Plan ahead High security · Keswick
High Security Locks in Keswick
After the attempted break-in the police officer pointed at your door and said the strike plate was held by two short screws. Nobody got in, but you have looked at that door differently every evening since.
Call now · open 24/7(289) 803-2818In plain words
Most break-ins do not involve picking; they involve a boot, a pry bar or a key that should never have been copied. High security hardware answers all three. A deadbolt with a full one-inch throw and a hardened core resists sawing and kicking, a reinforced strike with three-inch screws keeps the jamb whole, and a patented keyway means a copy can only be made through the locksmith who holds your system. The pick, bump and drill resistance of the cylinder is the layer on top. The locksmith's job is to fit those layers to your particular door and your particular worries.
How the visit goesYour shop has had four employees leave in two years and each one had a key. Rekeying every time is getting old, and the hardware store will cut a copy for anyone who walks in with the original.
High Security Locks · Keswick
How the visit goes
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Reading the cylinder you have now
The existing cylinder tells the locksmith a great deal. A standard pin tumbler with an open keyway can be picked, bumped and duplicated by anyone with the blank. Worn pins let a key that is not quite right jiggle it open. A cylinder that spins loosely in its housing or shows a scratched face has been attacked or simply worn out. The locksmith identifies the format, whether key-in-knob, rim, mortise or interchangeable core, because that determines which high-security cylinders will drop into your present hardware and which will need a new lock body altogether.
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Heavy hardware for commercial doors
Storefront, warehouse and office doors take heavy-duty lock bodies rather than residential deadbolts. Depending on the door, that means a commercial deadbolt or mortise lock with a hardened cylinder guard, a free-spinning collar that defeats wrenches, and a laboratory-rated cylinder inside it. Narrow aluminium doors get a deadlock made for their stile. The locksmith fits the lock to the existing preparation where it is standard, adjusts the strike in the frame, and confirms that any exit device or closer on the same door still works exactly as before so people leave easily while the door holds from outside.
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A known number of keys
The most noticeable change is not in the door but in your head. You know exactly how many keys exist, who holds each one and that nobody can add to that number without your authorisation. The system is registered in your name with the locksmith, so a request for an extra key comes back to you rather than being filled at a counter somewhere. Keep the authorisation card or login details somewhere safe and separate from the keys. When a key is lost, tell the locksmith; the record is updated and you can decide together whether that key's loss warrants any further step.
In the van
- Code key cutting machine
- Box strike
- High-security cylinder
- Pinning kit and plug follower
- Commercial mortise lock body
What affects the quote
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Exit devices and closers on the same door
Where a commercial door carries a push bar or closer, the new lock must work with them, and adjusting or replacing that hardware is part of the same visit.
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Distance and access
A rural property, a high-rise with loading dock rules or a site that must be visited outside trading hours affects travel and scheduling, and the quote says so plainly.
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Hinge and door edge work
Long hinge screws, a hinge-side security stud or repair to a chewed door edge are small items that add up on a door that has been forced before.
Same fees day, night or weekend.
High Security Locks: questions
How do I order extra keys later?
An authorised person contacts the locksmith who holds your system, quotes the system reference, and the key is cut from code and numbered into the register. Some systems use a physical authorisation card, others an online validation, and business systems often require a signature that matches one on file. The key is collected or delivered, and the record shows the new total. It is deliberately not something a stranger with your key can do.
What happens when the patent on my keys runs out?
The mechanical resistance of the cylinder does not change, but blanks may become openly available, so copy control weakens. Manufacturers issue new patented keyways as older ones expire, and the usual answer is to move to the next generation by changing cylinders and keys while keeping the lock bodies. Your locksmith notes the patent term at handover so the date is on the calendar rather than a surprise years later.
Do I need to replace my whole deadbolt or just the cylinder?
It depends on what you have. If the deadbolt is a good heavy unit that throws a full inch into a proper strike, a high security cylinder can replace the ordinary one and the rest stays. If the deadbolt is light, worn or throws a short bolt, a new graded deadbolt with a hardened bolt is the sensible base and the high security cylinder goes into that. The assessment tells you which, door by door.
High Security Locks
York, Ontario
Keswick information
- Town
- Keswick, York, Ontario
- In business
- 16 years
- Hours
- Open 24/7 · nights, weekends and holidays, same fees
- Phone
- (289) 803-2818
- Visits
- On-site assessment preferred. Request a visit or call.
What the census means at the door
43%
Homes of every age. About 43% of homes in Georgina were built in 1980 or earlier, according to the 2021 Census.
Where housing is mixed, doors that have been replaced sit beside doors that never were. A new door in an old frame, or an old door in a repaired frame, needs its strike and hinges checked together so the whole assembly works as one.
83%
Mostly houses. Single-detached houses make up about 83% of homes in Georgina (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.
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After the attempted break-in the police officer pointed at your door and said the strike plate was held by two short screws.
Call now · open 24/7(289) 803-2818- On-site assessment preferred
- Same fees day, night or weekend
- 16 years in business