Locked out of your own house, moving into a place with strangers' keys still in circulation, or running a business where fourteen keys open eleven doors. All of it is a visit, not a project.
This is the single most useful thing on this website and almost nobody knows it. A rekey changes the pins inside the lock you already own, so every existing key stops working and a new one starts. Same lock, same door, same handle. Different key. It costs a fraction of new hardware and it takes minutes per lock.
The sellers, their kids, the realtor, a neighbor, a dog sitter and whoever else got a key over fifteen years. Nobody is coming to rob you, but you also cannot say who has a key, and that is worth ending in week one.
Copies get made and nobody tells the landlord. Rekeying between tenants costs less than replacing hardware every turnover, and it is the difference between a returned key and an actually secure unit.
Front, back, garage entry and the gate all matched to a single key while I am already there. It is a small thing that you notice every single day afterward.
No explanation needed and none will be asked for. Same day rekey, every old key dead, and I am not going to make it a conversation.
Most small businesses end up with a lock system that grew by accident. Every door got its own lock from whoever was standing there that day, and now the owner carries a ring like a janitor. A master key system fixes it in one pass. Your key opens everything. Each employee key opens only what it should.
Shops, offices, rentals, storage and anything with more than two doors. I build the system once and it works from then on.
Getting into a house you own is the most common call there is, and it should not turn into a repair bill. Picking and manipulating comes first, every time. Drilling means you are also buying a new lock, and that is on your invoice, not mine.
Usually about ten minutes once I am standing at the door. The variable is the drive, not the lock, which is exactly why calling somebody who is already in the county matters.
Yes, and that is a good thing. Any locksmith who will open a door without asking that question will open yours for somebody else too. An ID with the address, or mail, or a lease is normally enough.
Sometimes, but often it is the door and the frame moving with the seasons, which throws the bolt out of alignment. That is a twenty minute adjustment, not a new lock, and it is worth fixing before it fails completely on a cold morning.
Yes. I reset codes, diagnose dead boards and batteries, and install the versions that keep a real key override. A smart lock with no key backup is a lock that becomes a wall when the battery dies, and it always dies at a bad time.
One call gets you a price and a real locksmith who is already in the county. Rekeys, lockouts, hardware and master systems.
801-834-0453