The locksmith Barnstaple industry is a very popular start-up industry and is on the increase year by year. We are seeing new independent locksmiths and locksmith companies start trading roughly every single week, all over the country, some are well trained through established, professional training centres but regrettably some of these locksmiths are not trained at all!
The locksmith industry of one of the few industries where no
official training or regulation is required to set up and start trading. There
is no official accreditation to get and no mandatory training required, this
means that anybody can watch a few youtube 'how to' videos and claim to be a qualified
locksmith and there really is no foolproof way to check whether a locksmith is
a qualified of not before you hire them and many people and businesses have
fallen foul of untrained, un-qualified locksmiths who have gone into their home
or business and ended up causing more damage than the burglar or vandal.
Many professional locksmiths are now expanding their businesses
to cover a whole range of other security related services. The reasoning behind
this, one locksmith told us, is that a potential domestic or commercial
customer is going to put more faith into a larger security business that covers
locksmithing as just one of the specialities rather than a locksmith who simply
claims to open locked doors.
Over the last couple of years we have seen more and more
locksmiths offering a wider range of security services including burglar alarm
fitting and maintenance, CCTV installation and maintenance and even more specialist
services such as Door entry systems and advanced building access control
systems.
Burglar alarms have become very widespread during the last
20 years or so, while before this a burglar alarm was a extravagance only
afforded by the rich and famous. These days we basically have more items worth pilfering,
small luxury items such as tablets, mobile phones, laptop computers can all
easily be picked up and carried off even by the most amateur of thieves.
Almost every new build comes with a burglar alarm as
standard but if it isn't maintained and serviced on a regular basis it could
let you down when it's needed. Burglar alarms need servicing, batteries need
replacing, bells and sirens need testing. Even a well maintained alarm won't
last for ever and as new and better models come onto the market people want to
upgrade too, making burglar alarm fitting and maintenance a very lucrative add-on
for a skilled locksmith.
Falling into a similar category to burglar alarms are CCTV
and home security installations. CCTV for domestic and personal use has only
become more popular in the last 5 or 10 years. This new trend of installing
home surveillance equipment can be attributed mainly to the fall in price of
the technology itself as well as the unfortunate rise in crime in many suburban
areas. People also worry about leaving their homes empty for long periods when
they go on holiday so they install the latest remote accessible systems so they
can take a peek at the homes and belonging from anyway in the world simply by
using their smartphone. This is the reason that CCTV installation and maintenance
has become popular with professional locksmiths.
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