Locksmith
The work we take on
Below are the jobs we handle most often. For each one you will find what it fixes, how a visit usually goes and what information helps us arrive with the right parts. If two services sound alike, call and we will explain the difference in a sentence.
Lockout Services
After a break-in the door is evidence, then it is a problem.
Home Lockout ServiceIt is minus fifteen, the wind is coming across the driveway, and the key will only go halfway into the deadbolt.
Business Lockout ServiceThe heavy glass door has been scraping the threshold for weeks.
Broken Key ExtractionYou were locking up on the way out when the key broke in the lock.
Break-In Damage Lock RepairThere is a hole where the cylinder used to be.
Seized & Jammed Lock OpeningYou are inside, the deadbolt is thrown, and the thumb-turn will not budge.
Lost Keys — Same-Visit RekeyYour purse was taken from the back of a chair at a restaurant.
Change or Rekey Locks
Older homes carry mortise locks with warded keys, brass knobs and strike plates fixed with tiny screws.
Lock RekeyingYour basement tenant has given notice, and a new one arrives on the first.
Deadbolt InstallationThe front door has a handsome lever and a keyed knob, and that is all.
Lock Replacement & UpgradeThe keys the seller handed over came in a sandwich bag: six unlabelled copies for two locks of different makes from different decades.
Vintage Mortise Lock ServiceYou bought a house with its original hardware and a bag of loose keys.
Smart Lock InstallationThe rental turns over every few months and each time you drive across town to swap keys, then wonder whether copies were made.
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 a growing pile of duplicates in a kitchen drawer that nobody can match to the right lock anymore.
Mailbox Lock ReplacementThe property manager mentioned that half the compartments in the lobby's mailbox panel are original to the building and are starting to fail one by one, key by key, as tenants turn over year after year.
High Security Locks
A pick-resistant cylinder in a hollow door with a two-screw strike is a locked padlock on a paper bag.
Safe Opening & Combination ChangeThe bookkeeper who set the office safe's code retired in a hurry, and the float cash for tomorrow's registers is sitting behind a keypad nobody else in the building can operate.
Safe Installation & ServicingA dinner service ends with a stack of bills and a handful of credit slips, and right now they sit in an unlocked cash box on a shelf until morning, because nobody has gotten around to anything sturdier.
High Security LocksAfter the attempted break-in the police officer pointed at your door and said the strike plate was held by two short screws.
Commercial Locks
Commercial rekeying is planned around your trading hours and your staff list.
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 InstallationHead office wants a record of who opens the branch and when, tied to an actual name rather than a shared code scrawled on a sticky note taped under the till.
Panic & Exit HardwareThe crossbar on the loading-dock door barely returns anymore.
Commercial-Grade Lock ReplacementAt closing time the hookbolt on the storefront door catches the keeper only on the second or third try, and one employee has started giving the door a shoulder to force it home.
Car Keys
Locked out with the engine running, keys visible on the seat, dog in the back.
Car Lockout ServiceThe rental van came with one key.
Car Key ReplacementThe engine cranks, catches for a second and dies, and a small key-shaped light keeps blinking on the dash.
Spare Car Key DuplicationOne key opens the car, starts the car, and rides in one pocket every day.
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 remote fob has gone silent, the doors won't unlock with a button press, and the little emergency blade tucked inside it has not been used since the day the car was bought.
Ignition Lock RepairA scrape sits beside the ignition slot, left by whoever tried the vehicle overnight in the driveway.
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 KeysThe key turns half a rotation in the ignition, catches, then the blade lets go with a small snap.