Lockouts
Lockout Services
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.
Which one do I need?
- After a week of humid weather the back door has swollen in its frame.Home Lockout Service
- A cook stepped into the alley with the recycling and the rear door swung shut behind him.Business Lockout Service
- That key had been bending a little for years, and you kept straightening it.Broken Key Extraction
- There is a hole where the cylinder used to be.Break-In Damage Lock Repair
- The old mortise lock on the front door of the house turns the key halfway and stops with a dull clunk.Seized & Jammed Lock Opening
- Your purse was taken from the back of a chair at a restaurant.Lost Keys — Same-Visit Rekey
Lockout Services
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.
Home Lockout Service
Is it the lock or the door?
A surprising number of lockouts are really door problems. The locksmith checks how the door sits in its frame: whether it has dropped on tired hinges, swollen with summer humidity, or shrunk in dry winter air so that the bolt no longer lines up with its pocket in the strike plate. A hand on the door while the key is turned often reveals the bolt binding against the strike rather than a failed cylinder.
Sorting this out first matters because a door that is pinched in its frame needs pressure relieved, not a lock picked, and the fix afterwards is a strike adjustment or a hinge screw rather than new hardware.