Fobs, keypads and card readers are only worthwhile when the doors, closers and wiring behind them are sound. We design small access systems for offices, clinics and multi-unit buildings, install them cleanly, and hand over a system your staff can actually manage.
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Plenty of people call us slightly embarrassed, as if losing a key or snapping one in the cold were a personal failing. It is not; brass wears, pockets have holes, and locks age. We would much rather you tell us exactly what happened, including the bit where you tried a screwdriver, because the true story tells us which tools to bring and how to put it right.
— Humberstone Lock Services
Hours
Locksmith services
We split our work into emergency, residential, automotive and commercial, but plenty of jobs sit between them. A landlord's rekey is residential work done with commercial thinking. A car key made in a driveway is automotive work with a home visit. Ask, and we will place it.
Lockouts
The emergency pages describe openings for homes, shops and vehicles, extraction of snapped keys, freeing locks that have seized, and re-securing a door after forced entry. Every visit starts with an identity check, because entry work protects the people inside as much as the person outside.
Change or rekey
Keys multiply. One for the front, one for the side, another for the garage, a padlock on the shed.
High security
Upgrading to high security often does not mean new locks. Many quality cylinders retrofit into the deadbolt or lever you already have, so the door keeps its look and gains a mechanism that resists picking, bumping and drilling.
Commercial
From a back door that never quite latches to a keying plan for a whole building, commercial services deal with the practical side of running a premises. We explain the choices, work around your schedule and leave a clear record of who holds what.
Port Colborne
Lock Rekeying
Every copy of your house key seems to work a little differently. One needs a jiggle, another sticks halfway, and the original wore down years ago. The lock itself is fine; the keys have drifted so far from each other that none fits cleanly.
Lock RekeyingUsuallyAdd a proper deadbolt above it.
WhyA bolt into a reinforced strike is what actually holds a door; the knob just keeps it closed.
UsuallyRe-fit the hardware and repair the bore.
WhyStripped holes can be plugged and redrilled, so the same lock sits tight again.
UsuallyA keypad deadbolt with a key override.
WhyEach family member gets a code, guests get a temporary one, and a mechanical key remains for the day the batteries die.
UsuallyLost Keys — Same-Visit Rekey
WhyA missing key is also the moment a household can stop carrying four.
UsuallyLock Rekeying
WhyOne key for the whole house is a common request and usually achievable.
UsuallyLock Replacement & Upgrade
WhyA replacement lock has to fit holes that already exist, and that is where the visit begins.
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High security locks are cylinders and deadbolts designed to defeat the methods used against ordinary doors. Inside the cylinder a second locking mechanism, usually a sidebar released by finger pins or rotating pins, has to be satisfied at the same time as the normal pin stack, which is what stops…
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We look at the cylinder, the bolt, the strike, the hinges and any glass nearby, and say plainly which parts are sound and which are thin.
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A graded deadbolt with a patented cylinder for most homes, rated cylinders and heavier lock bodies for businesses. You pick the doors and the depth.
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Cylinders go in, strikes are screwed into the framing, keys are cut from code, and the system is registered so only you can order more.
Niagara, Ontario
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2021 census · what it means at the door
80%Older homes
About 80% of homes in Port Colborne were built in 1980 or earlier, according to the 2021 Census.
Old brass keys wear thin, and a key that has bent for years finally lets go in a cold cylinder. In older housing stock this is a regular call, so the locksmith is ready to extract the piece, check the cylinder and cut a new key from the code.
71%Mostly houses
Single-detached houses make up about 71% of homes in Port Colborne (2021 Census).
Where homes are mostly detached, patio and sliding doors deserve attention alongside the hinged ones. Auxiliary locks, pin locks and better latches for sliders are routine additions that a locksmith brings on the same visit as the front door work.
No. The blank for a patented keyway is distributed only through the manufacturer's network to locksmiths who hold the system, and the side milling or angled cuts need a machine set up for that line. A kiosk would have neither the blank nor the cut. Extra keys come through your locksmith, cut from code, once an authorised person has approved the order. That routine is a small inconvenience compared with never knowing who has a copy.
A restricted keyway is one the manufacturer supplies to a limited set of dealers, so blanks are harder to obtain but not legally protected. A patented key design is protected by a patent for a fixed term, and making or selling the blank without permission is unlawful during that time. Patented systems give the firmer control; restricted ones give a useful step up. The locksmith explains which your chosen line uses and when any patent expires.
Because that is where a kicked door fails. The bolt is strong, but it sits in a pocket in the jamb held by a thin plate and short screws, and a boot splits the wood around it. A reinforced strike or box strike fastened with three-inch screws into the wall framing spreads the blow along the frame. It is the least visible part of the upgrade and often the one that does the most.
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.
On-site assessment preferred
Call about rekeying your new home. Send a photo of the lock.
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