A3 Locksmith & Security

A3 Locksmith & Security 24-hour Independant Emergency locksmith for Automotive, Commercial and Domestic sectors. Locks changed/upgraded, windows boarded, CCTV, Alarms and so much more

Veteran owned security business, established in 2015, specialising in locksmith services for domestic, commercial, and automotive services.

02/09/2026

🔐🏺 GRANDCHILD: 1 — PORCELAIN CUPBOARD: 0 — MATT: CALLED IN TO CLEAN UP THE BLOODY MESS! 😂

Another cracking little job for Matt the Locksmith today, and this one came with a bit of a family backstory. 🤣

We were called out to an elderly couple who had unfortunately lost the key to their porcelain cupboard.

Now, losing a key is annoying enough…

But apparently, the grandchild had decided that simply losing the key wasn't quite enough entertainment for one day.

Nope.

They also managed to pull the bloody cupboard over, displacing the porcelain inside. 🤦‍♂️🏺😂

So let's recap:

🔑 Key lost
🚪 Cupboard locked
🏺 Porcelain displaced
👶 Grandchild apparently operating heavy machinery without a licence
👴👵 Two grandparents wondering what the hell had just happened
🔐 And me turning up thinking, "Right… which little bastard started this?" 😂

Thankfully, there was no need for smashing, drilling, or turning the cupboard into an expensive pile of kindling.

We carried out a non-destructive opening, carefully removed the existing lock, and then, because apparently I wasn't busy enough, hand-cut a brand-new key to suit the lock. 🔐✂️

Lock sorted.
The new key is working perfectly.
Cupboard secured.
Porcelain survived.

The grandchild, however, remains under investigation. 😂

I'm not saying they should be banned from visiting their grandparents…

…but perhaps, next time, they could be given something slightly safer to play with.

Like a cardboard box.🤣🤣

Another job sorted without damaging the cupboard and, more importantly, without adding "replace priceless family porcelain" to the invoice.

Because sometimes being a locksmith isn't just about picking locks…

Apparently, we're also the emergency response team for grandchild-induced furniture disasters. 😂🔐🏺

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📞 07958 206007
☎️ 01388 300571 | 01325 238160 | 01642 989360
🌐 www.a3locksmithandsecurity.co.uk

Matt – Lead Locksmith
A3 Locksmith & Security 🔐

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01/09/2026

🚪🔐 £3,000 TO REPLACE THE DOORS?! OR £100 TO FIX THE ACTUAL PROBLEM?! 🤯😂

Called out to an elderly customer who was struggling to secure her sliding patio door and hadn't locked it in over 3 months!!! 🤯

She'd previously been told by another company that the only option was to replace the doors at a cost of around £3,000. 😳💷

THREE. THOUSAND. POUNDS.

For a door that, as it turns out, wasn't actually fu**ed. 🤦‍♂️😂

Now, don't get me wrong, £3,000 might be a perfectly reasonable price if the entire door was hanging off the house, with the glass smashed and the mechanism mangled beyond repair.

But this one?

It just needed fu***ng fixing. 😂🔧

So rather than telling the customer to remortgage the house and start selling organs on eBay, we actually investigated the problem. 🤣

The door needed a full service, level and adjustment, including removing the entire door and repositioning the wheels underneath.

⏱️ Just over 60 minutes later...

The patio door was running smoothly, sitting correctly and securing properly again.

💷 Our total cost: £100.

That's £2,900 LESS than the replacement quote.

Let that sink in...

£3,000: "You need new doors."

£100: "We've fixed the bloody doors you've already got." 😂😂😂

That's a 96.666'% saving for the customer.

This is exactly why we always recommend getting a second opinion before agreeing to replace perfectly serviceable doors, locks, or mechanisms.

Sometimes, the answer isn't "rip it all out and start again.

Sometimes, the answer is simply:

Give me 60 minutes and let me have a look at the bloody thing." 🔧🤣

At A3 Locksmith & Security, we'll always look at repairing and adjusting where it's practical and safe to do so.

