Emergency lockouts, lock repairs, lock changes and uPVC repairs across Faversham, Ospringe and the surrounding villages, available 24 hours a day.
Castle Locksmiths provides a complete locksmith service across Faversham and the surrounding villages, covering emergency lockouts, lock repairs, lock changes, security upgrades and uPVC door and window repairs. Based in Canterbury, a short drive along the A2, we serve homeowners, landlords and businesses throughout the Faversham area with genuinely fast response times.
When you call, you speak directly to the locksmith who will attend, not a call centre. That means an accurate arrival time and the full price agreed before we set out, including whether any call out fee applies, with no hidden charges at the end.
Faversham’s housing calls for a broader range of experience than most towns: medieval and Tudor buildings around Abbey Street and the market place, Victorian terraces, post-war estates and modern developments on the edges of town. We work across all of them, and our vans carry a wide stock of locks and parts, so most jobs are completed in a single visit.
If you are locked out, your keys are missing, or your property will not secure, our emergency locksmith service covers Faversham 24 hours a day, every day of the year, including weekends and bank holidays.
You will speak to the locksmith directly when you call and receive an honest arrival time straight away.
Our 24 hour emergency service in Faversham covers:
Being locked out is stressful enough without waiting hours for a national firm to send someone from the other side of the county. We’re local, so the response really is rapid, and the price is agreed before we set out.
We work with every kind of property owner across the Faversham area. Our regular customers include:From the new estates to the old villages, we help every kind of property owner across the Ashford area.
We regularly support:
Faversham has some of the oldest housing stock in Kent, and older doors bring their own lock problems: worn mortice mechanisms, rim locks that have loosened over decades, and timber doors that swell and shift with the seasons so the lock no longer lines up. We repair the full range found across the town, from traditional locks on period properties to euro cylinders, multi point mechanisms and window locks on modern doors.
We take particular care with older doors, where the aim is to restore the lock without unnecessary alteration to the door itself. Wherever a repair will do the job properly, that is what we recommend.
More about lock repairsWhether you have just moved in, changed tenants, or lost track of who holds keys, a lock change is the only way to be certain who can enter your property. We supply and fit locks from established brands, including British Standard mortice locks that meet home insurance requirements and anti-snap euro cylinders for uPVC and composite doors, which protect against the most common method of forced entry on modern homes.
For period properties, we advise on upgrades that improve security while remaining sympathetic to the door and the building, there is almost always a way to meet modern standards without spoiling an old door, and we will talk you through the options plainly.
More about lock changesMisted double glazing, dropped doors, stiff handles and worn hinges are all repairable without replacing the window or door. We replace failed sealed units while your frames stay in place, realign uPVC doors that have dropped, and repair or replace the handles, hinges and multi point locking mechanisms that keep modern doors and windows secure.
Insulation, security and clear glass are restored at a fraction of the cost of replacement units.
More about glazing repairsIf your keys are locked inside your car, in the town centre car parks, at the station or on your own driveway, our vehicle lockout service can open the vehicle quickly and without damage, anywhere in the Faversham area.
To be clear about what this service includes: we provide vehicle entry only. We do not cut, clone or programme car keys, so if your keys are lost rather than locked inside, you will need an auto key specialist or your main dealer, and we will tell you this on the phone rather than charge for a visit that cannot solve the problem. If you can see your keys inside the vehicle, we can help.
More about car lockoutsEmergency response across Faversham and the surrounding villages at any hour, with the price agreed before we set out.
When you search for a locksmith in Faversham, here is what makes us worth the call:
You deal with the locksmith directly. No call centres and no subcontracting, the person who answers the phone is the person who arrives.
Experience with period properties. Faversham’s older buildings need a locksmith who respects them, and sympathetic work on old doors and locks is a regular part of our week.
Local and quick to reach you. Based in Canterbury, just along the A2, so response times to Faversham are genuinely fast.
Fully vetted. DBS checked, trained and insured, with documentation available on request.
Clear, agreed pricing. The full price is confirmed before we travel and honoured on completion, and where a repair is the right answer, that is what we quote.
