What We Do

Lock work for homes, rentals, shops and offices sorts into six kinds: repairs, installations and replacements, maintenance and inspections, urgent service, home and apartment locks, and car keys. A job can be as small as a loose handle on a back door or as large as new hardware for a storefront and the apartments upstairs. The same door can need several kinds of work over the years, too: a repair one winter, a rekey when the tenants change, a new lock when the old one finally wears out.

Services and the Jobs They Cover

Each kind of work covers a familiar set of problems and the hardware that goes with them.

Kinds of Lock Work and Their Typical Jobs

Kind of Job	Typical Jobs	Page Link
Fixing a lock or door part that has failed	Keys broken off in the lock, deadbolts that will not throw, sticking locks, sagging handles, worn cylinders, frames damaged in a forced entry	Repairs
New hardware, or old hardware swapped out	Deadbolts, keypad and smart locks, mortise locks, high-security cylinders, panic bars and exit devices, replacement car keys and fobs	Installations and Replacements
Keeping locks working and keys under control	Lubrication and adjustment, door and latch alignment, security checks of every entry point, rekeying, key duplication, spare key sets	Maintenance and Inspections
Locked out, or a door that will not secure	Lockouts from a home, a car or a business, keys snapped in the lock, locks damaged in a break-in, lost keys that mean changing the locks	Urgent Service
Locks on houses, apartments and condos	Rekeying on move-in, replacing lost keys, deadbolt upgrades, smart locks, front and back door repairs, sliding doors and windows that need securing	Home and Apartment Locks
Keys, fobs and locks on a vehicle	Spare key cutting, lost keys, transponder key programming, key fob replacement, broken keys in a door or ignition, keys locked in the car	Car Keys

Which Service Fits Your Situation?

Each situation is matched to the kind of work that covers it.

What is going on?

Locked out Key broken in the lock Want a new or upgraded lock Rekey after moving in Car key lost or not working Check my security

Show the Matching Service

Pick the situation closest to yours, then press the button.

Listing Every Job at Once

Lock work often comes in clusters. A move brings a rekey and a few spare keys; a break-in can mean a new strike, a repaired frame and a new cylinder; a shop that changes staff may want its locks rekeyed while the rear exit device gets a look. Listing every job in the same request, with the doors or vehicles involved, lets the visit be planned around all of them.

Rental Turnovers and Business Doors

Landlords and property managers call for lock changes between tenants and for key duplication across several units, the routine of a walk-up where leases turn over every year. A written record of which key opens which door makes the next turnover simpler.

Businesses rely on commercial rekeying, master key systems, and panic bar and exit device hardware. A master key system gives each person a key to their own doors and the owner one key for all of them, so a lost staff key means rekeying the doors it opened rather than the whole building. Panic bars and exit devices, which let people out of a rear door with one push while it stays locked from outside, come under installations and replacements.

Cost and Past Jobs

Once the kind of work is clear, two questions tend to follow: how large the job is, and what the finished hardware looks like.

The Lock, the Door and the Timing

No two lock jobs are quite the same size. The type and grade of the lock, the door it sits in, the number of locks, any parts that have to be sourced and whether the call is urgent or planned all change the work involved, as set out under what affects the cost.

Finished Hardware Up Close

Recent work includes a keypad lever lock on a gray steel door, a hook-bolt lock in an aluminum storefront door and electric strikes set into steel and oak door frames. Close-up photos of real hardware help when choosing between a lever, a keypad and a plain deadbolt for a similar door.