Moving into a home in Georgina means somebody else's keys are still out there: a former owner, a tenant, a painter, a cousin who once watered the plants. Rekeying every exterior lock to one fresh key settles the question in a single visit, and the same job suits a rental turning over or a shop changing hands.
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Moving into a home in Georgina means somebody else's keys are still out there: a former owner, a tenant, a painter, a cousin who once watered the plants. Rekeying every exterior lock to one fresh key settles the question in a single visit, and the same job suits a rental turning over or a shop changing hands.
Winter is part of how we work in Georgina. Doors swell and shrink, frames shift, keys snap in cold cylinders, and salt finds its way into hardware. We choose lubricants that stay fluid in the cold, set strikes with the seasons in mind, and show you the small habit that stops a key from freezing in the lock.
We keep our range around Georgina tight enough to know the streets and the housing well. That shows up in small ways: the right cylinder finish already on the van, an understanding of which builders used which locks, and directions that never need a second phone call. Homes, businesses and vehicles all benefit from a technician who has been here before.
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Georgina
The services offered in Georgina answer the questions a door eventually asks. Who else has a key? Why does the bolt drag? Would a stronger cylinder be worth it? Can staff leave without a key? How do I open the safe my father left? Each answer is on the pages below.
Lock RekeyingThree months of renovation are finally done.
Vintage Mortise Lock ServiceThe old skeleton key still fits the keyhole, but it now needs a jiggle, a lean on the door and a little luck before the bolt moves.
Safe Opening & Combination ChangeDecades of daily use have left the law firm's old dial safe drifting: the numbers line up close to where they should, never quite enough to drop the bolt.
Commercial RekeyingThe drawer behind the counter holds a tangle of keys with tape labels: front old, side, Dave.
Access Control InstallationThe keypad on the side door has started sticking on cold mornings, codes get shared instead of reset, and half the staff still remember a code you meant to retire two hires ago.
Panic & Exit HardwareTwo doors used to swing as a pair at the community hall entrance, but one leaf has started closing before the other, catching the astragal and leaving a gap wide enough to worry the caretaker.
Car Lockout ServiceYou stepped out at the pump to pay inside, the passenger locked their door out of habit, and the driver's door caught behind you.
Car Key ReplacementYou bought the car privately and it came with a single key on a shoelace.
Key Fob ProgrammingA replacement fob just arrived in its box, shiny and untouched.
Lock RekeyingThree months of renovation are finally done.
Deadbolt InstallationThe front door has a handsome lever and a keyed knob, and that is all.
Lock Replacement & UpgradeThe lever on the side door droops toward the floor and rattles in your hand.
Vintage Mortise Lock ServiceThe old skeleton key still fits the keyhole, but it now needs a jiggle, a lean on the door and a little luck before the bolt moves.
Smart Lock InstallationThe kids get home before you do and the spare key has been lost twice this school year.
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 ReplacementThe mailbox key snapped clean off in the lock last week, and the stub is still sitting somewhere inside the cylinder.York, Ontario
2021 Census
About 43% of homes in Georgina were built in 1980 or earlier, according to the 2021 Census.
Older frames and newer frames fail in different ways. Settled wood pulls strikes out of line; new framing settles as it dries. A locksmith used to a mixed area recognises which he is looking at and adjusts accordingly.
Single-detached houses make up about 83% of homes in Georgina (2021 Census).
Detached houses have their own garages, sheds and gates, and each tends to carry a lock chosen on the day it was needed. A locksmith visiting such a home looks at all of them, not just the front door, and brings the whole property up to one standard.
High security
Getting past an ordinary lock is a skill many people have. Getting past a high security lock is loud, slow and uncertain, which is exactly the point. The services here make your door the one an intruder decides is not worth it.
The restricted keys you bought years ago are no longer restricted; the locksmith mentioned the patent has run out and blanks are sold openly.
The lever on the side door droops toward the floor and rattles in your hand.
The front door has a handsome lever and a keyed knob, and that is all.
The shop's aluminum door has a bent meeting stile and the hookbolt is jammed half out.
Commercial
A store safe that will not open, a combination nobody remembers, a floor safe that needs moving or a new one that needs bolting down: safe work sits under commercial services here, alongside the doors that stand between the street and the safe.
High security
Decades of daily use have left the law firm's old dial safe drifting: the numbers line up close to where they should, never quite enough to drop the bolt.
Behind the filing cabinets sits a heavy floor safe nobody ever bolted down, left exactly as the last owner set it. It opens fine, but a determined pair of hands could simply tip it into a van.
Sensible optionLock Rekeying
WhyWhat you keep after rekeying is almost everything.
Sensible optionVintage Mortise Lock Service
WhyWhere the door has moved, the lock gets blamed.
Sensible optionSafe Opening & Combination Change
WhySafe opening favours the gentlest method that fits the particular safe and lock, with drilling kept as a later option rather than a first resort.
Sensible optionCommercial Rekeying
WhyFor most business doors, rekeying is the sensible middle path between doing nothing and buying new hardware.
Sensible optionAccess Control Installation
WhyA building already running an intrusion alarm or a camera system gains from an access control installation that speaks to them rather than sitting apart from them: an arm-and-disarm event that lines up with the person who unlocked the door, a camera clip tagged to a specific credential instead of a blank time stamp.
Sensible optionPanic & Exit Hardware
WhyPanic and exit hardware installation fits a commercial door with a device that releases the latch the moment someone pushes on it from the inside, so the room's occupants are never asked to find a key to leave.
