Home Lock & Key Services
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You have just moved in and you have no idea how many keys are in circulation: previous owner, tenants, an agent, a domestic worker, a builder. Rekeying resets all of it.
The key needs a lift, a jiggle, a particular angle. That is wear, and it ends with you standing outside. Usually a repair rather than a replacement.
Security gate cylinders that jam, gate locks that only close if you lift the gate, burglar bar locks whose keys went missing years ago.
This is where most people are overcharged, so it is worth understanding before anyone quotes you.
Rekeying keeps your existing lock and changes its internals so it answers to a new key and ignores every old one. The hardware on your door stays. It is the right answer when the lock works fine and the problem is who holds keys: after a move, a tenant leaving, a break-up, a lost bunch.
Replacement is the right answer when the lock itself is the problem: the case is cracked, the cylinder is worn round, the lock is obsolete and no blank matches it, or it was damaged in a forced entry. It is also right when you are deliberately upgrading to something stronger.
If somebody looks at a sticking lock in a sound door and immediately quotes a full replacement plus a new handle set, get a second opinion. Ask which one they are recommending and why, and expect a straight answer.
Market ranges compiled from published South African sources, so you can judge a quote before you accept it:
The daytime and after-hours gap is the one that catches people. If the job can wait until morning, such as a failing lock, a spare key or a rekey after a tenant moves out, book it for daylight and pay the lower end.
ID and proof of address first: a lease, a municipal bill, a bond statement. Then the lock is assessed and you are told what it needs and what it costs before any work starts, including whether a repair will genuinely hold or is only buying a few months.
If you rent, clear a lock change with your landlord or managing agent before we come out. Opening a door you are locked out of is never a problem; changing a lock on someone else's property without permission is a different conversation, and it is easier had in advance.
House locksmith near me and residential locksmith near me are proximity searches, so the fair thing is to explain what proximity means here. There is no shopfront on a main road. The service is mobile, which means the relevant question is not how close a building is but how quickly a van reaches your street.
That turns out to matter more for home jobs than for anything else, because most of them are not emergencies. A lock that has begun to stick, a set of keys handed back by a departing tenant, a door that needs a second turn to catch — these are things people put off precisely because a shop trip is inconvenient. When the work happens at the house, they get dealt with before they become a lockout at eleven at night.
Rekeying on the day you take the keys is the single most worthwhile call. You have no idea how many copies exist.
Almost always cheaper to sort before it fails. A cylinder that has to be forced is a cylinder about to strand someone.
Gate locks take a hammering from weather and daily use, and are usually replaceable on the spot.
Every suburb we cover is listed on service areas, and each has its own page with the detail for that area. Rand ranges for home lock work are published on the price guide so you can decide before anyone drives out.
24 hour mobile service for Boksburg homes. Lockouts, rekeying, repairs, gate locks and spare keys.