Locksmith Services in Kenmore

Your local locksmith in Kenmore

Kenmore sits at the east end of Loch Tay, a small conservation village of whitewashed estate cottages with a great deal of holiday accommodation around it. For a place this size the proportion of second homes and short-term lets is unusually high, and that shapes almost every job we do here. It is also a fair distance from anywhere, so turning up with the right part first time matters more than it would in a town.

Holiday lets and key control. The recurring problem is not break-ins, it is keys: keys that do not come back, keys copied at some point in the past, and no record of who holds what. A cylinder that can be changed quickly deals with most of it, a key safe in a sensible position deals with the rest, and doors can be keyed alike so a changeover means handing over one key rather than four. If you let short-term there are also lock and fire-escape rules to meet and a licence from Perth & Kinross Council.

Houses that stand empty. A second home here can be shut up for weeks at a time, and an empty house has nobody to notice a problem. It is worth reading what your insurer says about unoccupied property, because many policies set extra conditions once a house has been empty beyond a set number of days, and some of those conditions are about the locks fitted. Better to check the wording now than at the point of a claim.

Whitewashed cottages and timber doors. Much of the village is traditional stone with timber front doors, and insurers usually expect a five-lever mortice lock meeting BS3621 on a timber door. Older cottages are often still on two- or three-lever locks that would not meet it. Timber also moves: after a wet winter a door can swell enough to stick, which gets blamed on the lock when the lock is perfectly sound.

Boats, bikes and outbuildings. With the loch on the doorstep there is more kit in sheds and garages here than in most villages — outboards, paddleboards, bikes, tools. An outbuilding is usually the weakest structure on a plot and the hardware it came with is rarely worth much. It is the cheapest security improvement available.

The distance is the point. Kenmore is a long way from a merchant, so a return trip for a part is a real cost to you as much as to us. We carry a wide range of cylinders and gearboxes in the van precisely so that a job out here finishes on the first visit. Where a part does have to be ordered, a temporary lock goes on free of charge so the door still locks that night.

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