The whole ring gone, a bag stolen, a move where the box of keys never turned up. The answer is the same: confirm you live there, open the door, rekey each lock, and send you off with a fresh set that nobody else has.
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Lockout ServicesLocked out of a home or business, a key snapped in the lock or a lock that has seized: entry with the least damage…
Change or Rekey LocksNew keys for the locks you have, or new locks where the hardware has worn out: rekeying, replacement, deadbolts, smart…
High Security LocksCylinders and deadbolts built to resist picking, bumping and drilling, keys that cannot be copied without…
Commercial LocksLocks for shops, offices and buildings: rekeying at turnover, commercial-grade hardware, exit devices, master key…When a call is about upgrading locks, our first questions are about the doors rather than the products: how many there are, what they are made of, whether there is glass beside the lock, who holds keys today and what the rooms behind them hold. Those answers tell us which cylinder formats and which level of key control to bring, so the visit ends with a plan rather than a brochure.
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Home lockout service
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.
This section is for things that cannot wait: a door that will not let you in, a door that will not keep…
Renting a room, sharing with housemates or hosting a lodger raises the question of who can open which door.
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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ServiceLost Keys — Same-Visit Rekey
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ServiceCommercial Rekeying
Safes are high security for the things inside a room rather than the room itself. We install, bolt down, open and reset them for homes and businesses, and advise on where a safe helps and where a better door helps more.
Layer 1The key
After the attempted break-in the police officer pointed at your door and said the strike plate was held by two short screws. Nobody got in, but you have looked at that door differently every evening since.
Layer 2The cylinder
The brass handleset has gone blotchy and green where the winter salt reaches it, and the coating on the deadbolt is lifting in flakes. It still locks, but it looks tired beside the fresh paint on the door.
Layer 3The bolt and strike
You moved in three weeks ago. The previous owner left a handful of keys, none labelled, and the bolt on the side door rattles in its housing.
Layer 4The door and frame
You came home to find the front door standing open. The deadbolt is still thrown, but the strike plate is dangling from one screw and a fist-sized piece of the jamb is lying on the hall floor.
High Security Locks. After the attempted break-in the police officer pointed at your door and said the strike plate was held by two short screws.
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Keys for a business should be a record, not a rumour. Master key systems and restricted keyways make it possible to know how many keys exist and who holds each. The commercial pages explain how we set that record up and keep it accurate.
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Safes
Safe opening favours the gentlest method that fits the particular safe and lock, with drilling kept as a later option rather than a first resort. Manipulation and decoding are tried first for a mechanical dial, and a manufacturer reset or…
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If Someone forced the door and the frame is split.
Then Frame repair, a new strike and a fresh cylinder.
The wood is rebuilt before new hardware goes in, so the door locks tonight.
If They came in through a window, but your spare keys were on the hook.
Then Rekey every lock those keys operate.
Anything those keys open needs new pins: house, garage and shed, and a taken car key should be deprogrammed. Lock Rekeying
If There are fresh tool marks around the lock but nobody got in.
Then A security check of that door and the others.
We look at what held and suggest reinforcements that make a second attempt pointless.
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When a call is about upgrading locks, our first questions are about the doors rather than the products: how many there are, what they are made of, whether there is glass beside the lock, who holds keys today and what the rooms behind them hold. Those answers…
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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
We inspect the door, frame and lock before suggesting anything. Diagnosing from the driveway is how people end up with parts they did not need.
Step 4 of 5
Where there are sensible alternatives we explain them side by side, including the option of doing less than you expected.
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Tested, aligned, cleaned up and demonstrated. We do not consider a lock done until you have turned the key yourself.
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Every square is one home in a hundred.
It depends on whose mailbox it is. A private box at your door or on your post is yours, and its small cylinder can be rekeyed or replaced in the same visit. A compartment in a community mailbox or an apartment mailroom belongs to the postal service or the building, which handles lost-key lock changes through its own process. The locksmith will tell you which you have and who to call.
Winter is a normal time for this work. Cylinders come off the door and are pinned in the van, out of the wind, and go back on with a dry graphite or PTFE lubricant that sheds moisture rather than holding it the way oil does. A cleaned, dry-lubricated cylinder is less likely to freeze than the gritty one it replaced. Keeping a storm door closed over the main lock helps through freeze-thaw weeks.
A restricted keyway uses a controlled key profile whose blanks are supplied only through an authorised channel; the credential required, a letter, a registered account, a dealer agreement or a key card, depends on the system. Rekeying such a cylinder is routine work with the right pin kit. For a household that has just lost a key and wants the next one to be truly countable, it is a sensible upgrade for the main doors, and it can be fitted during the same visit.
A cylinder swap with new keys on one door is a short visit. A new deadbolt, reinforced strike and frame repair takes longer, and several doors keyed to a plan take longer again, mostly in bench time pinning cylinders. The locksmith gives you a realistic estimate once the doors have been looked at, because the frame condition and the door preparation matter more than the count of locks alone.
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