Slightly further afield than Edinburgh, this door repair & access control job for the Open Arms hotel in Dirleton came out great! The door wasn’t in a great shape, with previous holes from unsuitable hardware, so I added strength & stability back to the door with large brass plates that look rather nice, and matching […]
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Please, if you’re reading this and near Edinburgh, add my number to your phone now. Save it under “Nigel the locksmith”, and call if you’re ever in need. It could literally save you thousands of pounds! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20825qwgz2o This couple were charged £2500 for a simple opening, and then fleeced of another £2500 to repair the
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A lot of customers tell me they they’ve been trying to find a locksmith that’s actually taking work, late at night. Others tell me they have explained the job to the locksmith, and suddenly they’re all “oh, I’m busy” when they realise it could be a hard job late at night. Last night I had
A nice little access control job here, which allows the client, and anyone else they want, access both via WiFi bridge/home assistant app, and locally with a fob, card or numerical code. Once the instruction sticker is removed from the number pad, it looks even better! On the inside is a high security British Standard
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Nice bit of locksmithing this afternoon! Customer calls, the front common door lock is broken. I attend, and some sod has superglued a matchstick into the cylinder! Completely wrecked, aside from the first pin. So, with 11 flats in the building, that’s over £200 of new keys. So, I took the lock, and the keys,
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I am delighted to host this paper on warded locks for my friend Richard Phillips. If you are familiar with locks at all, you’ll likely know that warded locks were, for centuries, what protected almost anything of value, and they are still in use today on churches and other old buildings, with original locks that
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Further expanding our ability to service the higher end of the security market, we now carry key blanks for most of the high security steel doors found about the place, including also a wide variety of high security blanks for manufacturers like Mul-T-Lock, Garrison, Brisant Secure, Master and more. We can also save you a
Probably the widest selection of high security dimple lock keys in the area? Read More »
I am proud to announce the launch of the Fortifier! Need to secure your shed, because it contains your pride & joy motorbike, or your garage side door to protect your prize restoration project car? Well, this extremely heavy duty complete locking system will do the job. It even makes the door itself stronger! Featuring
(Before you read this: If you don’t know what a “Password hash” is, read up on it. In essence, it is a way to hide the password forever, using a neat algorithm that ensures that “1”, “2”, or “password”, “Password” & “Password1” are all essentially random looking strings that give no clue what the original
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Are you worried about your bank only asking for 3 characters from your password to let you into your banking? There’s a good argument for a few tweaks there, but 3 characters is 26^3 to 1 (17576:1) against guessing (or 36^3 if alphanumeric {46656:1}) so works well in theory & practise. If someone sees what
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