Sensible optionCar Lockout Service
WhyWhen the keys are truly gone, a car lockout call becomes two jobs in one visit.
Sensible optionCar Key Replacement
WhyWinter produces its own kind of key trouble.
Sensible optionKey Fob Programming
WhyKey fob programming introduces a fob, remote or smart key into a vehicle's memory so every function it offers actually operates the car: the locks, the alarm, starting authorization, and on many vehicles passive entry, which unlocks the door once it is nearby and the handle is touched, gripped or pressed, since unlocking on approach alone is a separate feature found on only some vehicles.
The whole key ring went missing somewhere between the grocery store and the bus. You got back in with the spare, but a set of keys is out there, and you would sleep better knowing they open nothing.
Lock RekeyingThe knob flops loose on its spindle and never springs back to level. When you turn it the latch pulls in, but you have to push the knob back yourself, and lately the latch has started staying inside the door instead of catching.
Vintage Mortise Lock ServiceThe new manager took over the shop last month and only now needs the back-office safe open, but the combination the previous owner was supposed to leave in writing never turned up anywhere in the handover file.
Safe Opening & Combination ChangeTwo people left over the summer and the keys they handed back came up one short. Nobody is sure whether the missing key was for the front door, the stockroom or both, and the sign-out sheet stopped being filled in a year ago.
Commercial RekeyingAnother employee left and the keys never came back. You changed the locks again, cut copies for everyone who stayed, and paid for a job that repeats itself the next time someone quits, taking a working key out the door with them.
Access Control InstallationSomeone at the front counter always has to unlock the side door by hand before the lunch rush, because the round doorknob out there was never meant to be an exit for a room this size.
Panic & Exit HardwareIt is a January morning, minus twenty with the wind, and the key will not enter the door cylinder. Yesterday's slush ran into the keyhole and froze overnight. The door itself is glued to its rubber seal, and the fob has gone quiet in the cold.
Car Lockout ServiceThe only key to the car went into the lake with the kayak. Now the car sits locked in the driveway with a full tank, and there is no spare in the house, in a coat pocket or anywhere else.
Car Key ReplacementA fob went missing weeks ago somewhere between a coat pocket and a parking lot, and a spare has covered the gap since. Everything still opens and starts without trouble, which is exactly the concern: wherever that missing fob ended up, it may still work too.
Key Fob ProgrammingThey become ordinary pieces of brass. Once the cylinders are pinned to the new combination, the old keys turn nothing on your property, so there is no security reason to keep or hide them. Hand them to the locksmith for disposal or drop them in the metal recycling. If a former roommate or contractor still has one, it no longer matters, which is the whole reason for the visit. Keep only the new set, counted and tagged.
Often, on cases that already take a threaded cylinder. Mortise cylinders are made in standard thread sizes and lengths with different cam shapes, and a new one is selected to match the case and the door thickness. That gives you keys cut on a machine and the option of keying the door alike with the rest of the house. A bit-key case has no cylinder to swap; its keys are made on the bench instead.
Yes. The locksmith identifies the safe directly from its hardware, brand plate if one survives, and physical layout, then proceeds with the same manipulation, decoding or reset options used on any safe with an unknown history. Documentation such as a will, an executor's letter or a property transfer establishes your authority to have it opened.
Rekeying keeps every lock on the door and changes only the pins inside the cylinder, so a new key works and the old ones stop. Replacing swaps the hardware itself. Commercial cylinders are made to be repinned many times, so rekeying suits any lock in sound condition and leaves the levers, trim and door untouched. Replacement is chosen door by door for cylinders that are worn, corroded or too light for what they protect.
An electric strike fits into the existing door frame and works with the door's own latch or bolt, releasing it briefly for a valid credential while otherwise behaving like an ordinary strike plate. A magnetic lock instead clamps the door shut with an electromagnet mounted at the head of the frame, and it is always installed with a request-to-exit device so someone leaving is never held up looking for a way out.
Hardware standards set a maximum, not a target: an exit device is built to release the latch under a firm push, no more than about 15 pounds of force applied at the touchpad or crossbar, roughly the pressure of a light shove rather than a heave. That ceiling covers people who cannot lean hard into a door, so the swing stays open to anyone moving toward it under pressure.
That is the ordinary case, and there is a routine for it. Tell the locksmith on the phone so the plan is agreed in advance. Often the plate can be matched to a photo of the permit on your phone, a family member can bring identification, or a fleet manager can confirm a company vehicle. Otherwise the door is opened and the documents in the glovebox are checked against your identification before the locksmith leaves.
It depends on the starting point. Adding a spare to a car with a working key is often the shortest kind of visit. An all-keys-lost job on a newer vehicle takes longer, because the car has to be opened, the lock decoded, the immobilizer reset and any security timer waited out. Milling a high-security blade and pairing a proximity fob add their own steps. The locksmith gives you a realistic window once the VIN and the situation are known.
A fob that has gone quiet, but whose mechanical blade still opens the door normally, is very often a battery rather than a programming problem. A fresh coin-cell battery, sized to what that fob calls for, is worth trying before assuming anything electronic has failed. If a new battery changes nothing, the fault sits somewhere else in the fob or the vehicle's memory.
Winter is part of how we work in Georgina. Doors swell and shrink, frames shift, keys snap in cold cylinders, and salt finds its way into hardware. We choose lubricants that stay fluid in the cold, set strikes with the seasons in mind, and show you the small habit that stops a key from freezing in the lock.