Paul Easton Locksmiths and garage door services.
Chepstow Castle  
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Paul Easton Locksmiths and Garage door services
 

We guarantee we are one hundred per cent a locally based business in the town of Chepstow

How to choose your locksmith.
Some simple rules that could save you a lot of money

Looking for a locksmith near me Chepstow Paul Easton Locksmiths
When you ring for a Locksmith depending on the advert you choose its possible you will get Local or call centre or an out of area number.
If you suspect that you are talking to a call centre rather than a locksmith or a locksmith business, my advice is to hang up and have another try at locating a local independent locksmith.
If the number starts with the correct dialing code but has not got a 62 for the main number you are dealing with a call centre or out of area Locksmith service, typically these numbers will be 01291 followed by 330
If you ring a national call centre you have no control over who they send you are going to pay more often quite a lot more. By following a few simple checks you will be able to have the job done by a local locksmith fully qualified and at a reasonable cost.
We guarantee all our work and parts fully for 12 months.
Almost all the so called Locksmiths employed by call centres are used because they are not qualified and experienced enough to work as independent locksmiths remember you are paying by the hour for the first hours work then every 15 minutes after without experience and knowledge these so called locksmiths will routinely be extremely slow at working.
When you phone us you talk to a local locksmith not a telephone operator.
Ask if you will be charged if a return trip is required. 
Material charges are often vastly inflated on the final invoice you pay often by as much as three to four times the retail cost.
Almost none of the national companies will have fully stocked vans meaning that often you pay for two visits.
Paul Easton Locksmiths guarantee that on the rare occasion we do not have the replacement parts you do not pay for a second visit.
Almost all out of town numbers you will be paying twice once to the franchise holder and once to the franchise call centres are the same you pay for the call centre and the locksmith who attends all this is disguised in your final bill as one payment.
All call centres will add vat at 20% to the final bill on top of your quote check this with out of town numbers as well almost all will add this to your final bill.
 
Paul Easton Locksmiths are not vat registered therefore what we quote is what you pay.
All our quotes are fixed and even should we have to return again to complete work you do not pay for a return journey.

Below is a part of a recent article we published on using a local business.
You can read the full article here and other articles on the benefits of using and choosing a local company like Paul Easton Locksmiths.

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Here’s an insight into the risks of hiring locksmiths from outside your local area. I recently went to a job where I needed to change a woman's lock. During my visit, she mentioned that she had a locksmith company come out a few weeks prior.


As we talked, she revealed that the locksmith claimed he needed to change the clutch on the door lock. Let me clarify: there is no such thing as a clutch on a door lock; a clutch belongs in a car, not in your home.


What he was essentially doing was adding items to the invoice that the customer couldn't verify, leaving her confused about what he was referring to.


In essence, your bill is skyrocketing for no legitimate reason other than to inflate his invoice.


These situations occur weekly, leaving customers to rely on the integrity of those performing the work. Unfortunately, many do not uphold this trust, and there's a very good reason for that: most are subcontracted to national companies on a commission basis.


This means that the more they charge you, the more they earn after the call center takes its cut. In simple terms, you're effectively paying twice for the same job.