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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, Wasaga Beach

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Commercial Rekeying

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

Taking over a commercial unit is the moment to make the locks yours. The keys handed across at signing are only the ones the previous occupant remembered; cleaners, suppliers and former staff may still carry others. Rekeying every cylinder your lease gives you control of gives you a clean start on day one, with keys cut for your team and a chart of which door each one opens. The locksmith also clears up the odds and ends that come with a new lease: a padlock with no key, a mailbox lock seized since the last tenant. You open knowing exactly who can get in.

Sound familiar?

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.

How the visit goes

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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. Retiring the old keys

    The job is finished when the old keys are proven dead, not when the new ones work. At every rekeyed opening the locksmith tries a sample of the old keys, including the master if one existed, and confirms that each one enters the keyway and turns nothing. The collected old keys are then cut through with snips in front of the manager and can be handed back as scrap or taken away. Any door deliberately left on its original key is written on the chart in plain words so nobody assumes it changed. That last check is what turns a day of brass work into a genuine reset of who can open the business.

  3. Storefront hardware ready for the salt

    Cylinders on a street-facing door live a hard life: slush, salt spray from the sidewalk plough and a dozen freeze-thaw swings a winter. Each cylinder handled during the rekey is cleaned and dressed with the lubricant approved for that model, a dry graphite, PTFE or specified liquid lubricant applied sparingly, since too much graphite can gum a cylinder just as oil traps grit. Keep it that way with a puff of the same lubricant each autumn and a wipe of the key before it goes in on a slushy morning. A set screw snugged, a cam aligned and a bolt that throws fully are part of the handover, so the rekeyed door also locks more cleanly than it did before.

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. 1A master key plan

    Pinning cylinders to accept both a change key and a master, and designing the chart so no key opens a door it should not, is more work per cylinder than keying everything alike.

  2. 2Several locations

    Rekeying two or three sites onto one keying plan means travel between them and a chart that spans buildings, quoted per site plus the shared design work.

  3. 3No existing chart or keys

    When nobody knows what the current keys open, the locksmith reads and records each cylinder before planning the new keying, and that reconstruction is time in the quote.

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, Wasaga Beach
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

Whatever brought you to this page from Wasaga Beach, whether it was a lockout, a lost key, a move, a break-in or simply a door that has annoyed you for months, one of the services below fits. Each is written to tell you what happens, what it involves, and what you have when the locksmith leaves.

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