Locksmith
What we do
Here is the full range of what we do for houses, businesses and vehicles across Kawartha Lakes. Some jobs take one visit and a few tools; others are worth planning. Each page tells you which it is likely to be and how to prepare.
Lockout Services
When you phone about an emergency we want three things: where the door is, what it is doing, and whether anyone is inside or at risk.
Home Lockout ServiceSomeone pushed the privacy button on the bathroom door and pulled it shut behind them, leaving the room locked and empty.
Business Lockout ServiceYou signed the lease on the unit last week and the landlord handed over possession, but the previous tenant's locks are still on both doors and no keys came with them.
Broken Key ExtractionOvernight the deadbolt froze, and this morning the key would only turn partway.
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 RekeyA roommate moved out on bad terms and says the key was left on the counter.
Change or Rekey Locks
Living well behind a locked door means never thinking about it.
Lock RekeyingYour basement tenant has given notice, and a new one arrives on the first.
Deadbolt InstallationThe 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.
Lock Replacement & UpgradeThree teenagers, a dog walker, a cleaner and one house key that keeps going missing.
Vintage Mortise Lock ServiceYou bought a house with its original hardware and a bag of loose keys.
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 different days.
Gate & Building Entry LocksA visitor buzzes from the panel downstairs, someone presses the button by the door, and nothing happens.
Mailbox Lock ReplacementSomeone tried to pry the little door on the mailbox open with a screwdriver, and though the mail sitting inside is untouched, the lock now sits crooked in its hole and the key barely catches when it is turned.
High Security Locks
For a business, high security means the stockroom, the cash office and the server closet hold whatever happens, and a departing manager's key cannot be quietly copied.
Safe Opening & Combination ChangeThe 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.
Safe Installation & ServicingThe 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.
High Security LocksThe pharmacy stockroom, the server closet or the cash office is protected by the same ordinary cylinder as the staff washroom.
Commercial Locks
A safe is only useful if you can open it and no one else can.
Commercial RekeyingYou have just signed the lease on a unit the previous tenant ran for a decade.
Master Key System DesignA property manager taking over a small commercial building inherits a shoebox of keys with no labels and no chart.
Access Control InstallationAnother employee left and the keys never came back.
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 has the same turn-lock it had when the room held desks.
Commercial-Grade Lock ReplacementHead office wants every branch keyed alike under one system, and half the locations are still running whatever lockset the original contractor happened to install years ago.
Car Keys
Automotive work is not only for cars that will not open.
Car Lockout ServiceYou pressed the fob at the office door and nothing happened.
Car Key ReplacementThe car is yours now, but somebody else still holds a key to it.
Spare Car Key DuplicationThe proximity fob has ridden in a pocket for years, the range feels shorter than it used to, and a dashboard warning mentioned a battery a while back.
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 ProgrammingA second driver has joined the household, and the one existing key gets handed back and forth between two schedules that rarely line up.
Ignition Lock RepairThe key slides in fine and turns without any resistance at all, and the dash lights flicker, but nothing catches.
Vehicle Lock RepairYour key turns smoothly in the driver's door, the same as it always has, but the button underneath stays down and the latch never releases.
Motorcycle & Scooter KeysThe dash lights come on, the starter cranks, and the engine simply refuses to catch, though the same key has run this bike since it was new.