Locksmith
Services for home, business and vehicle
Sometimes the job is obvious: a key snapped in the cylinder, a deadbolt that spins without catching. Other times you know something is wrong but not what to ask for. Either way, start here. Each service page describes the symptoms, the fix and what to have ready.
Lockout Services
Being locked out is unsettling, and so is a door that has been tampered with.
Home Lockout ServiceYou stepped out to grab the recycling bin and the door swung shut behind you.
Business Lockout ServiceIt is ten to nine, three staff are on the sidewalk with their coffees, and the key that has opened the glass front door for six years will not turn.
Broken Key ExtractionThe padlock on the shed has been stiff all summer.
Break-In Damage Lock RepairThere is a hole where the cylinder used to be.
Seized & Jammed Lock OpeningEvery time you pull the key out of the side door it comes away gritty.
Lost Keys — Same-Visit RekeyThe spare under the planter by the side door is gone.
Change or Rekey Locks
A knob lock alone is a latch, not a lock.
Lock RekeyingEvery copy of your house key seems to work a little differently.
Deadbolt InstallationThe old deadbolt has grown lazy.
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 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 InstallationThe deadbolt is a stiff double-cylinder model that needs a key from both sides, and in the dark hallway finding it is a nuisance.
Gate & Building Entry LocksEvery time the courtyard gate closes, it slams hard enough to rattle the fence panels, and the deadlatch never quite drops into the keeper before the spring yanks it the rest of the way.
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
Homeowners often come to high security after a scare, whether their own or a neighbour's.
Safe Opening & Combination ChangeA customer's rifle safe at the range has a dial that simply will not respond to the combination written on the sales receipt from years ago.
Safe Installation & ServicingA homeowner inherited a heavy old dial safe from a parent's house, moved it into the new place, and has no idea whether the bolt-work still works, whether the lock is sound, or how it should be anchored.
High Security LocksYou have lost count of how many people have had a key to your house over the years: cleaners, a contractor, a former partner, the previous owner's family.
Commercial Locks
Commercial doors carry more hardware than most people notice: cylinders, exit devices, closers, strikes, keypads.
Commercial RekeyingThe office has been reshuffled twice since the locks were last touched.
Master Key System DesignThe new wing was built with its own brand of cylinder, so the two-year-old keys from the original building do not open a single door in the addition.
Access Control InstallationThe keypad on the side door has started sticking on cold mornings, codes get shared instead of reset, and half the staff still remember a code you meant to retire two hires ago.
Panic & Exit HardwareThe new access-control reader at the staff entrance works fine going in, but nobody has sorted out the door's exit side, and right now a card reader and a pushbar exist as two separate ideas.
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
An ignition that needs the key wiggled, a key that rotates yet leaves the steering locked, a cylinder that spins without engaging.
Car Lockout ServiceThe rental van came with one key.
Car Key ReplacementThe key snapped at the head while you were turning it in a stiff, frosty door lock.
Spare Car Key DuplicationA teenager just passed a driving test and reasonably wants a key of their own rather than negotiating over the family's single copy every time the car is needed.
Key Fob ProgrammingA fob went missing weeks ago somewhere between a coat pocket and a parking lot, and a spare has covered the gap since.
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 RepairTurning the key used to take one smooth motion.
Vehicle Lock RepairPressing the remote locks three doors with a solid clunk and leaves the rear passenger door untouched, every single time.
Motorcycle & Scooter KeysThe key still opens the seat and unlocks the fork, but at the ignition it needs a slow half-turn and a small lift before the switch engages, a habit that has crept in over years of daily starts.