Call George at Safe and Sound locksmiths and we will send one of our locals out to your home within 45 minutes for a lock-out.
Getting locked out from your home and calling a locksmith after hours in North Shore is not going to be a cheap affair.If you are lucky enough to find a local locksmith from close to the area you are calling from you may be able to get it cheaper than from a locksmith not in the North Shore area. After hours call out fees also depend on what time you are requesting the service and offcourse will differ from company to company. Companies who are advertising that they are the cheapest but do not quote a approximate price on the web are after people calling them up trying to make the sale over the phone. Make sure you get a licenced locksmith with a licence number quoted on the internet site where you found the ad. It’s a wonder how locksmiths are complaining about receiving calls at late hours of the night or early hours in the morning with people asking how much is the call and fee is going to cost for the lockout?.The first thing to ask the locksmith over the phone is how much would the call cost in total, say you called at 11pm locked out of your front door. The locksmith or operator may ask you what type of lock is it, locks which are not standard will need to be in most cases drilled out unless you are dealing with the authorised service agent for that particular lock who has specials tools to pick their brands only. These specialists will be very hard to find at night, so you may have to settle for a general locksmith. If you have a standard inline pin tumbler system the quote could be around $150, then ask him how much do you need to pay if the lock can’t be picked because you will still have to pay his fee for attending the call. Now you both know where you stand , if the lock can’t be picked the locksmith will give you a quote on site and it is then up to the customer to say go ahead or not in drilling the lock out and replacing. By the way most locksmiths will be able to pick a standard in line cylinder within about 3 minutes on a front door so if they try to tell you it needs drilling out which will cost you alot more, say to them well if thats the case I may need to call another locksmith to get another opinion. You don’t want an after hours lock-out to suddenly go throught the roof on cost.
