Here is the full range of what we do for houses, businesses and vehicles across Woodstock. Some jobs take one visit and a few tools; others are worth planning. Each page tells you which it is likely to be and how to prepare.
Woodstock
Locksmith services
Lockout Services
We carry the tools to pick, bypass, decode, extract and, as a last resort, drill.
- Home Lockout ServiceYou stepped out to grab the recycling bin and the door swung shut behind you.
- 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…
- Broken Key ExtractionThe apartment key snapped mid-turn, leaving the cylinder twisted halfway between locked and open.
- Break-In Damage Lock RepairThe back door looks closed until you touch it.
- Seized & Jammed Lock OpeningThe lock works, but only if you lean on the door with your hip while turning the key.
- Lost Keys — Same-Visit RekeyThe spare under the planter by the side door is gone.
Change or Rekey Locks
A smart lock with a dying battery, a keypad that has forgotten its code or an app that stopped pairing is now…
- Lock RekeyingThe previous owners left a coffee tin of keys on the counter, some labelled, most not.
- Deadbolt InstallationThe front door has a handsome lever and a keyed knob, and that is all.
- Lock Replacement & UpgradeThe house is fifteen years old and every exterior door still wears the light hardware the builder fitted: a short bolt, a thin…
- Vintage Mortise Lock ServiceAfter a wet summer the entry door sits lower in its frame.
- Smart Lock InstallationThe rental turns over every few months and each time you drive across town to swap keys, then wonder whether copies were made.
- Gate & Building Entry LocksThe padlock on the side gate has gone stiff every winter for three years running, and this year the key simply will not turn past…
- Mailbox Lock ReplacementThe mail slot on the shop's exterior wall has a small compartment lock that a former employee still has a key to, months after…
High Security Locks
A high security cylinder uses extra locking elements, sidebars, finger pins or rotating discs, that a pick or…
- Safe Opening & Combination ChangePry marks circle the dial after an overnight break-in attempt, and the safe now refuses every number that used to open it, as if…
- Safe Installation & ServicingThe office is moving three blocks over, and the old commercial safe that has sat bolted to the concrete for fifteen years now…
- High Security LocksYou have lost count of how many people have had a key to your house over the years: cleaners, a contractor, a former partner, the…
Commercial Locks
A commercial key plan should survive the person who set it up.
- Commercial RekeyingThe manager's key ring went missing somewhere between the bank and the car, and the master on it opened every door in the…
- Master Key System DesignA self-storage operator wants the office, the tenant gate and the equipment shed on three different levels of access for staff…
- Access Control InstallationSomething went missing from the storeroom over a weekend, and when you ask who was in the building, the honest answer is anyone…
- Panic & Exit HardwareAfter the fit-out, the gym floor now holds more people than the old office space ever did, and the exit door at the back still…
- Commercial-Grade Lock ReplacementAt closing time the hookbolt on the storefront door catches the keeper only on the second or third try, and one employee has…
Car Keys
Before any key is cut or programmed for a vehicle we check that the person asking has a claim to it.
- Car Lockout ServiceYou pressed the fob at the office door and nothing happened.
- Car Key ReplacementThe key snapped at the head while you were turning it in a stiff, frosty door lock.
- Spare Car Key DuplicationTwo coworkers share one delivery van and one key between them, trading it at the start and end of every shift in a parking lot.
- Key Fob ProgrammingA new driver has joined the household, and the one existing fob is the only key anyone has ever had cut for this vehicle.
- Transponder Key ProgrammingThe remote fob has gone silent, the doors won't unlock with a button press, and the little emergency blade tucked inside it has…
- Ignition Lock RepairHalf the key is still in your hand.
- Vehicle Lock RepairAfter a cold night the driver's door key barely goes in, and when it finally seats it stops halfway and will not turn any further.
- Motorcycle & Scooter KeysThe key still opens the seat and unlocks the fork, but at the ignition it needs a slow half-turn and a small lift before the…