A lock is a small part with a big job, and the same is true of the work around it. Whether you need a door opened, a new key made or a whole building put on one system, the pages below explain what each service involves and when it makes sense.
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Locksmith services
Lockout Services
If the key will not turn, the key is in two pieces, or the door was kicked and no longer closes, this is the…
- Home Lockout ServiceAfter a week of humid weather the back door has swollen in its frame.
- Business Lockout ServiceThe key went in stiffly, turned a quarter of the way, and came out in two pieces.
- Broken Key ExtractionThe key went in like any other morning, you turned it, and something gave with a small metallic click.
- Break-In Damage Lock RepairThe back door looks closed until you touch it.
- Seized & Jammed Lock OpeningEvery time you pull the key out of the side door it comes away gritty.
- Lost Keys — Same-Visit RekeyThe spare under the planter by the side door is gone.
Change or Rekey Locks
Residential services cover the whole life of a house: settling in, changing tenants, replacing worn locks…
- Lock RekeyingThe whole key ring went missing somewhere between the grocery store and the bus.
- Deadbolt InstallationThe old deadbolt has grown lazy.
- Lock Replacement & UpgradeSomeone tried the back door while you were away.
- Vintage Mortise Lock ServiceSomeone painted the door years ago without removing the hardware.
- Smart Lock InstallationThe deadbolt is a stiff double-cylinder model that needs a key from both sides, and in the dark hallway finding it is a nuisance.
- Gate & Building Entry LocksBetween the front gate, the side gate and the one behind the shed, there are three different padlocks, three different keys, and…
- Mailbox Lock ReplacementThe mailbox key snapped clean off in the lock last week, and the stub is still sitting somewhere inside the cylinder.
High Security Locks
For a business, high security means the stockroom, the cash office and the server closet hold whatever…
- Safe Opening & Combination ChangePry marks circle the dial after an overnight break-in attempt, and the safe now refuses every number that used to open it, as if…
- Safe Installation & ServicingBehind the filing cabinets sits a heavy floor safe nobody ever bolted down, left exactly as the last owner set it.
- High Security LocksYour shop has had four employees leave in two years and each one had a key.
Commercial Locks
Commercial work begins with a walk through the building and a list of doors.
- Commercial RekeyingTwo people left over the summer and the keys they handed back came up one short.
- Master Key System DesignA property manager taking over a small commercial building inherits a shoebox of keys with no labels and no chart.
- Access Control InstallationThe back door of the shop runs on one key, and by now it lives on six different rings: yours, two managers, a cleaner, a supplier…
- Panic & Exit HardwareAfter the fit-out, the gym floor now holds more people than the old office space ever did, and the exit door at the back still…
- Commercial-Grade Lock ReplacementThe kitchen delivery door gets shouldered open more than a hundred times a shift, and lately the latch slips past the strike…
Car Keys
An ignition that needs the key wiggled, a key that rotates yet leaves the steering locked, a cylinder that…
- Car Lockout ServiceIt is a January morning, minus twenty with the wind, and the key will not enter the door cylinder.
- Car Key ReplacementThe car is yours now, but somebody else still holds a key to it.
- Spare Car Key DuplicationThe blade on the everyday key has gone shiny and thin along one edge, and lately it needs a wiggle before the ignition catches.
- Key Fob ProgrammingA fob went missing weeks ago somewhere between a coat pocket and a parking lot, and a spare has covered the gap since.
- Transponder Key ProgrammingThe blade snapped off flush with the door lock last winter, and the shop that cut a replacement only matched the metal shape.
- Ignition Lock RepairThe new key from the hardware counter fits the door but stops halfway into the ignition slot, no matter how it is angled or how…
- Vehicle Lock RepairAfter a cold night the driver's door key barely goes in, and when it finally seats it stops halfway and will not turn any further.
- Motorcycle & Scooter KeysAfter a winter under a cover, the steering lock will not budge.