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Person holding a door-handle and latch assembly at a worktable outside a glass entrance, with additional handles and tools laid out. — Commercial Rekeying, Georgian Heights

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Commercial Rekeying in Georgian Heights

A key turned up in the parking lot with the shop's name on its fob. It came back to you, which is lucky, but it means keys are leaving the building on rings you have never seen, and the shop's locks have not changed since opening day.

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Commercial Rekeying

In plain words

A business hands out keys as people join and rarely gets every one back as people leave. Rekeying resets that count. Instead of guessing how many copies of the front-door key exist, the cylinders are repinned so only the newly cut set works, and those keys are numbered and signed for. Where turnover is steady, the locksmith can fit interchangeable cores, which let a manager swap a core with a control key in a couple of minutes when someone departs, so the reset becomes routine rather than an event. Either way you end up with a premises where the keyholder list matches the staff list.

Sound familiar?

The office has been reshuffled twice since the locks were last touched. Reception can open the server room, the warehouse crew has a key to accounting, and the chart that once explained who could open what has not been seen since the move.

How the visit goes

Georgian Heights

How the visit goes

  1. A walk of every door and lock

    The locksmith walks the premises with you and lists every opening that should be in the plan: the customer entrance, the receiving door, offices, stockroom, cash room, server closet, the mailbox, cabinets, and any padlocks on gates, compounds or roll shutters. Each lock is identified by type, since a mortise cylinder in an aluminum storefront door, a key-in-lever set on an office, a rim cylinder on a back door and an interchangeable core in a stockroom each come out and go back in differently. The keyway and the maker's mark are noted, and the condition of each cylinder is checked, so the list from the walk is what the quote and the work are built on.

  2. Door by door, never a gap

    The sequence agreed at the assessment is followed on the day. The locksmith finishes one opening entirely before beginning the next: cylinder out, repinned, refitted, tested with both the new key and the old, and locked again. Only then does the next door come apart. The main entrance is usually left for last and done while someone from the business is present, so there is never a moment when the premises has a door that will not lock. Staff who are working during the visit are handed their new key before the door they use is changed, and a short note goes to anyone off shift about where to collect theirs.

  3. Adding a door without starting over

    The pinning records kept from the visit mean the system can grow. When the business takes the unit next door, adds a storage cage or replaces a worn lever set, the new cylinder is pinned into an unused combination on the existing chart and handed a key from the right group, and nobody already carrying a key notices anything changed. That is the value of leaving reserve combinations in a master system rather than using them all up on day one. Keep the locksmith's reference number for the system with the chart, mention it when you call, and a single new door becomes a short visit instead of a fresh plan.

Commercial Rekeying

In the van

  • Mortise cylinder set screws and cams
  • Standard and restricted key blanks
  • Key gauge and decoder
  • Master pins
  • Cylinder removal and spanner tools

What affects the quote

Same fees day, night or weekend

  1. 1Landlord and base-building coordination

    Suite doors that must accept both your key and the landlord's master, or work that needs the property manager on site, add coordination the quote allows for.

  2. 2Doors out of alignment

    A door whose cam, strike or closer needs adjusting so the freshly rekeyed cylinder throws the bolt fully is corrected during the visit, and that adjustment is a separate item.

  3. 3How many keys are cut

    Each key cut to code and stamped is counted into the quote. Two per door group for a small shop and forty for a warehouse shift are different numbers.

What to have ready

0 of 3 ready

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Commercial Rekeying: questions

We lost a master key. Does the whole building need doing?

Only the cylinders that master opened, which the keying chart identifies. If the lost key was the top master, that is every lock in the system; if it was a departmental master, it is that department's doors. Where no chart exists, the locksmith reads the cylinders first to establish what the key reached. The remaining doors, and any keys that never opened them, are left exactly as they are.

How often should a business change its keys as a matter of routine?

There is no fixed interval. Rekey on events rather than on a calendar: a key not returned, a lease change, a break-in, a renovation crew finished, or a key count that no longer matches the register. Businesses with a good register and a restricted keyway often go years between rekeys because nothing prompts one. A yearly check of the register against the keys on the hook is the habit that tells you when the time has come.

Will rekeying affect our alarm system or card readers?

Mechanical rekeying leaves electronics alone: alarm panels, card readers and keypads keep their codes and credentials. What changes is the list of people holding keys, and it is worth updating the alarm company's keyholder list and retiring the codes of anyone who has left at the same time, since keys and codes usually walk out together. Where a door has both a card reader and a keyed override, the override cylinder is rekeyed with the rest.

Commercial Locks

Two rows of lock cylinders on a metal surface with keys and colored key tags in front. — Master Key System Design, Georgian Heights
Master Key System DesignA new hire at the shop gets handed whatever spare key happens to be in the drawer, and it turns out to open the stockroom, the back office…

Commercial Rekeying near you

Lock work in Georgian Heights is rarely just one thing. A lockout often reveals a worn cylinder; a rekey is a good moment to fix a strike that never lined up. The services below are described one at a time, but a locksmith at your door will happily point out anything else worth doing while he is there.

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