Change or rekey
Change or Rekey Locks
Residential services are for the everyday building you live in, whether owned or rented. They range from cutting a spare and fixing a stiff cylinder to replacing every lock after a move, and we will always suggest the smaller job where it does what you need.
Which one do I need?
- Your basement tenant has given notice, and a new one arrives on the first.Lock Rekeying
- The front door has a handsome lever and a keyed knob, and that is all.Deadbolt Installation
- 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.Lock Replacement & Upgrade
- The 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 moves.Vintage Mortise Lock Service
- Arthritis has made the small house key hard to grip and turn, especially with gloves on in January.Smart Lock Installation
- The padlock on the side gate has gone stiff every winter for three years running, and this year the key simply will not turn past the first few pins.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
Smart locks and user-rekeyable cylinders
Modern hardware gets its own look. Many keypad or app-controlled deadbolts have a conventional override cylinder behind a cover that can be rekeyed to the house key so the backup key is not a stranger on your ring, though some models are key-free and use an external battery backup instead. Some residential cylinders are designed to be reset by the owner with a small tool and a working key; the locksmith checks whether one has been reset correctly and whether it accepts the new key.
Where a smart lock is being kept, codes are reviewed at the same time so a departed keyholder's code goes the way of their key.