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.
Most calls start with a question rather than a decision: is this lock worth saving, should the whole house be rekeyed, does a smart lock make sense on an older door. We would rather answer that properly than sell you a part. We look at the hardware, the door and how you use it, then lay out the choices and their trade-offs in plain words.
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 ServiceIt is minus fifteen, the wind is coming across the driveway, and the key will only go halfway into the deadbolt.
Business Lockout ServiceA cook stepped into the alley with the recycling and the rear door swung shut behind him.
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 RepairThe back door looks closed until you touch it.
Seized & Jammed Lock OpeningThe key turns a full circle without any resistance and the deadbolt stays exactly where it is.
Lost Keys — Same-Visit RekeyYour purse was taken from the back of a chair at a restaurant.
Lock RekeyingYour roommate moved out last weekend.
Deadbolt InstallationThe bolt on the front door is keyed on both sides.
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 ServiceThe knob flops loose on its spindle and never springs back to level.
Smart Lock InstallationYou have just taken possession of the house and the previous owners handed over a keypad deadbolt with a code nobody wrote down and an app account you cannot get into.
Gate & Building Entry LocksA visitor buzzes from the panel downstairs, someone presses the button by the door, and nothing happens.
Mailbox Lock ReplacementAfter a winter of road spray and salt, the little lock on the mailbox door has gone stiff, then gritty, then almost immovable.
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 RekeyThe 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.
Lock Replacement & UpgradeThe back door has a deadbolt in name only: a short bolt, a thin brass strike held by two little screws, and a jamb you can flex with your palm. It was fine for a builder's showing. It is not fine for a laneway.
Deadbolt InstallationHigh security
Our high security visits start at the kitchen table with a question about what you are protecting and who you are worried about. From that we choose a level: a solid graded deadbolt for one household, a full restricted system for another.
You run a home office with client files and equipment, and your insurer has asked what kind of lock is on the door.
The 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.
The bolt on the front door is keyed on both sides.
The back door looks closed until you touch it.
Commercial
Running a business means knowing who can get in when you are not there. The commercial services are different ways of answering that: rekey to reset it, master key to organise it, access control to log it, and a safe to protect what matters most inside.
High security
The bookkeeper who set the office safe's code retired in a hurry, and the float cash for tomorrow's registers is sitting behind a keypad nobody else in the building can operate.
The till drawer has been holding two days of cash because the new shop never got a proper safe, and a locked drawer under the counter is the only thing standing between that cash and anyone who works late.
Sensible optionA patented cylinder in each exterior door, on one key.
WhyOld keys stop working and new ones cannot be copied without you.
Sensible optionA reinforced strike with long screws into the framing.
WhyThe bolt then ties into the studs, which is where kicked doors fail.
Sensible optionA rated cylinder and a controlled key for that door.
WhyOne numbered key, issued against a signature, in a cylinder that resists picks and drills.
Sensible optionSafe Opening & Combination Change
WhySafe opening favours the gentlest method that fits the particular safe and lock, with drilling kept as a later option rather than a first resort.
Sensible optionSafe Installation & Servicing
WhyFor a household bringing in its first real safe, the service covers everything between the empty spot on the floor and a working, anchored unit with a combination only the family knows.
Sensible optionHigh Security Locks
WhyHigh security locks are cylinders and deadbolts designed to defeat the methods used against ordinary doors.
Describe the property, the hardware and what has changed, and the visit starts from what you have seen.
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You tell us what is happening with the door, who has keys and what you would like to be different afterwards. We ask a few questions so we arrive with the right parts.
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We check how the door hangs, how the latch meets the strike and what the cylinder is doing before deciding anything. Then we explain what we found in plain words.
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We do the job we agreed, test every key and every position of the lock, tidy up and show you how it works before we leave.
York, Ontario
2021 Census
About 22% of homes in Whitchurch-Stouffville were built in 1980 or earlier, according to the 2021 Census.
Households in newer homes are often keen on keypads, fobs and phone-controlled locks. Standard doors make installation straightforward, and the locksmith spends more of the visit setting codes and pairing devices than on carpentry.
Single-detached houses make up about 74% of homes in Whitchurch-Stouffville (2021 Census).
Where homes are mostly detached, patio and sliding doors deserve attention alongside the hinged ones. Auxiliary locks, pin locks and better latches for sliders are routine additions that a locksmith brings on the same visit as the front door work.
Read the lease, because that is where the answer lives. Commercial tenancies are governed mostly by the lease itself, and many leases require the tenant to tell the landlord when locks change, to provide a key for emergencies, or to use the landlord's approved locksmith. Doors on the building's master system, such as corridor or service doors, are normally the landlord's to change. Bring the lease to the assessment and the locksmith will sort the doors accordingly.
Mechanical rekeying leaves electronics alone: alarm panels, card readers and keypads keep their codes and credentials. What changes is the list of people holding keys, and it is worth updating the alarm company's keyholder list and retiring the codes of anyone who has left at the same time, since keys and codes usually walk out together. Where a door has both a card reader and a keyed override, the override cylinder is rekeyed with the rest.
Between tenants is the ideal moment: the departing tenant has handed back their keys, the new one has not yet received any, and the unit is empty for the work. The incoming tenant then starts on keys nobody else has held, and the landlord's own master or emergency key is set up at the same time. Where a lease has ended in dispute, the locksmith asks to see the paperwork before changing locks on a unit that still holds a tenant's goods.
It depends on what you have. If the deadbolt is a good heavy unit that throws a full inch into a proper strike, a high security cylinder can replace the ordinary one and the rest stays. If the deadbolt is light, worn or throws a short bolt, a new graded deadbolt with a hardened bolt is the sensible base and the high security cylinder goes into that. The assessment tells you which, door by door.
The van that comes to Whitchurch-Stouffville carries what the job is likely to need: cylinders in the common finishes, pinning kits, strike plates in several depths, blanks for house and vehicle keys, and the small screws that always seem to be missing. Being stocked means the work is finished in one visit and you can compare real parts at the door rather than photos on a screen.
