We split our work into emergency, residential, automotive and commercial, but plenty of jobs sit between them. A landlord's rekey is residential work done with commercial thinking. A car key made in a driveway is automotive work with a home visit. Ask, and we will place it.
Emergency does not always mean dramatic. A key that has started sticking every morning is an emergency waiting to happen, and it is a good deal easier to deal with before it snaps.
Residential locksmithing means looking at how a household comes and goes, then making the locks match. Sometimes that is a single fresh cylinder; sometimes it is matched deadbolts on every door and a keypad for the one used most.
The kick is the most common attack on a residential door, and a standard strike plate held by two short screws fails to it. Reinforced strikes and door-edge wraps are the least glamorous part of high security and the part most often worth doing.
A store safe that will not open, a combination nobody remembers, a floor safe that needs moving or a new one that needs bolting down: safe work sits under commercial services here, alongside the doors that stand between the street and the safe.
We open locked vehicles without keys, cut new keys when all are lost, clone spares, program fobs and transponders, pull broken keys from doors and ignitions, and repair lock cylinders that have worn out. That is the whole automotive list, and each has a page.
Home Lockout ServiceAfter a week of humid weather the back door has swollen in its frame.
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…
Broken Key ExtractionThat key had been bending a little for years, and you kept straightening it.
Break-In Damage Lock RepairYou came home to find the front door standing open.
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 spare under the planter by the side door is gone.
Car Lockout ServiceYou stepped out at the pump to pay inside, the passenger locked their door out of habit, and the driver's door caught behind you.
Car Key ReplacementThe only key to the car went into the lake with the kayak.
Spare Car Key DuplicationTwo coworkers share one delivery van and one key between them, trading it at the start and end of every shift in a parking lot.
Key Fob ProgrammingThe remote clicks the way it always has, but the vehicle no longer locks, unlocks or answers with its usual chirp.
Transponder Key ProgrammingA second driver has joined the household, and the one existing key gets handed back and forth between two schedules that rarely…
Ignition Lock RepairThe new key from the hardware counter fits the door but stops halfway into the ignition slot, no matter how it is angled or how…
Vehicle Lock RepairAfter a cold night the driver's door key barely goes in, and when it finally seats it stops halfway and will not turn any further.
Motorcycle & Scooter KeysThe bike came home from its previous owner with a single worn key that starts the engine but does nothing for the seat latch or…