Living in a building in Toronto means two kinds of doors: the suite door you control and the common doors the building manages. We service both, working within house rules on the outer hardware and giving your own door a cylinder, strike and closer that suit how the unit is actually used.
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Whether you own a home in Toronto, run a shop or manage a few rental units, the lock services here are organised the way people actually ask for them. Start with the problem you have today, and read on to see what else on the door might deserve a look while a locksmith is already there.
Broken Key Extraction, Panic & Exit Hardware, Transponder Key Programming, Commercial Rekeying…
Whether you own a home in Toronto, run a shop or manage a few rental units, the lock services here are organised the way people actually ask for them. Start with the problem you have today, and read on to see what else on the door might deserve a look while a locksmith is already there.
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ServiceBroken Key Extraction
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ServiceLost Keys — Same-Visit Rekey
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ServiceHigh Security Locks
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ServiceCommercial Rekeying
High security locks answer the question most people eventually ask about their door: who else has a key, and how hard would it be to get past it? Rated cylinders, heavy deadbolts, reinforced strikes and keys that cannot be copied without your say-so.
Layer 1The key
You jiggle the key a little and the old deadbolt opens even when the cut does not look quite right. If your worn key can do that, you wonder what a stranger with the right tools could do.
Layer 2The cylinder
The brass handleset has gone blotchy and green where the winter salt reaches it, and the coating on the deadbolt is lifting in flakes. It still locks, but it looks tired beside the fresh paint on the door.
Layer 3The bolt and strike
The front door has a handsome lever and a keyed knob, and that is all. Nothing above it.
Layer 4The door and frame
There is a hole where the cylinder used to be. Somebody twisted it out of the deadbolt with a wrench, and now the empty bore looks straight through to the kitchen, with the bolt still stuck in the frame.
High Security Locks. You jiggle the key a little and the old deadbolt opens even when the cut does not look quite right.
Request a visitStay with the door if you can, or ask a neighbour to keep an eye on it, and call. When the locksmith arrives the fragment is removed and securing the door comes ahead of everything else, so you can leave. If the cylinder needs more than a clean, a replacement goes on during that visit rather than leaving the door on a latch overnight.
Winter is a normal time for this work. Cylinders come off the door and are pinned in the van, out of the wind, and go back on with a dry graphite or PTFE lubricant that sheds moisture rather than holding it the way oil does. A cleaned, dry-lubricated cylinder is less likely to freeze than the gritty one it replaced. Keeping a storm door closed over the main lock helps through freeze-thaw weeks.
The locksmith confirms that the person ordering the work is entitled to change the locks: the owner, a tenant with the landlord's agreement, or a property or facilities manager for a business. Photo identification and something linking you to the address usually settle it, and for a company a letter or a call to the named contact does the same. It protects you as much as anyone, since the same check stops someone else from changing your locks.
Yes, if the cylinders share a keyway or can be fitted with ones that do. Keying everything alike is popular with small shops because staff carry one key and spares are simple. The trade-off is that one key then opens the cash room as readily as the front door. Many businesses choose a middle path: the doors everyone uses on one key, the sensitive rooms on another, and an owner's master that opens both.
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