Its been too long since Pentland Locksmiths - Livingston last posted, but this is basically down to the increase in work over the last 3 months in Livingston and West Lothian as a whole. It has also been a time to continue our new strategy and prepare for the future of locksmithing and to meet the new challenges that being a locksmith in Livingston, West Lothian can bring. The idea of a Locksmith is changing in the eyes of the customer who are now wanting a more varied service than just changing their door locks.
Challenges that lie ahead
To meet these new challenges and to move to a more technical service in West Lothian we are now adapting for the future. We have purchased a new van that's 3 times the internal space of our previous commercial vehicle. The new Citreon Relay medium wheelbase affords us the extra space to allow us to offer services we couldn't do in the past. Van Deadlocks
One of the new services we are able to offer as a Locksmith Service in Livingston, West Lothian is the fitting of Van Deadlocks. Van security is becoming more important because thieves are buying up more and more tools to force entry on commercial vehicles. Tools are becoming more readily available on the internet and it has become a major worry for the Police and Insurance companies. Most tradesman who use power tools cannot remove their tools every night, so need to leave them in their van and vulnerable to attack.Pentland Locksmiths only fits High Security Deadlocks and Cylinders that will prevent anyone from forcing entry. Fitting High Security deadlocks will certainly make any thief think twice about targetting your van.
So if you are serious about protecting your tools then click the (picture left) and view our details.
Mobile Key Cutting
Mobile key is a service that we have been able to offer our customers in Livingston, West Lothian EH54 for some time, but the small van restricted our business to only cutting keys for the locks we fit. We can now supply and cut hundreds of different key variants that most domestic customers will already use on a daily basis. The extra space allows Pentland Locksmiths - Livingston, West Lothian to expand into a more Technical key cutting service that NO other locksmith service offer at the moment.
Other services
Pentland Locksmiths Services are also developing new external security products and services that will be available next month.
We will be creating a new page on our website: http://www.pentlandlocksmiths.com/ that will give full details and photos of the new external security porducts will be able to offer.
What the future will bring?
Most Locksmith Businesses will face a difficult time over the next couple of years with more and more individuals spending their hard earned cash or redundancy to get into what already is an overcrowded industry. Locksmiths starting up in West Lothian are becoming more frequent and will continue to rise in whats an already saturated market. Domestic lock changes and door repairs will always be there by the plenty, but as the locksmiths increase the number of jobs will start to spread thin amongst the locksmiths chasing this type of work. Most new starts will fall on their sword and lose their money and even some long established locksmiths will go out of business. Only the Locksmith who invest and diversify will possibly remain doing a different typ of security work that is not currently available.
This may sound as doom and gloom, but its a sad reality of the way this industry is heading. Until the flood gates of New Start locksmiths are curbed then this will continue until there are so many locksmiths chasing the few basic lock changes, there will not be enough work to support a locksmith business.
This is why we are not relying on this type of work and choosing to move down a different path. We will continue to offer a domestic lock change service to our Domestic and Commercial customers in Livingston, West Lothian, but we only do this to stop National Contractors from ripping off customers with their inflated prices.
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