Training is held at our Cornwall Lock Lab and Workshop offering the ability for you to learn of different van practice doors and learning how to make jigs so when you get home you can make more and keep practicing!

 

  Training is completed on one to one basis which allows you to ask questions, make mistakes and go at your own pace. 

 

You will be given full in-depth training starting with our online training program to get you course ready. The pre-training program will get you used to the locks, brands, tools, terms used to insurance regulations and much more. 

 

Once with us on site you will fit all types of locks from a variety of different manufacturers including dead locks, hook locks, slam locks and other security products related to vans..  

 

Van Lock Fitting Course includes:

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• Online Pre-Course Training Program to VLI1 Award with the Guild of Master Locksmiths

• 3 Nights Accommodation in a 2023 4 birth holiday home (see here)

• Types of Vans we see in the UK and what to avoid 

• Types of locks we fit, how they work, the pros and cons of each lock

• Lock pricing, know what they cost and retail for!

• Labour, how much we charge for what service!

• The weaknesses in van doors and how burglaries are performed

• Common mistakes we see from bad fitters!

• The correct way to layout your measurements and the measuring tools we use

• How to make a jig to practice on!

• Marking up and cutting a metal jig before we move to a real door

• Types of ways to cut metal effectively with different tools

• Treating bare metal and what's best to use

• Lock Fitting and making sure its lined up before the final fit

• Fitting a full locks system to a van door!

• Fitting other security items and locks found on vans

• Problem solving including lock failures, jammed locks, over-cutting and more!

• Learn lock servicing and repair

• Learn how to decode locks with lost keys

• Learn how to pick locks with keys inside the van 

• After course online training program to prevent skill fade with easy to videos on each subject!

• Access to the full online business package from building a website to legal documents from terms and conditions to invoicing and much more!

• A full aftercare program with 2 free training days if required after the course and once your trading!

• Plus much more!

 

At Cornwall and Devon Locksmith Training all of our courses are one to one so that means you can select a date of your choice! Simply drop us a message and let us know when you are looking to train and we can let you know what dates we have available.

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We also offer accommodation! Yes you can stay at our locksmith campus in a 2023 season holiday rental that's a 4 birth park home set within 20 acres of land with 3 lakes. Check out our accommodation here. The accommodation is included in the 3 day course! for 3 nights that's arrival night, then 2 nights after that and on the 3rd day of training you check out after the course which will finish at around mid day, The 1 day course comes with 1 nights accommodation for the day you arrive and then you check out after your one day course which ends at 5pm.