Oakville
Locksmith services
Lockout Services
Getting in is only half of an emergency visit.
- Home Lockout ServiceAfter a week of humid weather the back door has swollen in its frame.
- 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 ExtractionThe padlock on the shed has been stiff all summer.
- Break-In Damage Lock RepairThe shop's aluminum door has a bent meeting stile and the hookbolt is jammed half out.
- Seized & Jammed Lock OpeningIt is the coldest morning of the winter and the key goes halfway into the side door and stops.
- Lost Keys — Same-Visit RekeyYou let a part-time employee go on Friday.
Change or Rekey Locks
Living well behind a locked door means never thinking about it.
- Lock RekeyingYour roommate moved out last weekend.
- Deadbolt InstallationThe front door has a handsome lever and a keyed knob, and that is all.
- Lock Replacement & UpgradeThe keys the seller handed over came in a sandwich bag: six unlabelled copies for two locks of different makes from different…
- Vintage Mortise Lock ServiceThe old skeleton key still fits the keyhole, but it now needs a jiggle, a lean on the door and a little luck before the bolt…
- Smart Lock InstallationThe deadbolt is a stiff double-cylinder model that needs a key from both sides, and in the dark hallway finding it is a nuisance.
- 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…
High Security Locks
Homeowners often come to high security after a scare, whether their own or a neighbour's.
- Safe Opening & Combination ChangeA customer's rifle safe at the range has a dial that simply will not respond to the combination written on the sales receipt from…
- Safe Installation & ServicingA dinner service ends with a stack of bills and a handful of credit slips, and right now they sit in an unlocked cash box on a…
- High Security LocksA colleague showed you a video of a lock being opened with a bump key in a few seconds.
Commercial Locks
Door hardware in a business is part of how the day runs.
- Commercial RekeyingTwo people left over the summer and the keys they handed back came up one short.
- Master Key System DesignA new hire at the shop gets handed whatever spare key happens to be in the drawer, and it turns out to open the stockroom, the…
- Access Control InstallationThe back door of the shop runs on one key, and by now it lives on six different rings: yours, two managers, a cleaner, a supplier…
- Panic & Exit HardwareA padlock went on the stockroom's back door years ago for security and nobody has thought about it since, until the walkthrough…
- Commercial-Grade Lock ReplacementA new tenant moved into the unit next door, and the property manager just found three different cylinders on three doors, none of…
Car Keys
Motorcycles and scooters come with their own quirks: seat locks, steering locks, fuel cap locks and small…
- Car Lockout ServiceThe rental van came with one key.
- Car Key ReplacementYou bought the car privately and it came with a single key on a shoelace.
- Spare Car Key DuplicationA teenager just passed a driving test and reasonably wants a key of their own rather than negotiating over the family's single…
- Key Fob ProgrammingA replacement fob just arrived in its box, shiny and untouched.
- Transponder Key ProgrammingThe remote fob has gone silent, the doors won't unlock with a button press, and the little emergency blade tucked inside it has…
- 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 KeysThe dash lights come on, the starter cranks, and the engine simply refuses to catch, though the same key has run this bike since…