Commercial · Guelph
Commercial-Grade Lock Replacement
The kitchen delivery door gets shouldered open more than a hundred times a shift, and lately the latch slips past the strike plate instead of catching it on the first push.
Commercial-Grade Lock Replacement
In plain words
Think of it as re-equipping a door for the job it actually does rather than swapping one lock for a similar one. A back door taking deliveries all shift needs different internals than a quiet office entrance, and a storefront's aluminum frame needs a narrow-stile lock a wood door was never built to accept. The locksmith matches lock body, cylinder and strike to the door's real prep and real use, decides with the business whether the new hardware joins an existing master key system or starts a new one, and leaves the opening cycling cleanly from both sides before the visit ends.
How the visit goesHead office wants every branch keyed alike under one system, and half the locations are still running whatever lockset the original contractor happened to install years ago.
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How the visit goes
Reading the door before the lock
The door tells the locksmith what kind of hardware it can even accept. A hollow-metal or solid wood door with a mortise pocket cut into the edge takes a mortise lock body; an aluminum storefront door with a narrow stile takes a purpose-built narrow-stile lock or hookbolt; a standard cylindrical bore takes a heavy-duty lockset sized to that hole pattern. Handing, swing, backset and existing strike location are measured so the replacement drops into the prep that is already there rather than requiring the door itself to be re-cut.
Matching the cylinder to the business's key system
The cylinder installed is the one agreed during the assessment: keyed into an existing master or grand-master system, set up as a new interchangeable core the business can rekey itself later, or cut to a restricted keyway that limits who can order duplicate keys. Where several doors are being brought onto one system in the same visit, cylinders are combinated so a single key or a defined set of keys operates every door that is supposed to share access.
A door rated for the job it does
The business is left with hardware sized to how the door is actually used: a mortise lock body or heavy cylindrical lockset that can take the traffic of a busy entrance, or a narrow-stile lock built for the aluminum frame it is mounted in rather than adapted to it. Staff can be shown how the new hardware feels different from the old one, whether that is a firmer latch, a smoother deadbolt throw, or a different key profile, so nobody is caught off guard by hardware that behaves differently from what they are used to.
Commercial-Grade Lock Replacement
In the van
- Mortise lock body
- Narrow-stile storefront lock
- Strike plates and keepers
- Heavy-duty cylindrical lockset
- Hookbolt and deadlatch hardware
What affects the quote
Same fees day, night or weekend
1Timing relative to a lease or renovation
Work scheduled around a tenant turnover, a renovation, or a building-wide upgrade across several units can be planned and quoted as a coordinated project rather than a series of separate calls.
2Condition of the existing door and frame
A door and frame in good condition accept new hardware into the existing prep with little extra work. Damage from a break-in, a cracked frame or a previously mis-cut mortise pocket adds repair time the quote accounts for separately.
3Key-control documentation
Setting up or updating a written key-control log, recording who holds which key and which doors share a system, is a small but distinct task the quote can name separately from the physical hardware work.
Commercial-Grade Lock Replacement: questions
What happens to keys held by former employees or contractors?
Once a cylinder is replaced or rekeyed, any key that was not reissued for the new combination simply stops working on that door. This is the direct answer to a key that walked out with someone who left the business, and it is worth doing across every door that key used to open, not only the one that prompted the call.
How long does commercial-grade lock hardware typically last under heavy use?
It depends heavily on cycle count and how the door is treated day to day, but hardware graded for commercial duty is built to outlast the internal wear that sinks a residential lock on the same door. A delivery door opened hundreds of times a shift will still wear its hardware faster than a quiet office entrance, so grade and use should be matched from the start rather than assumed.
What should I do with the old hardware once it is replaced?
That is entirely your choice. Some businesses keep old hardware briefly in case a spare part is needed elsewhere on the same system, others prefer it removed from the site straightaway, particularly after a break-in where the damaged pieces are no longer wanted around. The locksmith can leave it with you or take it away, whichever you prefer.
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Commercial-Grade Lock Replacement near you
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