🔐 Repair it. Don't automatically replace it.

🚜 Bank Holiday Monday = Big Kid Mode ACTIVATED 😂Well, that's the bank holiday weekend nearly done, and today I've swappe...
31/08/2026

🚜 Bank Holiday Monday = Big Kid Mode ACTIVATED 😂

Well, that's the bank holiday weekend nearly done, and today I've swapped locks, tools, and customers asking me to "just have a quick look" for something far more important...

DIGGERS. BIG FU***NG DIGGERS. 😂🚜

Off to Diggerland Durham with the family today, because apparently being a grown adult means you can spend your Monday driving a massive yellow machine around and call it "family time". 🤣

And before anyone asks...

NO, I'M NOT TAKING LOCKSMITH CALLS TODAY.
I'm busy living my best life and pretending I'm 8 years old again. 😂

The family might be enjoying the rides, but let's be honest... I'm the one who's properly excited about the bloody diggers! 🤣

It's been a cracking Bank Holiday weekend, but sadly reality returns tomorrow.

🔐 A3 Locksmith & Security
🚨 Emergency Locksmith Covering the North East
📞 07958 206007 | 01388 300571
📞 01325 238160 | 01642 989360
🌐 www.a3locksmithandsecurity.co.uk

Back to the locks tomorrow.
Today I'm playing with big toys. 😎🚜

Have a cracking Bank Holiday Monday, everyone! 🍻

Matt
A3 Locksmith & Security

🚨 SUNDAY. BANK HOLIDAY. DAY OFF. ACTUALLY, MAKE THAT TWO DAYS OFF. 🚨😂🔐Today, Matt the Locksmith is officially OFF DUTY.N...
30/08/2026

🚨 SUNDAY. BANK HOLIDAY. DAY OFF. ACTUALLY, MAKE THAT TWO DAYS OFF. 🚨😂🔐

Today, Matt the Locksmith is officially OFF DUTY.

No doors to service, no locks to pick, no mechanisms to replace and, hopefully, no one ringing me to say, “I know it’s Sunday, but it’ll only take you five minutes...” 🤦‍♂️

Yeah, mate, and apparently I’m supposed to teleport there, fix your door for free, and be home before the bloody Yorkshire puddings go cold. 😂😂

And seeing as it’s a Bank Holiday weekend, I’ve decided I’m not interested in being disturbed tomorrow either. 🤣

So, the tools are staying firmly in the van, the work trousers can have a break from smelling of dust and UPVC, and I’ll be spending my time eating a proper Sunday roast, enjoying some family time and generally doing sweet bu**er all for once. 🥩🥔🥕

Basically, unless your house is on fire, the door has fallen off completely, or you’ve locked yourself out wearing nothing but your underpants... please leave me the hell alone until Tuesday. 😂😂😂

Monday can look after itself. I’ll deal with the broken doors, dodgy locks, and people who have ignored that “funny noise” since 2017 on Tuesday. 🔐🤣

Have a cracking Bank Holiday weekend, enjoy the extra day off, eat far too much and raise a Yorkshire pudding in honour of those of us who have finally decided to ignore the bloody phone for a couple of days! 🍻😂

🔐🎢 BANK HOLIDAY: LOCKSMITH OFF DUTY! 🎢🔐For once, the drills are switched off, the locks can bloody well behave themselve...
29/08/2026

🔐🎢 BANK HOLIDAY: LOCKSMITH OFF DUTY! 🎢🔐

For once, the drills are switched off, the locks can bloody well behave themselves, and Matt the Locksmith is having a rare day out with the family! 😮😂

Today we’ve swapped faulty gearboxes, snapped locks and door adjustments for rollercoasters, rides, and trying not to lose the kid in the chaos at Lightwater Valley! 🎢😀

A proper chilled Bank Holiday with the family, enjoying the rides and pretending I don’t have a phone full of locksmith jobs waiting for me when reality comes knocking on Monday or Tuesday when I can be arsed! 🤦‍♂️📱😂