Much of our work comes through recommendation, and in a town the size of Faversham, that reputation matters.
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Emergency callouts and planned work across Faversham and the villages, with every price agreed before we travel.
We cover Faversham and the surrounding villages, including Ospringe and Davington on the edge of town, Oare by the creek, Boughton and Selling to the south east, and out to Teynham along the A2. Emergency response times remain fast across the whole area, and for anything urgent we will give you an honest arrival time the moment you call.
We work with homeowners, landlords and businesses throughout the Faversham area. If your village is not listed here, call and ask, you will get a straight answer, and if we cannot reach you quickly, we will tell you so rather than keep you waiting.
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Quickly, because we are genuinely close by: Castle Locksmiths is based in Canterbury, a short drive along the A2, so emergency callouts to Faversham, lockouts, snapped keys and doors that will not secure, are reached fast at any hour. You speak directly to the attending locksmith when you call, so the arrival time you are given is accurate.
Our vans carry a wide stock of locks and parts, which means most jobs are completed on the first visit with no return appointment needed.
The whole Faversham area: the town centre, Ospringe and Davington on the edge of town, Oare by the creek, Boughton and Selling to the south east, and out to Teynham along the A2. Emergency response times remain fast across all of these.
If your village is not mentioned, call and ask. You will get a clear answer either way, and if we cannot reach you quickly enough for an emergency, we will tell you honestly rather than leave you waiting.
Yes, and it is regular work for us in a town with as much historic housing as Faversham. Old doors deserve careful handling: we repair traditional mortice and rim locks wherever possible, and when a lock does need replacing or upgrading, we choose hardware and methods that are sympathetic to the door and the building, avoiding unnecessary alteration to original fabric.
Security and heritage are not in conflict, there is almost always a way to bring an old door up to modern security standards without spoiling it, and we will explain the options clearly before any work starts. If your property is listed, we recommend checking any consent requirements that may apply to your building before alterations are made, and we are happy to work within them.
Yes, and it is one of the most common problems in Faversham's older housing. Timber doors absorb moisture and swell in the wetter months, then shrink again in summer, and over the years this movement pulls the lock and its keep out of alignment, so the door sticks, the key fights you, and eventually the lock will not engage at all.
The remedy usually involves adjusting the keep, easing the door where it binds, and servicing the lock itself, careful work that resolves the problem without unnecessary alteration to the door. Forcing a misaligned lock day after day is what wears it out, so it is worth addressing while it is a stiff door rather than waiting until it becomes a broken lock.
All pricing is agreed before we travel. When you call, describe the job and you will be given the full cost over the phone, including whether any call out fee applies, so there is nothing unexpected when the work is complete. The price agreed on the phone is the price you pay.
Costs vary with the job and the time of day, but the approach does not: everything is confirmed up front, and where a repair will solve the problem at lower cost than a replacement, the repair is what we will recommend.
Yes. Book ahead with your completion date and we will arrange the visit for the day you collect the keys. Previous owners, their family, tradespeople and agents may all still hold working copies, and changing the locks on moving day is the only way to be certain that no unknown keyholder can enter your new home.
A lock or cylinder change is quicker and less expensive than most people expect, and while we are there we will happily look over the property's other locks and tell you honestly whether anything needs attention, including whether your locks meet your home insurance requirements.
Yes. Most home insurance policies require external door locks to meet British Standard BS3621 or an equivalent, shown by the kitemark on the lock faceplate, and in a town with housing as old as Faversham's, a great many doors still carry locks fitted long before the standard existed. The gap often only comes to light during a claim.
We can inspect your locks, tell you plainly whether they comply, and fit insurance-approved mortice locks and anti-snap euro cylinders where they do not, and on period doors this is done sympathetically, meeting the standard without unnecessary alteration to the door.
Yes. Our emergency locksmith service covers Faversham and the surrounding villages 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including weekends and bank holidays. Whatever the hour, you speak directly to the locksmith, receive an accurate arrival time, and have the full price agreed before we set out.
For planned work such as lock changes, security upgrades and glazing repairs, we offer appointments at times that suit you, including evenings and weekends where helpful.
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