Locksmith Services in Dunblane

Your local locksmith in Dunblane

Dunblane is a comfortable commuter town with the cathedral at the middle of it, Victorian and Edwardian villas around that, and newer estates spreading out towards Ochlochy and Kippenross. Trains to Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh mean a lot of households where everybody is out during the day. We carry hardware to suit the range, so most jobs are finished in one visit rather than becoming a return trip for parts.

Who else has a key? This is a question worth sitting down with, and almost nobody does. Over ten years in a house, keys go out to a cleaner, a dog walker, a builder who was doing the kitchen, the neighbour who took parcels in while you were away, a grown-up child who has since moved out, and whoever sold you the house in the first place. None of them is a villain. But nobody keeps a list, and the honest answer for most households is that they do not know how many keys exist. If that is you, changing the cylinder gives you a clean start — one known number, one known list — and it is the cylinder rather than the whole lock, so it is a much smaller job than people imagine.

Handing keys out sensibly. If you do need people to get in when you are not there, there are better ways than a key under a stone. A key safe in a sensible position — out of sight of the street and not beside the door it opens — puts one key in one place you control. Keying doors alike means the person who needs to get in carries one key rather than three. And a cylinder that can be changed quickly means the day a key does not come back is an inconvenience rather than a problem.

Period villas. The older property around the cathedral and up the hill is largely on timber front doors. Insurers usually expect a five-lever mortice lock meeting BS3621 on a timber door, and a good number of these houses are still on older two- or three-lever locks that would not meet that standard. Bringing one up to standard does not alter the door — the lock sits inside it, and from the street nothing changes. Where the pocket cut for the original lock does not suit a modern one, recutting it to fit is part of the job and we do that ourselves.

The newer estates. Out towards Ochlochy, Kippenross and the newer streets the doors are mostly uPVC and composite on multipoint locks. The most common call is a door that has to be lifted or leaned on before the key will turn — usually the door dropping rather than the lock failing, and far cheaper to correct before the gearbox goes. When a gearbox does need replacing, the make can often be identified from a photograph but the size cannot: it has to come out of the door and be measured, which is why we carry a large stock of the common ones.

Whatever the job in Dunblane, you get the same promise: no call-out fee, no fix no fee, and a clear price agreed before any work begins.