Fire exits have one job, and it is the opposite of a lock's. We install and service push bars, exit alarms and door closers so a crowd can leave in seconds while the door stays secure from outside.
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Lockout ServicesLocked out of a home or business, a key snapped in the lock or a lock that has seized: entry with the least damage…
Change or Rekey LocksNew keys for the locks you have, or new locks where the hardware has worn out: rekeying, replacement, deadbolts, smart…
High Security LocksCylinders and deadbolts built to resist picking, bumping and drilling, keys that cannot be copied without…
Commercial LocksLocks for shops, offices and buildings: rekeying at turnover, commercial-grade hardware, exit devices, master key…Heritage hardware asks for a different pace. Screws are slotted and soft, castings are irreplaceable, and the finish on a brass escutcheon took a century to arrive at. We work with hand tools where a drill would be careless, clean and re-spring original mechanisms, and cut keys for obsolete blanks by hand. Only when the metal itself has failed do we talk about a sympathetic replacement.
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The small details that keep a door secure.
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Our work covers doors and the things that secure them: locks, keys, cylinders, safes, keypads and the electronic hardware that has quietly replaced keys in many buildings. The groups below help you find the right page, and the phone number helps when reading is not the mood.
Lockouts and break-ins are the two emergencies we see most.
Front doors, back doors, patio sliders, garages, mailboxes and the bedroom door with the lock that never…
The key you reach for. The door you come home to. Good locksmith work begins with understanding how you use them.
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ServiceDeadbolt Installation
Following a break-in, the instinct is to buy the biggest lock. The better response is to look at how entry was made and strengthen that path first, then consider a cylinder and key system that stops it happening by key rather than by force.
Layer 1The key
You 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. The lock still works, but you no longer know who else it works for.
Layer 2The cylinder
The keys the seller handed over came in a sandwich bag: six unlabelled copies for two locks of different makes from different decades. You have no idea how many more copies exist or who is holding them.
Layer 3The bolt and strike
The door from the garage into the kitchen closes on a passage knob with no lock at all. Anyone who opens the garage is one turn of a handle from the house, and the insurance renewal form has a question about exactly that.
Layer 4The door and frame
They did not get in. The attempt left a screwdriver gouge in the door edge, a strike plate bent outward and a deadbolt that now needs a shove to throw.
High Security Locks. You 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.
Request a visit
Owners sometimes ask whether they need a locksmith or an alarm company. Usually both, for different jobs. Locks and keys decide who can open the door; the alarm reports when someone does. The commercial pages cover our half of that arrangement.
Commercial LocksWhen
Safes
Once a safe is open, the visit is only half finished. The lock is inspected for wear, corrosion or damage that caused the original problem, repaired or replaced if it is no longer reliable, and then set to a new combination chosen on the…
Tap a situation. The answer opens here.
If You inherited a safe and nobody wrote down the combination.
Then Manipulation or a precise drill-and-repair opening.
Once open, the lock is reset to a combination of your choosing and the safe goes back into service.
If The electronic keypad on your safe beeps but will not open.
Then Diagnose the lock before anything drastic.
A flat battery, a loose cable or a lockout timer are common; a failed lock body is replaced with a matching unit.
If You are bringing a safe home and want it anchored.
Then Bolt it to the floor and set the combination.
Anchoring plus a fresh code makes it properly yours.
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Heritage hardware asks for a different pace. Screws are slotted and soft, castings are irreplaceable, and the finish on a brass escutcheon took a century to arrive at.
Step 1 of 5
Describe the property, the hardware and what has changed, and the visit starts from what you have seen.
Step 2 of 5
Who comes and goes, whether you want codes or phone access, how the door is used in winter. The answers shape which lock suits you and how it should be set up.
Step 3 of 5
For openings and key work we confirm you have the right to be there. We explain why we ask, and we ask everyone.
Step 4 of 5
There is nothing hidden about what we do. Stand beside us, ask questions, and we will show you what the lock looks like inside.
Step 5 of 5
We put down a mat where there is drilling, wipe the hardware down and leave the area as we found it, only with a working lock.
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Every square is one home in a hundred.
Three things working together. The cylinder has a second locking mechanism, usually a sidebar released by finger pins or rotating pins, plus hardened steel in the path of a drill, so picking, bumping and drilling take far longer than on an ordinary lock. The deadbolt and strike are heavier and fastened into the framing. And the key is cut on a patented or restricted blank that only an authorised person can have copied. Remove any one and the door is weaker than the label suggests.
Barely. A high security cylinder sits in the same place as the old one and is usually distinguished only by a different keyway shape and sometimes a hardened collar. A graded deadbolt is a standard-looking deadbolt in your chosen finish. The reinforced strike is longer than the plate it replaces and the wrap-around reinforcer, if used, shows as a neat metal band on the door edge. The difference is felt when you lock up, not seen from the street.
Not at all. Homes are the most common place they are fitted, especially after a move, a break-in nearby, or the realisation that too many keys have been handed out over the years. A graded deadbolt with a patented cylinder and a reinforced strike is a modest, quiet upgrade for a front or side door. Businesses tend to go further, with laboratory-rated cylinders, heavy lock bodies and a documented key system across many doors.
The locksmith confirms that the person ordering the work is entitled to change the locks: the owner, a tenant with the landlord's agreement, or a property or facilities manager for a business. Photo identification and something linking you to the address usually settle it, and for a company a letter or a call to the named contact does the same. It protects you as much as anyone, since the same check stops someone else from changing your locks.
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