Locksmith
Ways we can help you
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.
Lockout Services
When you are standing outside your own home, car or shop, the details of lock mechanisms matter less than a steady voice on the phone.
Home Lockout ServiceThe key slides in and turns all the way round, but the bolt stays put.
Business Lockout ServiceA cook stepped into the alley with the recycling and the rear door swung shut behind him.
Broken Key ExtractionYou were locking up on the way out when the key broke in the lock.
Break-In Damage Lock RepairPolice have come and gone, the occurrence number is on a sticky note, and you are standing in a cold hallway looking at a splintered frame, wondering how the house gets locked before everyone tries to sleep.
Seized & Jammed Lock OpeningThe key slides all the way in, exactly as it has for years, and then refuses to turn in either direction.
Lost Keys — Same-Visit RekeyYour purse was taken from the back of a chair at a restaurant.
Change or Rekey Locks
Your home should be easy for you to get into and hard for anyone else.
Lock RekeyingYour roommate moved out last weekend.
Deadbolt InstallationSomeone tried the door last winter.
Lock Replacement & UpgradeThe house is fifteen years old and every exterior door still wears the light hardware the builder fitted: a short bolt, a thin strike held by two small screws, and a knob lock that never suited a street entrance.
Vintage Mortise Lock ServiceSomeone painted the door years ago without removing the hardware.
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 ReplacementThe mail slot on the shop's exterior wall has a small compartment lock that a former employee still has a key to, months after they left.
High Security Locks
Sliding doors, side gates, basement walkouts and garage entries are often the paths of least resistance on a house.
Safe Opening & Combination ChangeThe pharmacy's drop safe has a keypad that finally lost power for good, and the little override key that was supposed to live behind the counter cannot be found anywhere.
Safe Installation & ServicingThe keypad on the office safe blinks a low-battery warning every morning now, and whoever notices it first quietly hopes someone else deals with it before the batteries finally give out mid-week.
High Security LocksYou jiggle the key a little and the old deadbolt opens even when the cut does not look quite right.
Commercial Locks
Business owners usually want two things from us: to know exactly who can open which door, and to stop worrying about it.
Commercial RekeyingThe manager's key ring went missing somewhere between the bank and the car, and the master on it opened every door in the building.
Master Key System DesignAfter a busy shift the manager counts the keys coming back in and loses track of who still has one.
Access Control InstallationThe back door of the shop runs on one key, and by now it lives on six different rings: yours, two managers, a cleaner, a supplier who restocks early, and a keyholder nobody quite remembers approving.
Panic & Exit HardwareThe fire inspector's note is blunt: the banquet hall's second exit still turns on a deadbolt, and the crowd it is rated to hold needs a door that opens under one motion, no key involved.
Commercial-Grade Lock ReplacementAn inspection report flagged the rear exit as needing hardware that opens with one motion and no key, and that door currently has an ordinary keyed knob on the inside.
Car Keys
The most common automotive call is a lost or broken key.
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 DuplicationThe blade on the everyday key has gone shiny and thin along one edge, and lately it needs a wiggle before the ignition catches.
Key Fob ProgrammingA new driver has joined the household, and the one existing fob is the only key anyone has ever had cut for this vehicle.
Transponder Key ProgrammingThe car came with a single key when the sale went through, and that key is the only thing standing between the household and being stranded.
Ignition Lock RepairA scrape sits beside the ignition slot, left by whoever tried the vehicle overnight in the driveway.
Vehicle Lock RepairThe button on your key fob does nothing now: no beep, no flash of the lights, no click from the doors.
Motorcycle & Scooter KeysThe key turns half a rotation in the ignition, catches, then the blade lets go with a small snap.