Lockouts
Lockout Services
If the key will not turn, the key is in two pieces, or the door was kicked and no longer closes, this is the section. Each page describes how we open, extract or secure, and what we check before calling the job finished.
Which one do I need?
- After a week of humid weather the back door has swollen in its frame.Home Lockout Service
- The key went in stiffly, turned a quarter of the way, and came out in two pieces.Business Lockout Service
- Overnight the deadbolt froze, and this morning the key would only turn partway.Broken Key Extraction
- You came home to find the front door standing open.Break-In Damage Lock Repair
- It is the coldest morning of the winter and the key goes halfway into the side door and stops.Seized & Jammed Lock Opening
- The renovation wrapped up in the spring.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
Reading the lock itself
Every lock announces what it is to someone who knows where to look. The shape of the keyway, the maker's mark on the face, the presence of a thumb-turn or a second keyed side, and whether the door has a separate deadbolt above a latching knob all tell the locksmith which family of hardware they are dealing with. A residential pin-tumbler cylinder, a mortise case in a century home, a restricted keyway with security pins and a keypad lock with a hidden override each respond to different techniques.
Identifying the lock correctly before touching it is what makes a clean, non-destructive opening the usual outcome.