Macclesfield · SK10, SK11 · Cheshire East
Macclesfield locksmith. Town below, hills above.
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- 35-50 min from Salford
- From £25
- Period lock work
- Outbuildings and gates
- £1m public liability
Macclesfield is 20 miles from us and we will not pretend otherwise: 35 to 50 minutes, and longer if you are up towards Rainow with snow on the road. For booked work that is fine. For a 2am lockout, ring somebody in SK11 first and use us if they cannot come.
SK10 and SK11: the town, Hurdsfield, Tytherington, Broken Cross, Bollington, Prestbury, Sutton, Langley, Gawsworth and out towards Rainow.
The silk-town terraces
Macclesfield's centre is dense Victorian terrace, built for the silk mills, with the original doors still on a lot of them. Narrow stiles, solid timber, and lever mortice locks that have been in the door longer than anyone alive has been in the house.
These almost never need replacing. A seized lever mortice is a hundred years of dust and dried oil, not a broken lock, and a strip and service is £40-70 against £140 to replace it with something worse. If you have one key and want a spare, we cut to the lock rather than copying the key, because no kiosk can read a lever profile.
Up the hill is a different job
Out towards Rainow, Langley, Sutton and the Peak edge, the lock problems change completely:
Outbuildings
Stables, stores, workshops and barns, usually on a padlock and hasp that rusted through three winters ago. £45-90.
Gates
Field gates and drive gates on chains. Closed shackle padlocks, because open shackle is nine seconds with croppers.
Weather
Exposed doors on the hill take weather no town door sees. Locks seize faster and need servicing more often.
No neighbours
An isolated property is a different security question. Worth doing properly rather than cheaply.
Tell us on the phone if you are up the hill and what the access is like. It changes what we bring and how long we take, and in winter it changes both a lot.
What it costs
| Job | Price |
|---|---|
| Period lever mortice, strip and service | £40-70 |
| Key cut to an old lever lock | £25-55 |
| BS3621 5-lever mortice, fitted | £85-140 |
| Euro cylinder repair or replacement | £35-60 |
| Closed shackle padlock and hasp | £45-90 |
| Multipoint gearbox replacement | £60-120 |
| Lockout, non-destructive | £65-110 |
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Questions people actually ask
Can you service an old mortice lock rather than replace it?
Almost always, and in Macclesfield's silk-town terraces that is usually the right answer. A lever mortice that has stopped turning is normally a century of dust and dried oil rather than a broken mechanism. Stripping, cleaning and re-oiling it costs £40 to £70 and gives you back a lock that was made to a standard modern replacements do not reach. Replacing it costs £85 to £140 and often gets you something worse in a door that was cut for the original. We only replace when the lock body is cracked or your insurer specifically requires BS3621.
I've got one key for an old lock and want a spare. Can a shop copy it?
No, and it is worth knowing before you waste a trip. Lever mortice locks predate standard key profiles, so a kiosk cannot read or cut one. It has to be cut to the lock. If you still have a working key we can copy it against the lock for £25 to £55. If you have no key at all we take the lock off, read the levers and cut to the mechanism, which takes longer but saves a hundred-year-old lock.
How long to reach Rainow or Langley up the hill?
35 to 50 minutes to Macclesfield town, and longer up the hill, considerably longer in bad weather. Snow on the Rainow roads makes it a genuinely different journey and we will tell you that rather than guess. Tell us on the phone where you actually are and what the access is like, because a farm track in February and a street in the town centre are not the same drive and we would rather plan for it than surprise you.
What lock should an isolated property up the hill have?
A better one than the equivalent house in town, because the calculation is different. In a terrace, a break-in has to be quick and quiet with neighbours twenty feet away. On an isolated property nobody is watching and nobody hears, so time is not on your side in the same way. That argues for BS3621 mortice deadlocks on external doors, TS007 3-star cylinders where you have euros, and closed shackle padlocks on outbuildings rather than the open shackle ones that come free with the hasp. It is not much more money and it is a genuinely different threat.