Locksmith
Ways we can help you
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
Lost every key to the house?
Home Lockout ServiceThe keypad on the smart lock blinks once and goes dark.
Business Lockout ServiceA cook stepped into the alley with the recycling and the rear door swung shut behind him.
Broken Key ExtractionThat key had been bending a little for years, and you kept straightening it.
Break-In Damage Lock RepairThe patio slider is sitting crooked on its track.
Seized & Jammed Lock OpeningIt is the coldest morning of the winter and the key goes halfway into the side door and stops.
Lost Keys — Same-Visit RekeyA roommate moved out on bad terms and says the key was left on the counter.
Change or Rekey Locks
Residential locksmithing means looking at how a household comes and goes, then making the locks match.
Lock RekeyingEvery copy of your house key seems to work a little differently.
Deadbolt InstallationThe door from the garage into the kitchen closes on a passage knob with no lock at all.
Lock Replacement & UpgradeEvery morning the front door key needs the same little dance: push in, lift, wiggle, turn.
Vintage Mortise Lock ServiceThe old skeleton key still fits the keyhole, but it now needs a jiggle, a lean on the door and a little luck before the bolt moves.
Smart Lock InstallationYou have just taken possession of the house and the previous owners handed over a keypad deadbolt with a code nobody wrote down and an app account you cannot get into.
Gate & Building Entry LocksThe driveway gate drags a groove into the gravel every time it swings, and the latch stopped catching weeks ago.
Mailbox Lock ReplacementAfter a winter of road spray and salt, the little lock on the mailbox door has gone stiff, then gritty, then almost immovable.
High Security Locks
Read here if you want to stop wondering about old keys and thin hardware.
Safe Opening & Combination ChangeThe new manager took over the shop last month and only now needs the back-office safe open, but the combination the previous owner was supposed to leave in writing never turned up anywhere in the handover file.
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 LocksThe pharmacy stockroom, the server closet or the cash office is protected by the same ordinary cylinder as the staff washroom.
Commercial Locks
For landlords of commercial units, turnover means locks.
Commercial RekeyingThe office has been reshuffled twice since the locks were last touched.
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 InstallationSomething went missing from the storeroom over a weekend, and when you ask who was in the building, the honest answer is anyone with a key.
Panic & Exit HardwareA padlock went on the stockroom's back door years ago for security and nobody has thought about it since, until the walkthrough this week pointed out that the same door is the room's only other way out.
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 plate instead of catching it on the first push.
Car Keys
Cars, trucks, vans and motorcycles all pass through this section.
Car Lockout ServiceYour toddler is buckled in the back seat, the doors locked when you shut yours, and your keys are on the front seat beside your phone.
Car Key ReplacementThe key snapped at the head while you were turning it in a stiff, frosty door lock.
Spare Car Key DuplicationA lockout last month ended with a locksmith opening the door and going home, and the same single key has been carried ever since with nothing behind it.
Key Fob ProgrammingButtons on the fob still light up and the remote still clicks, but the vehicle refuses to start even with the fob sitting in the cupholder.
Transponder Key ProgrammingSince the remote starter was installed last month, the original key has started acting strangely, the car catches on the first turn some mornings and refuses outright on others.
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 gently it is pushed.
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 KeysYou dig through every jacket pocket and the tank bag twice, but the ignition key that always sits on the same ring is nowhere to be found.