The renovation is finished and the contractors have gone, along with the loaner keys they used for six weeks. Trades, delivery drivers and an inspector all came through, and the front door still answers to the key that was passed around the site.
A commercial rekey is planned around the trading day. The locksmith agrees a window, often after close or before opening, and works door by door so the premises is never left without a locking entrance. Cylinders come out, are repinned at a bench in the van or on a counter, and go back in; interchangeable cores are simply swapped for freshly combinated ones. Each door is tried with both new and old keys before the next is started. New keys go to whoever opens up in the morning, and a written chart of doors and key groups stays with the manager.
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Commercial Rekeying · Toronto
Scene 1
The locksmith walks the premises with you and lists every opening that should be in the plan: the customer entrance, the receiving door, offices, stockroom, cash room, server closet, the mailbox, cabinets, and any padlocks on gates, compounds or roll shutters. Each lock is identified by type, since a mortise cylinder in an aluminum storefront door, a key-in-lever set on an office, a rim cylinder on a back door and an interchangeable core in a stockroom each come out and go back in differently. The keyway and the maker's mark are noted, and the condition of each cylinder is checked, so the list from the walk is what the quote and the work are built on.
Scene 2
The job is finished when the old keys are proven dead, not when the new ones work. At every rekeyed opening the locksmith tries a sample of the old keys, including the master if one existed, and confirms that each one enters the keyway and turns nothing. The collected old keys are then cut through with snips in front of the manager and can be handed back as scrap or taken away. Any door deliberately left on its original key is written on the chart in plain words so nobody assumes it changed. That last check is what turns a day of brass work into a genuine reset of who can open the business.
Scene 3
Rekeying changes who can come in; it never changes how people get out. Every exit door and every door on the way to one is left opening from the inside with a single motion and no key. On a door with a panic bar, the outside cylinder simply controls entry, and the bar keeps working exactly as before. Once the locksmith has finished, walk the exit routes yourself, push each bar and turn each thumb-turn, and make that walk a habit at the start of every season so a new deadbolt or a helpful padlock never creeps onto an exit.
What shapes the quoteDavisville Lock & Key Co.
FeesSame any hour
A list of the doors and other locks you want included, a copy of the lease or the property manager's contact, every existing key you can find, and a rough idea of who needs to open what. Note which doors, if any, are interchangeable cores and where the control key is. Knowing your quiet hours and who opens up in the morning helps the locksmith plan the order of work and the key handover.
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.
In a master key system each lock accepts its own change key and also a master key above it, so a manager carries one key while staff carry keys that open only their own doors. Small businesses with three or four doors often manage without one. A master earns its place once there are several rooms with different people in them, or several locations, and the owner would otherwise carry a ring of keys.
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Commercial Rekeying · Bedford Park, Davisville, Lawrence Park, North Toronto
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On-site assessment
The renovation is finished and the contractors have gone, along with the loaner keys they used for six weeks.
(289) 217-4629, open 24/7.
On-site assessment preferred · (289) 217-4629, open 24/7