So if you’re also enjoying the Bank Holiday, have a cracking weekend! And if your door decides to be an absolute bastard while I’m trying to enjoy a rollercoaster… please try and give it a rest until I’m back! 🤣🔐

Matt the Locksmith, temporarily swapping locks for loop-the-loops! 🎢🔐

28/08/2026

🚪🔥 WHEN ONE LOCK DECIDES TO BE A PAIN IN THE ARSE... WE FIT ANOTHER ONE! LOL 🔥🔐

We were called out to this fire door because the top lock had developed a rather annoying habit of jamming in the locked position. It's not ideal when you're dealing with a fire door, and it's definitely not something you want to be standing there arguing with, especially when you need to get out. 🙄

The customer asked us if there was another locking option we could fit, so we got to work.

We installed a shiny new ERA deadlocking night latch to give them another secure and reliable locking option. 💪🔐

But we didn't just slap the new lock on and bu**er off. We also gave the existing top and bottom locks a good service, cleaning them out and lubing them back up, getting them working much more smoothly and, fingers crossed, stopping the top one from having another bloody jamming tantrum. 🤞😂

So now the door has:
✅ A new ERA deadlocking night latch
✅ Top and bottom locks serviced
✅ Smoother operation
✅ Less chance of someone standing there wondering why the bloody thing won't unlock while being cooked to a crisp.

And finally, a small apology for the video... you get a lovely close-up view right up my hairy nose! 😂🤦‍♂️ I can pick locks, service doors, and fit night latches, but clearly, I need to get it waxed and work on my bloody camera angles. 📹👃

Another door sorted, another lock given a stern talking to, and another customer left with a much better setup. 😎

🔐 A3 Locksmith and Security
For locks that work properly... and the ones that apparently need some encouragement.

27/08/2026

🚨 “We’ve had our patio doors serviced every year for 10 years by the same company that fit them…” 🚨

Those were the words that started today’s little adventure.

The customers then added, “They’ve gone bust now.”

After seeing their handiwork, I have to say… I’m genuinely amazed they lasted 10 bloody years. 😂

Apparently, this company’s annual patio door service consisted of turning up, looking at the hinges, and thinking:

“Right lets get the Allen keys and tighten the absolute living s**t out of everything.” 🔧💪

And tighten it they did.

So much so that the hinges have been overtightened to the point of failure. But did that stop our previous “professionals”? Of course not! When the hinges started struggling, the obvious next step was apparently to drill another bloody set of holes in the door.

And then another.

And another.

And another.

Honestly, I’ve seen fewer holes in a block of Swiss cheese. 🧀😂

I’m not entirely sure whether they were repairing the patio doors or trying to build a bloody Meccano set directly onto them. At one point I was half expecting to find a note saying “F**k it, that’ll do.”

But despite a decade of what can only be described as aggressive terrorism against patio doors, we managed to get the doors working again. 💪😂

However, we’ve been completely honest with the customers and strongly recommended they start planning for replacement patio doors. You can only undo so much damage when someone has spent 10 years treating a perfectly good door like a training dummy.

The important lesson here is:

👉 Just because you have your doors “serviced” every year doesn't necessarily mean they’re actually being serviced properly.

A proper service involves checking, adjusting and maintaining the door.

It does not involve tightening every hinge until it s**ts itself and drilling enough holes to let the daylight in. 🤦‍♂️😂

🔐 A3 Locksmith & Security
We fix doors, PROPERLY!

We don't repeatedly punch holes in them and hope the problem gets bored and f***s off.

