Every service here is something we do week in, week out, not a line added to look thorough. If you would rather talk than read, the phone number at the top goes straight to someone who can tell you whether the job is a small fix or a planned visit.
Hamilton
Locksmith services
Lockout Services
Being outside a locked door with a phone in your hand is the moment to call, not to try a credit card or a…
- Home Lockout ServiceThe keypad on the smart lock blinks once and goes dark.
- 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…
- Broken Key ExtractionThat key had been bending a little for years, and you kept straightening it.
- Break-In Damage Lock RepairThe back door looks closed until you touch it.
- Seized & Jammed Lock OpeningEvery time you pull the key out of the side door it comes away gritty.
- Lost Keys — Same-Visit RekeyYou were shovelling the driveway after dark and the ring must have slid out of your coat pocket somewhere under a metre of snow.
Change or Rekey Locks
Home services range from a single lock repair to rekeying every door and adding a smart lock at the entrance.
- Lock RekeyingThree months of renovation are finally done.
- Deadbolt InstallationSomeone tried the door last winter.
- Lock Replacement & UpgradeThe lever on the side door droops toward the floor and rattles in your hand.
- Vintage Mortise Lock ServiceThe knob flops loose on its spindle and never springs back to level.
- Smart Lock InstallationYour mother still lives on her own, and the personal support worker, the pharmacy delivery and two siblings all need to get in on…
- Gate & Building Entry LocksA visitor buzzes from the panel downstairs, someone presses the button by the door, and nothing happens.
- Mailbox Lock ReplacementThe mail slot on the shop's exterior wall has a small compartment lock that a former employee still has a key to, months after…
High Security Locks
Deadbolts differ in how far the bolt travels, how hard the bolt is, whether the cylinder guard spins free…
- Safe Opening & Combination ChangeThe pharmacy's drop safe has a keypad that finally lost power for good, and the little override key that was supposed to live…
- Safe Installation & ServicingThe till drawer has been holding two days of cash because the new shop never got a proper safe, and a locked drawer under the…
- High Security LocksYou jiggle the key a little and the old deadbolt opens even when the cut does not look quite right.
Commercial Locks
This group covers premises rather than homes: lockouts at the shop, rekeys after staff changes, master key…
- Commercial RekeyingA key turned up in the parking lot with the shop's name on its fob.
- Master Key System DesignAfter a busy shift the manager counts the keys coming back in and loses track of who still has one.
- Access Control InstallationYou just leased the empty unit next door and want the new tenant to open their own suite without a key to yours, to the loading…
- Panic & Exit HardwareAfter the fit-out, the gym floor now holds more people than the old office space ever did, and the exit door at the back still…
- Commercial-Grade Lock ReplacementOvernight someone forced the back door, and the cylinder face is scarred, the metal around the strike has pulled loose from the…
Car Keys
Older vehicles with plain mechanical keys are the simplest: read the lock, cut the key, done.
- Car Lockout ServiceYou stepped out at the pump to pay inside, the passenger locked their door out of habit, and the driver's door caught behind you.
- Car Key ReplacementThe engine cranks, catches for a second and dies, and a small key-shaped light keeps blinking on the dash.
- Spare Car Key DuplicationA car sits at the cottage all season, and the only key to it lives on a ring three hours away in the city.
- Key Fob ProgrammingThe remote clicks the way it always has, but the vehicle no longer locks, unlocks or answers with its usual chirp.
- Transponder Key ProgrammingThe blade snapped off flush with the door lock last winter, and the shop that cut a replacement only matched the metal shape.
- Ignition Lock RepairThe key slides in fine and turns without any resistance at all, and the dash lights flicker, but nothing catches.
- Vehicle Lock RepairThe car came with a second key that grinds and catches in the rear door, unlike the smooth key you use every day on the front two.
- Motorcycle & Scooter KeysAfter a winter under a cover, the steering lock will not budge.