When requesting a locksmith, often it will be in an emergency and you imagine all sorts of scenarios before the locksmith arrives on site. We can all agree the most important part of it all is that the locksmith who arrives is reliable and the service is to the best of his or her ability, which could lead you into believing a Limited company is sometimes a safer and more honest option than a sole trader. In Nottingham, this is certainly not the case. The locksmith industry in Nottingham is renowned for having some of the best sole trading Locksmiths in the country.

I’m Jake, I have been a proud self-employed owner of Your Secure Locksmiths for over 11 years, and I want to help you in choosing the correct self-employed Locksmith over a well-advertised small-medium size business, but why?

A good quality, well established tradesman with a few good reviews and recommendations will have the same quality and possibly much better skills than a small to medium sized well-advertised business. Businesses with 7-8 employees or more have a habit of changing staff very regularly, meaning often the quality of the employee doesn’t meet the justification for the inflated price tag plus VAT.

When you call a sole trader, you are usually speaking to the locksmith himself, instead of a phone operator who usually is inexperienced and has none or very little knowledge of the trade and what the job requires. This usually results in a lot of incorrect quoting. Small to medium businesses are often taught to drill locks when you are locked out to get you back in, because it inflates the bill with the extra added lock and often the employee hasn’t mastered the true skill and fine art of the trade this can take years.

Don’t be taken in by mass reviews, if a company has existed during the 1990s a few more reviews are to be expected but they tend to average out if you compare them to the amount of time a well-established self-employed tradesman has been around, but of course reviews are good and a decent self-employed locksmith will have them as well. Also, look out for behaviours like mass advertising on back of buses or mass fleets of vans. It’s all very presentable and looks the part, but remember you as the customer have to pay for it. While small business employees try to impress the boss, a good, reputable and well established self-employed locksmith in Nottingham tries above and beyond to impress you – the customer. In the locksmith industry in Nottingham our well-established self-employed do:

• get done right!
• we do return to correct faults if any occur.
• We do save you a lot of money with minimal overheads.
• we put our whole built up reputation on the line every time we attend a job and always want the maximum satisfaction and a returning customer!
• Turn around times are much faster by a mile

How to find your well established Self-employed tradesman?

1. Open the google search tab
2. Type in Locksmith Nottingham or keywords to that effect
3. Completely miss the sponsored ads at the top (they cannot be trusted as it’s a paid position and you will be charged for the privilege x10. They probably won’t have a local accent and will advertise an abnormally low rate to later con you into hundreds)
4. Scroll to the Local Map Listings, click ‘search more’ and the best self-employed tradesman will appear mixed in with the smaller businesses, ranging from positions 1-9 (the map listings is not a ranking listing)
5. Call three different companies or more until satisfied, panicking is normal but don’t let it cloud your judgement.

As mentioned, I have been looking after Nottingham’s locking problems for over 11 years, known as Your Secure Locksmiths. I have gained a lot of experience and an outstanding reputation within and around the city of Nottingham.

A lot of my work ranges from domestic households to businesses for emergency or non-emergency requirements such as lockouts, lock fitting or lock replacing. I also have a lot of experience unlocking cars, replacing glass and fitting Anti Snap Locks.