There is a lot of lock on the market that looks solid and is not. We fit residential and commercial grades we have taken apart ourselves, tell you plainly where the budget option is fine, and where a heavier grade is worth having.
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There is a lot of lock on the market that looks solid and is not. We fit residential and commercial grades we have taken apart ourselves, tell you plainly where the budget option is fine, and where a heavier grade is worth having.
Key control is the quiet half of security for a business. A patented keyway means blanks are not sold openly, every key is numbered, and a copy needs a signature from someone you named. We register the system, keep the schedule of which key opens which door, and repin a cylinder when a key does not come back, so a staff change never becomes a mystery.
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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Homes, businesses and vehicles each bring their own hardware and their own habits. We have grouped our services by where you are likely to need them, so you can find the one that matches your situation without wading through everything else.
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 years will not turn.
Broken Key ExtractionThe key went in like any other morning, you turned it, and something gave with a small metallic click.
Break-In Damage Lock RepairSomeone smashed the little window beside the door, reached in and turned the thumb-turn.
Seized & Jammed Lock OpeningThe lock works, but only if you lean on the door with your hip while turning the key.
Lost Keys — Same-Visit RekeyThe keys fell out of a gym bag somewhere between the arena and the parking lot.
Lock RekeyingThe previous owners left a coffee tin of keys on the counter, some labelled, most not.
Deadbolt InstallationThe old deadbolt has grown lazy.
Lock Replacement & UpgradeThe house is fifteen years old and every exterior door still wears the light hardware the builder fitted: a short bolt, a thin strike held by two small screws, and a knob lock that never suited a street entrance.
Vintage Mortise Lock ServiceThe interior bedroom doors on the second floor have the original mortise latches, and none of them close any more.
Smart Lock InstallationThere are four copies of the front-door key floating around: one with the cleaner, one with a neighbour, one on a hook at your parents' place, and one you honestly cannot account for.
Gate & Building Entry LocksA neighbour mentions, in passing, that the key from three tenants ago still lets him into the building's front door.
Mailbox Lock ReplacementThe property manager mentioned that half the compartments in the lobby's mailbox panel are original to the building and are starting to fail one by one, key by key, as tenants turn over year after year.
Your purse was taken from the back of a chair at a restaurant. The cards can be cancelled by phone tonight, but the house keys were in the side pocket beside a driver's licence that shows exactly where those keys fit.
Lost Keys — Same-Visit RekeyYou 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.
High Security LocksThe manager's key ring went missing somewhere between the bank and the car, and the master on it opened every door in the building. Until the cylinders are changed, whoever finds it is holding the run of the place.
Commercial RekeyingHigh security
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.
You run a home office with client files and equipment, and your insurer has asked what kind of lock is on the door.
The house is fifteen years old and every exterior door still wears the light hardware the builder fitted: a short bolt, a thin strike held by two small screws, and a knob lock that never suited a street entrance.
The old deadbolt has grown lazy.
Someone smashed the little window beside the door, reached in and turned the thumb-turn.
Commercial
Keys for a business should be a record, not a rumour. Master key systems and restricted keyways make it possible to know how many keys exist and who holds each. The commercial pages explain how we set that record up and keep it accurate.
High security
Pry marks circle the dial after an overnight break-in attempt, and the safe now refuses every number that used to open it, as if something inside has locked itself down.
The office is moving three blocks over, and the old commercial safe that has sat bolted to the concrete for fifteen years now needs to come out, travel across town, and go back down just as solidly.
Sensible optionUpgrade the deadbolt within the building's rules.
WhyMost buildings allow a better lock in the same finish; we check with management first.
Sensible optionHave the mailbox lock replaced through management.
WhyLobby mail units belong to the building, so we arrange it with the property manager.
Sensible optionRekey the suite lock.
WhyThe cylinder is re-pinned so only your new keys work; any building access key is preserved.
Sensible optionBroken Key Extraction
WhyThe tools are simple and precise.
Sensible optionBreak-In Damage Lock Repair
WhyBreak-in damage lock repair is the visit that turns a forced door back into a locked one.
Sensible optionSeized & Jammed Lock Opening
WhyOn storefronts, offices and older houses the hardware is often a mortise lock with a lever, and the jam is frequently inside the case, not the cylinder.
Describe the property, the hardware and what has changed, and the visit starts from what you have seen.
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We visit each door on the plan and talk about who uses it, how often and at what hours. Wiring routes and power are checked at the same time.
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Readers, electric strikes or maglocks and the controller go in with cables hidden where the building allows. Every door is tested for release and re-locking.
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We add the first users, show your administrator how to add and remove people, and leave written notes so the system is yours to run.
Ontario
2021 Census
About 58% of homes in Toronto were built in 1980 or earlier, according to the 2021 Census.
In neighbourhoods of established homes, keys have often been copied many times over many owners. Rekeying every exterior door to one fresh key is the common first job, and it works on old cylinders just as well as on new ones.
Single-detached houses make up about 23% of homes in Toronto (2021 Census).
Where most homes are apartments or condos, storage lockers, bike rooms and parking gates carry their own locks. A locksmith can supply and key padlocks and cam locks for those spaces so one household ring covers everything it uses.
The work pauses rather than proceeds, and the locksmith helps you find another route: a neighbour or building manager who can confirm you live there, a document on your phone, a family member who can bring paperwork, or completing the check inside after entry when the documents are behind the door. Verification protects you as much as anyone, because the same standard applies to whoever might one day claim to live at your address.
Drilling is the last rung, reached only when the cylinder has genuinely stopped cooperating. Typical reasons are a plug seized by corrosion or a failed spring, a key snapped deep inside that blocks the pins, a high-security cylinder whose anti-pick features make picking impractical, or a lock already damaged by someone's earlier attempt. The decision is explained before the drill comes out, the hole is confined to the cylinder, and replacement hardware goes in straight afterwards.
Yes, usually. Backup access on a keypad or app-controlled deadbolt depends on the model. Many carry small external terminals that wake the lock when a fresh nine-volt battery is touched to them, long enough to enter your code; some also keep a conventional keyed override behind a cover, which a locksmith can pick or decode like any other cylinder, while other current models have no cylinder at all and rely only on their own recovery method. Once inside, the batteries are replaced and your codes are checked.
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.
We are straightforward about time. A locksmith heading to Toronto calls when he is on the way, gives you an honest sense of how long the job will take once he has seen the door, and tells you if something changes. Nobody is left watching the driveway wondering, and nobody discovers the visit ran long only when the invoice arrives.
