A family with teenagers, a couple who travel, a home-based business with clients at the door: each needs something different from its locks. We ask how the house is used before suggesting hardware, so the result fits your routine instead of fighting it.
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A family with teenagers, a couple who travel, a home-based business with clients at the door: each needs something different from its locks. We ask how the house is used before suggesting hardware, so the result fits your routine instead of fighting it.
Older houses around here have older doors, and older doors have their own logic. A mortise lock from the 1920s was built to be serviced, not thrown away, and a rim lock on a back porch may simply need cleaning and a new spring. We carry the parts and the patience to keep original hardware working, and we say so when replacement is the wiser route.
The key you reach for. The door you come home to. Good locksmith work begins with understanding how you use them.
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Locksmith services
Think of this page as a menu rather than a manual. You do not need to know the name of the part or the type of cylinder in your door. Pick the section that sounds closest, read what the visit looks like, and we will fill in the details together.
Home Lockout ServiceYou reached the front step with the groceries, patted every pocket twice, and the house key is simply not there.
Business Lockout ServiceYou signed the lease on the unit last week and the landlord handed over possession, but the previous tenant's locks are still on both doors and no keys came with them.
Broken Key ExtractionIn the parking lot your car key snapped in the driver's door.
Break-In Damage Lock RepairSomeone smashed the little window beside the door, reached in and turned the thumb-turn.
Seized & Jammed Lock OpeningEvery time you pull the key out of the side door it comes away gritty.
Lost Keys — Same-Visit RekeyThe renovation wrapped up in the spring.
Lock RekeyingYour basement tenant has given notice, and a new one arrives on the first.
Deadbolt InstallationThe back door has a deadbolt in name only: a short bolt, a thin brass strike held by two little screws, and a jamb you can flex with your palm.
Lock Replacement & UpgradeThe century home's original mortise lock takes a key the size of a spoon, sticks in humid weather and has worn its strike to a groove.
Vintage Mortise Lock ServiceSomeone painted the door years ago without removing the hardware.
Smart Lock InstallationYou have just taken possession of the house and the previous owners handed over a keypad deadbolt with a code nobody wrote down and an app account you cannot get into.
Gate & Building Entry LocksEvery time the courtyard gate closes, it slams hard enough to rattle the fence panels, and the deadlatch never quite drops into the keeper before the spring yanks it the rest of the way.
Mailbox Lock ReplacementYou've just moved in, and the mailbox compartment in the lobby came with a single key the previous owner mailed back separately, or never handed over at all.
The manager's key ring went missing somewhere between the bank and the car, and the master on it opened every door in the building. Until the cylinders are changed, whoever finds it is holding the run of the place.
Commercial RekeyingThe restricted keys you bought years ago are no longer restricted; the locksmith mentioned the patent has run out and blanks are sold openly. Your key control quietly stopped being control.
High Security LocksThe heavy glass door has been scraping the threshold for weeks. This morning the key turns, you can hear the bolt trying to move, but it is jammed hard in the strike and the door stays shut no matter how the handle is pulled.
Business Lockout ServiceHigh security
Rather than one purchase, think of high security as a run of decisions. Which doors, which cylinders, how many keys, who may order more, whether a safe belongs inside. We walk those decisions with you and write the answers down.
Your shop has had four employees leave in two years and each one had a key.
The century home's original mortise lock takes a key the size of a spoon, sticks in humid weather and has worn its strike to a groove.
The back door has a deadbolt in name only: a short bolt, a thin brass strike held by two little screws, and a jamb you can flex with your palm.
Someone smashed the little window beside the door, reached in and turned the thumb-turn.
Commercial
Doors with closers, exit devices, electric strikes and card readers have more parts to fail than a house door. When a commercial door stops behaving, we look at the whole assembly, find the part that is wrong and fix it without disturbing the rest.
High security
The pharmacy's drop safe has a keypad that finally lost power for good, and the little override key that was supposed to live behind the counter cannot be found anywhere.
A homeowner inherited a heavy old dial safe from a parent's house, moved it into the new place, and has no idea whether the bolt-work still works, whether the lock is sound, or how it should be anchored.
Sensible optionCheck power and pairing before replacing anything.
WhyDead batteries and dropped connections are the usual culprits; the mechanical key still gets you in meanwhile.
Sensible optionAdd a keyed patio bolt or a foot lock.
WhyA secondary bolt pins the door to the frame so it cannot be lifted or forced.
Sensible optionA keyed or privacy-grade interior lockset.
WhyInterior doors take lighter hardware; we match the rest of the house and the existing bore.
Sensible optionDeadbolt Installation
WhySteel-clad and fibreglass doors, the common insulated entry doors in newer subdivisions, take a deadbolt happily as long as they are cut for it properly.
Sensible optionLock Replacement & Upgrade
WhyWhen people say upgrade they usually mean a heavier lock, and there is a real scale behind that word.
Sensible optionVintage Mortise Lock Service
WhyKeys are the part of the job people expect to be impossible, and they rarely are.
Describe the property, the hardware and what has changed, and the visit starts from what you have seen.
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Before touching the lock we ask for identification or another way to show you live or work there. It protects you as much as anyone.
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Most doors can be picked or bypassed with no damage. We start there and only move to a firmer method if the lock leaves no other choice, explaining as we go.
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Once you are inside we check the lock still turns properly and that you have a key that works. If the lock was the reason you were stuck, we say so.
Ontario
2021 Census
About 58% of homes in Toronto were built in 1980 or earlier, according to the 2021 Census.
Older doors are usually thicker and made of solid wood, which is good news. They take a deadbolt well, hold longer strike screws, and reward reinforcement. The locksmith measures the thickness and backset so new hardware fits without fresh holes.
Single-detached houses make up about 23% of homes in Toronto (2021 Census).
Suite doors in buildings often have a viewer, a chain and a deadbolt fitted at different times. A locksmith can tidy that into one sound arrangement, with a properly set deadbolt and a strike that holds, without altering the door's face.
A restricted keyway uses a controlled key profile whose blanks are supplied only through an authorised channel; the credential required, a letter, a registered account, a dealer agreement or a key card, depends on the system. Rekeying such a cylinder is routine work with the right pin kit. For a household that has just lost a key and wants the next one to be truly countable, it is a sensible upgrade for the main doors, and it can be fitted during the same visit.
It asks; it does not compel. The stamp is a request that a key-cutting counter may or may not honour, and manufacturers say as much. Real control comes from a restricted keyway, whose blanks are issued only through authorised channels against a key card, or simply from knowing how many keys exist and who holds them. A rekey resets that count to a number you chose.
Yes. Those cylinders let an owner change the key with a small learn tool, but only while a working key is in hand. Without one, a design such as Kwikset SmartKey is removed and placed in its own reset fixture, returning it to a blank state; other cylinder types are rekeyed by their own method instead. A new key is then set and the lock goes back on. It is a few extra minutes rather than a replacement.
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.
Landlords and property managers in Toronto get a partner who understands turnover. We rekey between tenants, keep the unit keys under one master so you carry a single ring, fit hardware that survives heavy use, and note what was done on each door. When a tenant loses a key at an awkward hour, we already know the building.
