Locksmith
Our services at a glance
Below are the jobs we handle most often. For each one you will find what it fixes, how a visit usually goes and what information helps us arrive with the right parts. If two services sound alike, call and we will explain the difference in a sentence.
Lockout Services
A stranger's boot print on your door changes how a house feels.
Home Lockout ServiceSomeone pushed the privacy button on the bathroom door and pulled it shut behind them, leaving the room locked and empty.
Business Lockout ServiceThe key went in stiffly, turned a quarter of the way, and came out in two pieces.
Broken Key ExtractionOvernight the deadbolt froze, and this morning the key would only turn partway.
Break-In Damage Lock RepairThere is a hole where the cylinder used to be.
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 RekeyThe lawyer's envelope held two keys for the new house.
Change or Rekey Locks
A house with a new baby, a house with an elderly parent moving in, a house where a grown child has moved out with a key still on the ring.
Lock RekeyingThe previous owners left a coffee tin of keys on the counter, some labelled, most not.
Deadbolt InstallationThe front door has a handsome lever and a keyed knob, and that is all.
Lock Replacement & UpgradeThe century home's original mortise lock takes a key the size of a spoon, sticks in humid weather and has worn its strike to a groove.
Vintage Mortise Lock ServiceSomeone painted the door years ago without removing the hardware.
Smart Lock InstallationYour mother still lives on her own, and the personal support worker, the pharmacy delivery and two siblings all need to get in on different days.
Gate & Building Entry LocksA visitor buzzes from the panel downstairs, someone presses the button by the door, and nothing happens.
Mailbox Lock ReplacementThe mailbox key snapped clean off in the lock last week, and the stub is still sitting somewhere inside the cylinder.
High Security Locks
Businesses with pharmacies, records, cash or controlled stock need doors that hold under attack and keys that cannot be duplicated on a whim.
Safe Opening & Combination ChangeA software update reset the clinic's small safe overnight, and the receptionist's usual code now does nothing on a keypad that lights up but goes no further.
Safe Installation & ServicingThe accountant's office keeps a decade of client files in cardboard boxes because the only safe in the building is a small drawer safe meant for a laptop, nowhere near large enough for binders of paper.
High Security LocksYour shop has had four employees leave in two years and each one had a key.
Commercial Locks
Business lockouts differ from home ones.
Commercial RekeyingTwo people left over the summer and the keys they handed back came up one short.
Master Key System DesignA self-storage operator wants the office, the tenant gate and the equipment shed on three different levels of access for staff, but every lock on the property currently answers to the same handful of interchangeable keys handed out over the years.
Access Control InstallationSomething went missing from the storeroom over a weekend, and when you ask who was in the building, the honest answer is anyone with a key.
Panic & Exit HardwareThe daycare wants the yard gate and the classroom door alarmed so a staff member hears the moment it opens, without turning either into something a child could be shut behind.
Commercial-Grade Lock ReplacementA new tenant moved into the unit next door, and the property manager just found three different cylinders on three doors, none of them cut to the same key.
Car Keys
Drivers usually meet us in a parking lot with the day's plans falling apart.
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 only key to the car went into the lake with the kayak.
Spare Car Key DuplicationA car sits at the cottage all season, and the only key to it lives on a ring three hours away in the city.
Key Fob ProgrammingA replacement fob just arrived in its box, shiny and untouched.
Transponder Key ProgrammingA second driver has joined the household, and the one existing key gets handed back and forth between two schedules that rarely line up.
Ignition Lock RepairThe key slides in fine and turns without any resistance at all, and the dash lights flicker, but nothing catches.
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 KeysYou dig through every jacket pocket and the tank bag twice, but the ignition key that always sits on the same ring is nowhere to be found.