The Locksmith Holiday is the perfect chance to combine a training course in locksmithing skills, hands on one to one practice and a holiday with the family or without. The choice is yours. 

 

You will arrive at Trethiggey Holiday Park in Quintrell Downs over the weekend. Many arrive on the Friday or Saturday, then start the training on the Monday from 9.30am until 3.30pm with lunch in between. It's a self catering course and holiday but you will find all the appliances and accessories you need in your static holiday rental. We have a local shop juts 5 minutes walk or 1 minutes drive from the holiday park with 3 Cornish pubs at the end of the road and an amazing breakfast spot next door. You will be only a few miles from the coast and Town centre. 

 

The course is hands on with some theory but you will be fitting, removing locks, undertaking a full UPVC and multi point locks and hardware course which involves removal, replacement of parts, dealing with failed parts, deadlocked doors to man made failures. You will be undertaking a full picking curse starting with the basics all the way to hand picking 3 star rated dimple locks without using decoder picks but we will then allow you to learn about them and use the decoder picks once you can pick them by hand. 

 

You will be undertaking a residential locksmith training course dealing with all locks, doors, windows found in the residential premisses from lever locks to pin tumbler locks, wafer locks to multi point and more. You will also be undertaking the commercial rated locksmith course for dealing with all commercial rated locks and hardware, that's shop shutters, shutter switches, shutter bolts, metal door locks, mortice cylinder, fire rated locks and hardware, digital locks, coded locks, latch systems, anti barricade locks, medical cabinets to vending machines, cash boxes, safes to shipping containers and much more

 

Not only will you have 7 nights accommodation and 5 days of hands-on training but it's all one to one. This is perfect as we can move at your pace. If you have a good understanding of time on tools then you may get through the course much quicker and then spend more time sunbathing on the beach or spending time on holiday with the family. However if you really want to dig deep and challenge your skills and ability then we can go up to 6 days of training, giving you an extra day in our lock lab but remember you also get our online training package as part of this course. That is full access to our level 4 online video archive, e-books and manuals. 

 

Before you join us you will undertake a full online one to one pre course. This is a foundation level course known as the LFA1 qualification and it's similar to an apprentice level of training. This can take around 2 weeks of at home pre study to get you ready for your hands on course. By the time you join us you will know all your tools, locks, lock types, why locks fail, common issues and problems to fire ratings, BSI British Standard Institute kite marks and insurance regulations, laws and more. 

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However, we are not done there. To make sure you don't become a rogue trader we will enrol you into the Locksmith business Development program. Statistics have shown that 4 n 10 locksmiths who do a 3 or 5 day only course with no business training end up not making enough money so that when they do get a job in, they take advantage of the unsuspecting customer, over charge, rip people off to make more money because they are struggling. Since we are part of the Guild of Master Locksmiths UK we have a duty of care to make sure that once you are trained you can earn a decent wage and not turn to underhanded tactics to make money. That's why we enrol you on the locksmith business development course that will see you complete your Safe Contractor Approved Scheme Qualifications with side courses in consumer law which is vital to making contracts such as quoting on work at peoples door steps. You will also do your health and safety risk assessment as you need to learn to be able to do this on commercial jobs. You will also undergo our locksmith business marketing course which will aid you in gaining new work online and is vital to creating a decent income.

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Blue Reef Designs will also build you a starter locksmith website which is a budget 6 page website for your new business. This website will aid you in receiving work, hold information about your business and allow you to look professional when gaining contracts with estate agents and more. 

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Learn more about the 6 page starter website  with easy contact, one push phone calling so that when a customer/s find your website, they can then click the number and call you direct, its a starter website that works and will have a our full SEO package to make sure it ranks on Google. 

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Website SEO is one of the most costley of mistakes, with SEO writers charging £85 per hour and up to 6 months of contracted work. SEO is the way that your website is written with special words such as your business names, service area and location and what you do being required by search engines so that it can rank your website higher in the rankings. Ideally on the first page of Google. This is a master skill itself. As part of the page, once your website is built one of Blue Reef Designs SEO writers team members will write your full website and use all their skills to make sure your website ranks on Google.

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Blue Reef Designs will build all of your online business along with social site graphics and logos and Google maps listings plus much more. Visit Blue Reef Designs website who will be building your website to find out more by clicking here.

You will get a full logo designed by our designers at Blue Reef Designs, this can be used to create business cards and work clothing to signwriting vehicles. We will also have a custom advertisement design created that you can use to further your business. 

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You will receive a full locksmith tool kit, the kit is designed to get you through the first few years of trading, from electronic pick guns or EPG, hand picks for standard pin cylinder to dimple locks, flag picks to rakes, bypass tools, electronic tools like multi tool cutter and servicing tools, UPVC toe and Heeling tools and much, much more. 

You will also receive our at home training kit known as the Lock Lab, this is all the vices, lock clamps, re-pinning mat, webcam for recording sessions, tripod for the camera, all of the practice locks and hardware to learn from home to keep your skills fresh.

 

On day one when you receive your tools and home training kit you will also receive a stock of hardware, these are the most common items we fit and this stops you wasting valuable money on buying the wrong items, the wrong sizes of locks that sit for years and never get sold. We do this and supply everything because we know what works, we know how to create a real locksmith business that actually works. 

 

We could easily not offer one to one and do what our competitors do and that's grab the money and do classes of 6 students at a time each week. Ask yourself why we don't do that? That's because they turn out the worst in locksmiths. There is no pre-course, they come into a class of 6 people and are expected to keep up with people with lots of skill or knowledge to people that have no skills. To them it's all about money, but to us we know that once we start this journey we will be aiding you in business and on jobs for life. We don't just get you in, do a course then let you go. We make sure you're operating correctly, masking a good income and if not we will look to see why, we will figure out what's going wrong and work to get it corrected. It could be how you answer a call or what you say on that call that's stopping you from getting the job when people ring around for quotes. It could have any number of issues and that’s why we offer a full after care program and give you 2 extra days of training to be used in 24 months. If you are stuck on a specific lock then we can get you to our Newquay lock lab or our Gateshead lock lab and get it corrected or it could simply be an online training session.