How Much Do Emergency Locksmiths Charge?
Locked out of your business, home or car? Here is how emergency locksmiths can help and how much you’re likely to pay.
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It may be a small thing, but it causes a huge interruption. You go to open your car door and realise you’ve locked your key inside. Or you’re about to open the door of your worksite or business premises and realise the key is nowhere to be seen. Or you try to unlock your own front door after a long day and the key snaps off in the lock. In these situations, you need an emergency locksmith as soon as possible. But with the day’s disruption already weighing heavy on your mind, you wonder ‘how much do emergency locksmiths charge?’
It’s a reasonable concern. While regaining access to the premises is important, nobody wants a simple mistake or a stroke of bad luck to blow their weekly budget out. As with all services, the price is variable. But Express Locksmiths can give you an idea of what sort of fees to expect.
Express Locksmith is a 24/7 emergency locksmithing service on the Gold Coast, serving locations from the northern suburbs like Ormeau all the way to Tweed Heads across the NSW border. In this blog, we discuss the role of an emergency locksmith, the services one provides and the important question ‘how much do emergency locksmiths charge?’
What are emergency locksmiths?
A locksmith is a person who makes and repairs locks and supplies keys. From constructing them to installing them on doors to repairing them when things go wrong, locksmiths are professionals that possess unparalleled knowledge in all things locks and keys. Locksmiths typically undertake four-year apprenticeships in order to gain their skills and invest a lot of time into their craft.
Emergency locksmiths provide the same services as any other locksmith with the additional benefit of being on call, usually 24 hours a day, for urgent situations. Emergency locksmiths are the people you call in the case of lockouts, lost keys, unexpected breakages and other mishaps, even if it’s well outside of business hours.
Services emergency locksmiths provide
The top services and duties of an emergency locksmith include:
Emergency lockouts
Emergency locksmiths can help you regain access to your home, car or workplace any time of the day or night by opening the lock without a key (without damaging the mechanism inside).
Lock repair and replacement
They can maintain the security of a premise by repairing or replacing damaged locks.
Key cutting
They can duplicate existing keys or cut new ones from scratch, sometimes on-site.
Broken key extraction
They can remove a key that’s stuck in a lock without damaging the lock.
Rekey
They can protect the security of your property by changing the configuration of your locks so that old keys no longer work.
Automotive locksmith services
Locking your keys in your car is an easy mistake to make. Luckily emergency locksmiths can assist with lockouts, key extractions and the replacement of keys.
Emergency locksmith prices
Obviously they have special skills, but how much do emergency locksmiths charge and how does Express Locksmith Gold Coast do better?
Just like any other professional, an emergency locksmiths fee depends on everything from the particular service required, to the locksmith’s level of experience, to the time of day. Many locksmiths charge a call-out fee in addition to hourly rates of emergency locksmiths that can vary anywhere up to $200 per hour, depending on the same factors.
Call-outs after business hours and additional parts for replacements and upgrades can push the price up even further. After 9pm, $220 is a pretty standard call-out rate for emergency locksmiths. In a city like the Gold Coast, the difference between potential costs is a vast one, and it’s vital to get a quote from your emergency locksmith, but to give you an idea of our pricing:
Choose Express Locksmith’s emergency locksmith services
Express Locksmith’s emergency locksmiths on the Gold Coast can help you regain access fast, with quality low-cost solutions to all your lock-related problems. A family-owned and operated business, we can get to you faster because we’re locals and provide you with a free quote so you know exactly what it will cost (no surprises in store).
How much do our emergency locksmiths charge? The best price on the market. We’ll beat any written quote and offer 10% senior discounts on labour. You’ll get the highest quality workmanship for the price – our 900+ five-star Google reviews will attest to that – and our jobs are fully insured for $10 million.
No matter where you’re locked out, we can be anywhere on the Gold Coast usually within a 20-minute response time. This includes northern suburbs like Ormeau and Coomera and southern ones like Burleigh Heads and Coolangatta. Plus we can cross the border into Tweed!
To find out more about how much emergency locksmiths charge, contact the Express Locksmith team for a free quote.
