Locksmith in Cambridge, OntarioLocked out in Cambridge?Let's get you inside.
It happens to careful people: the door swings shut, the key is on the kitchen table, and the evening stops. Our locksmith comes to Cambridge, confirms the home or shop is yours, opens the door without wrecking the lock, and stays long enough to make sure the key you have still works afterwards.
For businesses in Cambridge we keep records. Which cylinders were pinned to which key, how many keys were cut, which doors carry a master, when the closers were last adjusted. That paperwork lands in your inbox after the visit so the next staff change or the next audit is a matter of reading a page rather than calling around.
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Straight talk about your optionsWe describe what each choice does and what it asks of you in effort, disruption and future flexibility, so the decision is yours.
Work explained as it happensIf you want to watch, we tell you what each step is for. If you would rather make a coffee, we give you the summary at the end.
Tidiness as standardA lock change should not leave a mess. We bring what we need to keep the door area clean and we leave it that way.
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In business13 years
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One team handles every service on this page for Cambridge, so a lockout can turn into a rekey, and a rekey into a properly set deadbolt, within the same visit if you want it. Each service is described separately below, but at the door they fit together as one piece of work.
Residential locksmithing is small, careful work on the doors you use every day. We take the time to look at how the door hangs, how the latch meets the frame and how the key turns, because those details decide whether a lock lasts.
About 48% of homes in Cambridge were built in 1980 or earlier, according to the 2021 Census.
Mixed housing ages mean the advice changes door by door. An older solid-wood entry may want a strike reinforced; a newer steel door may want its short strike screws swapped. The locksmith looks at the door in front of him rather than assuming.
57%
Single-detached houses make up about 57% of homes in Cambridge (2021 Census).
Where housing is mixed, the same street can hold a solid wood front door, a steel townhouse door and a metal-clad suite door. A locksmith fits each with hardware suited to its construction, so every neighbour ends up with a door that locks properly.
WhyA car key that breaks in the door or the ignition is handled with the same extraction tools, with one difference.
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.The usual fix
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.
A safe sat in a late parent's basement for years, its combination known to nobody left in the family, and everyone would like to know what is actually inside…The usual fix
WhyA safe that arrives with no history at all, through an estate, an auction or a property changing hands, gets treated as an unknown until the locksmith reads it directly: the data plate, the lock type, the dial or keypad…
A community group counts the weekend's raffle and bake-sale cash on a kitchen table, then carries it home in a tote bag until the bank opens Monday, because…The usual fix
It is a well-known idea and a poor one. A drop of adhesive on the other half rarely bonds to a piece of brass sitting in a tight keyway, and what it does bond to is the cylinder, the pins and the face of the lock. That film then has to be dissolved before proper extractors can slide in. Keep the halves apart and dry.
Do I need a deadbolt on the door from the garage into the house?
It is worth having. The door between an attached garage and the living space is in practice often the softest way in, since a garage door left open leaves a passage knob as the only barrier. A thumb-turn deadbolt there costs a few minutes a day and closes that gap.
Can you open a safe used to store firearms?
Yes, the opening itself proceeds the same way as for any other safe. Afterward, for a business, it is worth confirming the storage arrangement still meets the applicable federal requirements for secure firearms storage, since those cover the container, the surrounding room and who has access, separately from whatever caused the lock to need attention.
Can the combination or code be changed after installation?
Yes, on both mechanical and electronic locks. A mechanical dial is reset to a new combination by working inside the lock body, while an electronic keypad is simply reprogrammed at the keypad or through its service menu. Changing it after a change in staff, a move, or simply out of caution is routine work rather than anything unusual, and it can be arranged as its own visit.
Should we rekey every time an employee leaves?
Rekey when a key has not come back or when the departure was unfriendly; when a key is returned and the register confirms it, the cylinders it opened are as secure as before. Businesses that want a response to every departure without a visit each time fit interchangeable cores and swap them in-house. Whatever the trigger, dealing with only the cylinders that key opened keeps the response proportionate.
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Broken Key ExtractionOvernight the deadbolt froze, and this morning the key would only turn partway.
Deadbolt InstallationThe old deadbolt has grown lazy.
Safe Opening & Combination ChangeA customer's rifle safe at the range has a dial that simply will not respond to the combination written on the sales receipt from…
Safe Installation & ServicingThe till drawer has been holding two days of cash because the new shop never got a proper safe, and a locked drawer under the…
Commercial RekeyingA key turned up in the parking lot with the shop's name on its fob.
Panic & Exit HardwareSomeone at the front counter always has to unlock the side door by hand before the lunch rush, because the round doorknob out…
Spare Car Key DuplicationThe blade on the everyday key has gone shiny and thin along one edge, and lately it needs a wiggle before the ignition catches.
Ignition Lock RepairThe key slides in fine and turns without any resistance at all, and the dash lights flicker, but nothing catches.
Vehicle Lock RepairYou line the key up with the trunk lock, turn it, and feel nothing catch.
