There’s about 2″ of snow out there at the moment, but if you are standing outside your house freezing, give us a ring! We have a 4×4 capability, and can get you in just like normal (though we might be a little slower driving out to you, what with the ice)
Today’s jobs were again rather poor. A few warrants with nothing for me to do, except a single euro cylinder that fell inside of 5 seconds (and which I thought briefly had gone instantly) and giving some CCTV and general security advice to a business that had been hit for metal recently. Metal theft is [...]
Considering the flack I personally have been getting, and the randomly picked half-truths being thrown around by a few formerly dis-interested parties about the National Occupational Standards for Locksmithing, I thought I might do a little rumour control. Today’s meeting was the culmination of 2 years of meetings, the first with the actual results of [...]
Just been working all day in Coventry. Currently freezing, having spent most of the day outdoors, and even 5 layers doesn’t keep you warm forever. And a hi-vis probably shouldn’t count as a layer either, being made of a material so light Lady GaGa would shy away from wearing it alone. Does the job of [...]
Took delivery today of my van, crash repaired and freshly washed. Swapping over and re-arranging all the various kits, tools and miscellany took about an hour, as I’ve had a fairly strict sort-out of stock and tools. The state of the back of the van is a thing of legend. Like a TARDIS, full of [...]
(Cross-posted to www.SheSaidHeSaid.com) To the man in Bromyard who called a few weeks ago about getting security grilles fitted, apologies. I took your name & number down, and a few days went by, and the day of our appointment came & went, and can I find the note I took? Sadly, I think my baby [...]
I’ve spent the last two or three days really practising impressioning. Impressioning is more of an art than a science really, to me, at this stage. It is something with many variables that interact, and although there are impressioning experts out there who do this as their main way of opening locks, in the main [...]
Euro lock snapping, know for years on the continent as ‘The Bulgarian method’, is a very fast way of gaining entry to a basic door cylinder, even in a good door. UK criminals are now well aware of the method, and there is little that can be done without spending money. However, spend wisely. And [...]
In less than a week I am off on a busman’s holiday to the home of sport lockpicking, to compete, as I have for the last 5 years, in the defacto world championship for lock picking, at Sneek, in The Netherlands. While the thought of a single day of the most hardcore lock nerds & [...]
In the previous post I talked about technology making life easier. However, I do most of my blogging whilst out and about, via my Blackberry. And Blackberry have just recovered from a three day outage, where for the first 24 hours even the web was inaccessible, and after that things were rather intermittent. Being a [...]
