Commercial
Commercial Locks
For landlords of commercial units, turnover means locks. We rekey between tenants, set up master systems that let the building manager reach every unit, and replace hardware that a decade of tenants has worn out.
Which one do I need?
- The office has been reshuffled twice since the locks were last touched.Commercial Rekeying
- A property manager taking over a small commercial building inherits a shoebox of keys with no labels and no chart.Master Key System Design
- Something 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.Access Control Installation
- A 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.Panic & Exit Hardware
- The 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.Commercial-Grade Lock Replacement
Commercial Locks
Locks for shops, offices and buildings: rekeying at turnover, commercial-grade hardware, exit devices, master key systems and access control.
Commercial Rekeying
Reading the keys that already exist
Before deciding anything new, it helps to understand the old. Gather every key the business can find, including the ones with faded tape labels, and the locksmith reads them against the cylinders on the walk. Some will turn out to be duplicates of each other, some will belong to hardware that was replaced years ago, and some may operate doors nobody expected them to.
Hardware-store copies stand out by their blanks and by the way they wear. This reading shows how far the key count has drifted and whether an old master still exists, and it lets the new plan retire everything found in the drawer rather than only the keys anyone remembered.