of the day in Newport, Barry, Canton, Roath, Rumney, Splott, and Whitchurch. Other areas are Rwibina, Penarth, Canton, Cathays, City Center, Ely, Fairwater, Gabalfa, Heath, and all surrounding areas where locksmith can reach in less than 30 minutes to offer emergency services.

In case you experience snapped key, misplace your keys, require an extra key for house or car or you want to install master locks in our home or business contact us.

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EMERGENCY LOCK OPENING

have you lost your keys or even locked yourself out? Don’t panic we can make your unlucky day a better day with our quick service.

LOCK REPLACEMENT AND FITTING

We can change & replace door locks and make sure that it’s working properly.

LOCK REPAIRS

There are number of reasons why a door lock will need repairing, and we are ready to fix all of them.

ON-SITE KEY CUTTING

The main benefit of onsite Key cutting is that you can test the new cut key is working prior to purchase.