Change or rekey
Change or Rekey Locks
We fit locks to the household, not the other way round. A family with young children wants something a small hand can operate from inside. A couple who travel want a code for the house sitter. Those preferences shape which residential options we suggest.
Which one do I need?
- Three months of renovation are finally done.Lock Rekeying
- You bought a keypad deadbolt online and pulled the old one off, only to find the hole in the door is a different size and the bolt latch sits at a backset the new kit does not list.Deadbolt Installation
- The lever on the side door droops toward the floor and rattles in your hand.Lock Replacement & Upgrade
- The interior bedroom doors on the second floor have the original mortise latches, and none of them close any more.Vintage Mortise Lock Service
- There 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.Smart Lock Installation
- The gate to the side yard used to close with a satisfying click.Gate & Building Entry Locks
Change or Rekey Locks
New keys for the locks you have, or new locks where the hardware has worn out: rekeying, replacement, deadbolts, smart locks and older mortise hardware.
Lock Rekeying
Reading the keyway on each lock
Whether several doors can share one key depends on the cylinders, not the number of doors. Each lock has a keyway, the profile a key must match to enter the plug, and only cylinders with the same keyway can be pinned to the same key. The locksmith looks at the face of each cylinder and the profile of each existing key to sort the house into families.
Most homes carry one or two of the common residential keyways, sometimes with an odd one on a side door or a padlock. Anything from a different family is noted so you can decide whether to swap that cylinder for a matching one and bring the door onto the house key.