Fobs, keypads and card readers are only worthwhile when the doors, closers and wiring behind them are sound. We design small access systems for offices, clinics and multi-unit buildings, install them cleanly, and hand over a system your staff can actually manage.
From the shop
A gate, a shed, a detached garage, a mailbox at the end of the drive: outdoor hardware lives a harder life than anything on the house. Rain gets in, frost locks it up, and sun fades the finish. We choose cylinders and padlocks built for the weather, mount them so water drains rather than pools, and key them to match the house where that makes sense.
— Port Perry Locksmith Co.
Hours
Locksmith services
Below are the jobs we handle most often. For each one you will find what it fixes, how a visit usually goes and what information helps us arrive with the right parts. If two services sound alike, call and we will explain the difference in a sentence.
Lockouts
A stranger's boot print on your door changes how a house feels. Burglary damage repair is partly about hardware and partly about that feeling: fixing the frame, fitting a stronger strike, replacing the lock and making sure nothing about the entrance still looks vulnerable.
Change or rekey
The back door is often the weakest one on the house, with a hollow slab, a short bolt and a strike held by two small screws. Residential upgrades usually begin there, and this section explains what changes and why.
High security
Controlling the keys is the part of high security that costs nothing to understand and everything to ignore. If anyone can copy your key at a kiosk, a strong cylinder is one photocopy from useless.
Commercial
Every commercial door should do three things: open for the right people, stay shut for everyone else, and let people out in a hurry without a key. The services in this group serve those three, and we will say which door falls short on which one.
Scugog
Lock Rekeying
One key for the front door, another for the back, a third for the side door into the garage, and a fourth for the shed. You stand on the step every evening flipping through them in the dark, trying each one until something turns.
Lock RekeyingUsuallyAdjust the closer and realign the strike.
WhyUsually the closer is out of adjustment or the strike has drifted; both are set, not replaced.
UsuallyService the exit device and rethink the routine.
WhyExit alarms are meant to sound; if staff need that door daily, an arrangement that still lets everyone leave freely is found.
UsuallyReplace the cylinder with a commercial-grade one.
WhyStorefront cylinders take a beating; a heavier grade is built for that traffic.
UsuallySeized & Jammed Lock Opening
WhyMany jammed locks are not lock problems at all.
UsuallyLost Keys — Same-Visit Rekey
WhyWhen a key disappears, cutting yourself another copy solves the wrong half of the problem.
UsuallyLock Rekeying
WhyMoving into a home is the moment most people first hear about rekeying, and it is the most sensible time to do it.
Open 24/7
Losing a master key exposes every door it opened, and a commercial rekey brings that exposure back to zero. The locksmith first works out which level the missing key sat at: a single change key affects one or two cylinders, while a master reaches every lock in its group.
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The priority is a door that closes and locks tonight. We assess the frame, the strike and the lock, and secure whatever was forced so you can stop worrying about the opening.
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Some damage needs a proper repair later; some can be fixed on the spot. We separate the two clearly and explain what a lasting fix involves without pushing you into it.
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If keys were taken or the lock was compromised, we rekey or replace before leaving. You end the visit with a door that locks and keys that only you hold.
Durham, Ontario
2021 census · what it means at the door
53%Older homes
About 53% of homes in Scugog were built in 1980 or earlier, according to the 2021 Census.
In neighbourhoods of established homes, keys have often been copied many times over many owners. Rekeying every exterior door to one fresh key is the common first job, and it works on old cylinders just as well as on new ones.
89%Mostly houses
Single-detached houses make up about 89% of homes in Scugog (2021 Census).
Garage entry doors on detached houses are often the household's real front door, used more than the formal entry. They deserve the same quality of lock, and keying them alike with the house means one key does the whole daily routine.
A keying chart is a plain list of every opening, the key group that operates it, the code stamped on those keys and the number issued. Months later it lets you answer exactly which doors a missing key opened, and it lets a locksmith add a new door to the system without changing anything else. Keep it with the key register, somewhere locked, with a copy off site.
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.
Between tenants is the ideal moment: the departing tenant has handed back their keys, the new one has not yet received any, and the unit is empty for the work. The incoming tenant then starts on keys nobody else has held, and the landlord's own master or emergency key is set up at the same time. Where a lease has ended in dispute, the locksmith asks to see the paperwork before changing locks on a unit that still holds a tenant's goods.
A photo of each door's lock from inside and outside, the type of door, whether there is glass nearby and roughly how many keys are in circulation. For a business, a sketch of the doors and who needs to reach each area saves a great deal of time. Mention any door that sticks, has been forced or has a closer or push bar on it. With that, the locksmith arrives with the right formats and a plan to discuss.
On-site assessment preferred
Reach out and we'll explain the options. Ask us what the visit involves.
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