Emergency Locksmith in Manchester

It is answered by our own dispatch team, who know the engineers and the area. They can tell you what to do in the meantime and give you a real arrival time, not a script.

Typically within sixty minutes in our twelve priority areas. Elsewhere across Greater Manchester and north Cheshire we tell you a realistic time on the phone. If we cannot meet a time we will say so, not promise and miss it.

Yes. Evenings, weekends and bank holidays carry a higher rate than standard hours, and the pricing page says so plainly. What does not change is that you are told the figure before anyone is dispatched.

We will tell you on the phone if we think it can wait, and what the price difference is. The decision is yours. If you would still like someone tonight, we come.

Within 45 minutes across Manchester and the nearer parts of Greater Manchester, including Didsbury, Chorlton, Prestwich, Sale and Altrincham. Further out, towards Wilmslow or Bury, we tell you an honest time when you call rather than a hopeful one. The locksmith phones you when leaving the previous job, so you are not standing on the step guessing.

Yes. Before opening a door we ask for photo identification and something linking you to the address, such as a bank card and a letter inside once the door is open. Tenants can be verified through their landlord or agent by phone. It is a small inconvenience, and it is the reason you can trust that we would not open your door for someone else.

Usually not. Most nightlatches, mortice locks and standard euro cylinders are opened by picking or bypass and go on working afterwards. Some high-security cylinders and seized mechanisms cannot be opened non-destructively, in which case we tell you before drilling and fit a replacement from van stock on the same visit, with new keys handed over before we leave.

Evening, weekend and bank holiday rates are different from daytime rates, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. Both are published on our pricing page. Whatever the hour, we confirm the callout price and the likely cost of any parts before a locksmith is dispatched, so the figure on the invoice is the figure you agreed on the phone.

Yes. The locksmith secures the door on the first visit and, where the frame or glazing is beyond a same-night fix, our own glaziers board up so the property is weather-tight and secure. The permanent repair is then arranged through our burglary repair and make-safe service, with paperwork your insurer will accept.