Storefront glass doors, back doors that take deliveries, and an office suite with too many keys floating around all have simple fixes. We rekey, repair closers and pivots, install exit devices where a crowd must leave in one motion, and keep your key list manageable.
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Commercial LocksLocks for shops, offices and buildings: rekeying at turnover, commercial-grade hardware, exit devices, master key…After a break-in, people want two things: the door secure tonight and a sense that it will not happen again. We deal with the first on the spot, repairing the frame, replacing what was forced and rekeying every lock a stolen key might open. The second is a conversation, usually a few days later, about strike plates, longer screws, better cylinders and what the door itself can take.
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Every service here is something we do week in, week out, not a line added to look thorough. If you would rather talk than read, the phone number at the top goes straight to someone who can tell you whether the job is a small fix or a planned visit.
A stranger's boot print on your door changes how a house feels.
A house is a working machine of doors, and each one has a job.
The key you reach for. The door you come home to. Good locksmith work begins with understanding how you use them.
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For homes, high security usually means a graded deadbolt, a patented cylinder and long screws into the frame. For businesses it adds laboratory-rated cylinders, heavy lock bodies and a key register. Both start with a conversation about what the door protects.
Layer 1The key
The restricted keys you bought years ago are no longer restricted; the locksmith mentioned the patent has run out and blanks are sold openly. Your key control quietly stopped being control.
Layer 2The cylinder
The century home's original mortise lock takes a key the size of a spoon, sticks in humid weather and has worn its strike to a groove. You want a lock that works every day without giving up the old door.
Layer 3The bolt and strike
The old deadbolt has grown lazy. You turn the thumb-turn and the bolt creeps out halfway, then needs a second push with the door pulled tight.
Layer 4The door and frame
They did not get in. The attempt left a screwdriver gouge in the door edge, a strike plate bent outward and a deadbolt that now needs a shove to throw.
High Security Locks. The restricted keys you bought years ago are no longer restricted; the locksmith mentioned the patent has run out and blanks are sold openly.
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When staff change, the keys should change. That sounds obvious and is often skipped. Commercial rekeying is the routine way to keep a business's keys matched to the people who currently work there, and here we describe how it is scheduled and recorded.
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Mechanical and electronic safe locks call for genuinely different work. A mechanical dial is opened by manipulation or decoding, reading resistance through the spindle as the wheel pack lines up one wheel at a time.
Tap a situation. The answer opens here.
If The key goes in but will not turn on cold mornings.
Then Clean and lubricate the cylinder.
Moisture and old grease thicken below freezing; a cold-rated lubricant keeps the pins moving.
If The door latches fine in summer and refuses to in winter.
Then Adjust the strike and hinges for seasonal movement.
Frames shift with freeze-thaw; a strike set for the cold months keeps the door locking year round.
If The lock on the side door is frozen solid.
Then Thaw it properly, then seal against water getting in.
Forcing a frozen cylinder snaps keys; gentle heat frees it, and a weather cover keeps the water out afterwards.
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After a break-in, people want two things: the door secure tonight and a sense that it will not happen again. We deal with the first on the spot, repairing the frame, replacing what was forced and rekeying every lock a stolen key might open.
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Describe the property, the hardware and what has changed, and the visit starts from what you have seen.
Step 2 of 5
Together we list the doors, then decide who should open everything, who should open a floor and who should open one room. That structure becomes the keying chart.
Step 3 of 5
For lockouts and key cutting we check identification or another proof. It is a courtesy to you and to whoever else holds a key.
Step 4 of 5
Sometimes the sensible move is a small fix now and a planned upgrade later. We tell you which parts are urgent and which can wait.
Step 5 of 5
We leave the area tidy and give you a short written account of what was done and how many keys were cut.
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You can, with a conversation first. Tenancy rules in this province expect a tenant to have the landlord's consent before changing locks and expect the landlord to hold a key, so ask in writing and share the plan. Many landlords welcome a proper bolt. The locksmith can key the new cylinder to the building's existing key where the keyway allows, and leave a note of the model and keys cut for the building manager.
Yes, on nearly any wood, steel-clad or fibreglass entry door. The locksmith marks a spot above the knob, clamps a jig to the door and bores a cross hole through the face and a smaller hole through the edge, then cuts a pocket and fits a strike on the frame. The main things checked first are the door's thickness, what is inside it at that height and whether glass sits close by.
A replacement into existing holes is generally the shorter visit, and boring a fresh door with a new strike takes longer, roughly an hour or two per door including the frame work and testing. Steel doors, keying alike, frame repairs after a forced entry and fitting a jamb reinforcer each add time. The locksmith can give a realistic estimate once the door and frame have been looked at.
Tell your locksmith so the register is updated, then decide together what the loss means. If the key was lost with nothing identifying your address, the practical risk is low and many people simply strike it off. If it went missing with identification or from a known person, the affected cylinders can be repinned so that key stops working while the rest of the system continues. Because the keyway is controlled, you know that no further copies exist.
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