LockFit Inverness

13/06/2026

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It has been 10,217 days since Scotland last played a World Cup match.

France ’98.

Craig Brown was manager. Jim Leighton was in goal. John Collins had scored from the spot against Brazil. Craig Burley had seen red against Morocco.

Since then…

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland got its Parliament back. We built the Falkirk Wheel, the Kelpies, the Hydro and the Queensferry Crossing while waiting for this fixture.

📱 Google didn’t exist. It was founded three months AFTER our last World Cup game. Instagram was 12 years away.

🍺 A pint was about £1.80. Petrol was 60p a litre. We’ll let you sit with that one.

🎸 Oasis have split up AND got back together. Lewis Capaldi was one year old. Titanic was still in the cinema.

🗳️ Seven Prime Ministers. Five American Presidents. Seven World Cups watched through our fingers, supporting whoever was playing England.

An entire generation of Scots has grown up, left school, got married and had children of their own without ever seeing Scotland at a World Cup.

Anyone under the age of 28 has never been alive for a Scotland World Cup game.

That ends tonight. 2am.

We are Scotland. We are BACK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚽

13/06/2026

Emergency call out to a holiday let in the centre of Inverness as the back door would not open.

With guests arriving late afternoon, the owner was keen to have it sorted before they checked in.

Diagnosed a faulty cylinder which had jammed up in the lock mechanism so that was removed without any damage and a new thumbturn cylinder fitted.

Job completed and turned around within 2 hours of the initial call.

12/06/2026

A few jobs carried out for a customer in Inverness who's just moved into their new house and not only wanted to upgrade their security but also had a couple of issues left by the previous owner.

Front and back doors and a pair of French doors all upgraded to APECS 3* thumbturn locks which we had keyed alike at the customers request so that one key does the lot. They also received 5 new security keys with the peace of mind that they can't be duplicated locally if one fell into the wrong hands

Unfortunately they'd inherited a failed front door mechanism which required the gearbox replacing.

Finally, a broken key was extracted from the garage door as well.

11/06/2026

Another busy busy day servicing the local community and beyond.

** Morning eviction attended in Inverness with Sheriff Officers. Ended up having to gain entry and change both front and back door locks and the new keys passed onto a local Estate Agency.

** Horizontal sashlock replaced at a property just outside Evanton.

** Minor repairs and servicing of a uPVC mechanism for a customer who'd just moved into their new home in Alness.

** Faulty uPVC gearbox replaced for a customer in Culloden.

** Full multipoint mechanism and APECS 3 star cylinder fitted for a couple in Inverness who'd just moved in and had a broken mechanism and faulty cylinder.

** Broken ERA Vectis gearbox removed and upgraded to a euro profile system with new silver handles and thumbturn cylinder for a repeat customer in Inverness.

05/06/2026

Another milestone reached as LockFit Inverness recently received its 150th 5 star Google review.

I'd like to say a massive thank you to all my customers who have taken the time to leave a review and for all the positive feedback.

I must be doing something right 😄😄.

Next stop....200!

02/06/2026

Late night call out to Enterprise Car Hire after the member of staff on duty got locked IN the building.

After locking the door to customers at closing time their key snapped in the lock. 🙈

We were on site within 20 minutes of the call, broken key removed and the very relieved staff member was able to go home and not face the prospect of spending the night in the office!

01/06/2026

Sometimes finding parts isn't as straightforward as it seems.

When we went to do what was initially a simple lock change as the new owners didnt have a key for their sliding door, it soon turned into a bit more 😄.

It turned out the gearbox mechanism on the aluminium sliding door had broken as well. With the door itself being about 40 years old it was never going to be easy to find the right replacement.

After a good few hours trawling the internet it became clear the part was unavailable in the UK. We did, however, manage to track one down....in Belgium!!

We finally managed to get the new part fitted today so the door can now be locked and secured. Hopefully the new gearbox will last as long as the last one!!

29/05/2026

Helping out an elderly customer in Inverness who'd shut their bedroom door to go for a shower then couldn't get back in again!

Luckily we were nearby when they called so a quick diversion to get the door open within 10 minutes of the original phone call.

Broken door latch replaced along with a new set of handles as one had broken off.

23/05/2026

Saturday run out to Cromarty to fit a new multipoint locking mechanism at an Airbnb after the old one had blown out, leaving the property insecure.

No amount of tape was fixing it I'm afraid...😄

19/05/2026

When one door opens, there's sometimes an added surprise.

That was the scenario today when we were called to gain entry to a property in Inverness.

After getting the mortice lock open on the front door you think "job done". So when the door opened and we were greeted with an internal door with another mortice lock which was also locked, you begin to think someone is having a laugh at your expense 😂.

But we get the job done. Both locks opened with no damage to the doors, new locks fitted and keys issued.

It's what we do.