Locksmith
What we can sort out
Every service here is something we do week in, week out, not a line added to look thorough. If you would rather talk than read, the phone number at the top goes straight to someone who can tell you whether the job is a small fix or a planned visit.
Lockout Services
Forced doors, frozen locks, lost keys and fragments in the keyway are the daily bread of emergency work.
Home Lockout ServiceIt is minus fifteen, the wind is coming across the driveway, and the key will only go halfway into the deadbolt.
Business Lockout ServiceThe manager who holds the only set of office keys is on a plane.
Broken Key ExtractionYou were locking up on the way out when the key broke in the lock.
Break-In Damage Lock RepairThe shop's aluminum door has a bent meeting stile and the hookbolt is jammed half out.
Seized & Jammed Lock OpeningThe key turns a full circle without any resistance and the deadbolt stays exactly where it is.
Lost Keys — Same-Visit RekeyThe lawyer's envelope held two keys for the new house.
Change or Rekey Locks
Gate locks, building entry locks and shared vestibule doors are part of residential work too, especially for townhouses and small walk-ups.
Lock RekeyingYour basement tenant has given notice, and a new one arrives on the first.
Deadbolt InstallationThe back door has a deadbolt in name only: a short bolt, a thin brass strike held by two little screws, and a jamb you can flex with your palm.
Lock Replacement & UpgradeThe keys the seller handed over came in a sandwich bag: six unlabelled copies for two locks of different makes from different decades.
Vintage Mortise Lock ServiceThe key turns freely in the round cylinder on the door, all the way around and back, without the bolt shifting at all.
Smart Lock InstallationHalf the evenings someone asks whether the back door got locked, and nobody is sure.
Gate & Building Entry LocksSomeone pried at the gate latch overnight, and now the strike plate hangs by one screw and the cylinder spins loose in its housing.
Mailbox Lock ReplacementThe little brass key for your curbside mailbox was on the same ring as the one you lost at the gym last week.
High Security Locks
Firearms cabinets, jewellery, passports, business records and cash all raise the same question: is a locked drawer enough?
Safe Opening & Combination ChangeThe bookkeeper who set the office safe's code retired in a hurry, and the float cash for tomorrow's registers is sitting behind a keypad nobody else in the building can operate.
Safe Installation & ServicingThe till drawer has been holding two days of cash because the new shop never got a proper safe, and a locked drawer under the counter is the only thing standing between that cash and anyone who works late.
High Security LocksAfter the attempted break-in the police officer pointed at your door and said the strike plate was held by two short screws.
Commercial Locks
For multi-tenant buildings, the entry door, the mailroom, the mechanical room and each suite need their own place in a key plan.
Commercial RekeyingTwo people left over the summer and the keys they handed back came up one short.
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 InstallationThe team has grown past the point where one shared key still makes sense.
Panic & Exit HardwareSomeone at the front counter always has to unlock the side door by hand before the lunch rush, because the round doorknob out there was never meant to be an exit for a room this size.
Commercial-Grade Lock ReplacementHead office wants every branch keyed alike under one system, and half the locations are still running whatever lockset the original contractor happened to install years ago.
Car Keys
Automotive locksmithing is done beside the car with equipment carried in the van: key cutters, programmers, decoders and lockout tools.
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 car is yours now, but somebody else still holds a key to it.
Spare Car Key DuplicationOne key opens the car, starts the car, and rides in one pocket every day.
Key Fob ProgrammingA replacement fob just arrived in its box, shiny and untouched.
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 RepairHalf the key is still in your hand.
Vehicle Lock RepairThe car came with a second key that grinds and catches in the rear door, unlike the smooth key you use every day on the front two.
Motorcycle & Scooter KeysTwo keys came with the scooter: one for the ignition and steering, an entirely different one for the seat and the storage compartment underneath it, so opening the seat means carrying twice the metal.