If Someone forced the door and the frame is split.
Then Frame repair, a new strike and a fresh cylinder.
The wood is rebuilt before new hardware goes in, so the door locks tonight.
Locked out of a home or business, a key snapped in the lock or a lock that has seized: entry with the least damage, then the door secured again.
Lockouts
Some callers apologise for phoning about a lockout. There is no need. Locking yourself out is ordinary, keys snap because brass wears, and locks jam because weather and time act on them. Our job is to put it right without a lecture.
Home Lockout ServiceIt is minus fifteen, the wind is coming across the driveway, and the key will only go halfway into the deadbolt.
Business Lockout ServiceAfter last night's power flicker the card reader beside the clinic door shows nothing.
Broken Key ExtractionA roommate tried to help with tweezers, then by gluing the other half to it.
Break-In Damage Lock RepairThe shop's aluminum door has a bent meeting stile and the hookbolt is jammed half out.
Seized & Jammed Lock OpeningThe key slides all the way in, exactly as it has for years, and then refuses to turn in either direction.
Lost Keys — Same-Visit RekeyYour purse was taken from the back of a chair at a restaurant.
Other work
- Change or Rekey LocksNew keys for the locks you have, or new locks where the hardware has worn out: rekeying, replacement…
- High Security LocksCylinders and deadbolts built to resist picking, bumping and drilling, keys that cannot be copied without…
- Commercial LocksLocks for shops, offices and buildings: rekeying at turnover, commercial-grade hardware, exit devices, master…
- Car KeysCar, van and motorcycle keys: replacements, spares, fob and transponder programming, ignition and door-lock…
Which fix fits?
Tap a situation. The answer opens here.
If They came in through a window, but your spare keys were on the hook.
Then Rekey every lock those keys operate.
Anything those keys open needs new pins: house, garage and shed, and a taken car key should be deprogrammed. Lock Rekeying
If There are fresh tool marks around the lock but nobody got in.
Then A security check of that door and the others.
We look at what held and suggest reinforcements that make a second attempt pointless.