26/08/2026

🔧 FULL MECHANISM REPLACEMENT & NEW HANDLES… because apparently moving house isn’t stressful enough without your bloody door deciding to have a full-scale meltdown as well! 😂

Back to help an old customer today, who has moved into a new house. New home, new keys, new adventures... and, naturally, a door mechanism that had clearly decided it couldn’t be arsed anymore. 🤣

The old mechanism was well and truly past its best. It had done its time, saw some s**t and was basically hanging on by sheer determination and bad engineering decisions. So, instead of messing around trying to polish a turd, we ripped the old mechanism out and fitted a full replacement, along with a fresh new set of handles. 💪🔐

Now, the door locks, unlocks, and generally behaves like a door should. I know, groundbreaking stuff. Someone should probably write this down. 😏

It's always good to see a returning customer, though I’m starting to think people move house purely to find new doors for me to swear at! 😂

So, if your door is stiff, difficult to lock, the handles are flopping around like they’ve completely given up on life, or the mechanism sounds like a bag of spanners being kicked down the bloody stairs, give us a shout before the whole thing finally says “f**k this” and leaves you locked in, locked out, or somewhere equally inconvenient! 🔧🚪😂

A3 Locksmith and Security
📞 07958 206007
☎️ 01388 300571
☎️ 01325 238160
☎️ 01642 989360

25/08/2026

When we say “no”, it’s usually because we’re trying to stop your door, turning into an expensive pile of firewood… 😂🔐

Today’s customer wanted a lock fitted into a door that’s only 34mm thick.

Now, could we have just hacked a massive chunk out of it, crossed our fingers, and said “that’ll probably be alright”? Absolutely. But that’s not how we work at A3 Locksmith and Security. We’re professionals, not a bunch of lock-fitting cowboys with a drill and a death wish. 🤠🔨

In fact, the customer was so keen on the idea that we had to show them our previous Facebook post about fitting locks into hollow/internal doors, explaining why it’s a bloody terrible idea when there’s hardly any solid material in the door to begin with! 😂

Once they saw the reasoning behind it, everything clicked.

So, instead of bodging a lock into a door that simply wasn’t suitable, we offered an alternative: lock-style American handles.

The customer had a look, liked the solution, and accepted.

BOOM. 💥 Problem solved. The door is still intact and can be secured to the degree the customer wanted.

Customer happy. Nobody has had to call a joiner to repair a massive hole because some idiot decided “it’ll probably be fine”.

Sometimes, the best locksmithing involves knowing when not to fit something. 😎

A3 Locksmith and Security
🔐 Proper advice. Proper solutions. Even when the answer isn't what you originally wanted to hear.

🚨 MONDAY MORNING FACEBOOK FACTS... WITH A SIDE OF “WHAT THE HELL?!” 🚨Right then, here’s a little Monday fact for you lov...
24/08/2026

🚨 MONDAY MORNING FACEBOOK FACTS... WITH A SIDE OF “WHAT THE HELL?!” 🚨

Right then, here’s a little Monday fact for you lovely lot... and honestly, it’s got me scratching my head harder than a dog with fleas. 🐕😂

Over the last 3 months, our posts have averaged OVER 1,500 VIEWS EACH! 🤯👏

Now that’s bloody brilliant... BUT here comes the slightly annoying part:

Only around 15% of those views are from people who actually follow our page! 😳

So basically, thousands of people are having a little nosey at what Matt the Locksmith is up to, watching me crawl around doors, argue with broken gearboxes and generally take the p**s out of whatever job I’ve landed on that day... but most of you haven’t actually hit the FOLLOW button! 😂

Come on people, don’t be a Facebook lurker hiding in the bushes! 🌳👀

🎯 HERE’S THE DEAL...

If we can get our posts up to 5,000 views, or even better, boost our followers to 5,000, then we’ll run a FREE LOCK UPGRADE GIVEAWAY for one or maybe even TWO lucky followers! 🔑🎉

Obviously, because I haven’t yet worked out how to teleport around the country without my van, you’ll need to live in or around the North East for us to come and sort it. 😂🚐

So if you enjoy our posts, the sarcasm, the slightly questionable language, and watching me battle doors that clearly woke up and chose violence...

👉 FOLLOW OUR PAGE
👉 LIKE & SHARE OUR POSTS
👉 TAG YOUR MATES WHO NEED A BLOODY LOCKSMITH

Let’s see how far we can push this! And who knows... you might end up with a shiny new lock upgrade for absolutely bu**er all! 😎🔐

Matt the Locksmith 🔑
A3 Locksmith & Security

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