Obvious, really, but if you decide to try drilling your own lock, for whatever reason, wear eye protection! Hitting the hardened pins designed to protect your lock from a drill attack is very likely to shatter the drill bit, and generally the energy goes into the bit as velocity. Losing an eye for the sake

There’s something interesting I’ve noticed about houses where warrants come up. Now, this is a weak hypothesis, but it seems that there are more warrants on north facing houses than south facing houses. I’m going to have to start tracking this, and see if it holds up to scrutiny.

There is so much I can’t write about on here that is truly fascinating. Well, fascinating to me, at least. However, it is important to me, and to my clients, that their information doesn’t get out onto the internet. While it is unlikely that anyone would misuse anything put up on this blog with any

Some days, the door will make you feel like a beginner again. Trust me on that – I’ve been a full time professional locksmith for over 8 years now, and it still happens on, thankfully rarer and rarer, occasion. Yesterday, I went out to complete a job. I was fitting a 3R35 Chubb to a

An interesting tweet I saw earlier today lead me to this article on another locksmith’s blog. The Uk’s oldest door is in Westminster Abbey, and dates from an incredible 1050AD! They’ve put an newer padlock on it, though. Looks like a Squire…