Rekey Locks in Olathe, KS

Inside most locks is a stack of small pins that have to line up before the plug will turn. Rekeying swaps those pins for a set that matches a different key. The lock stays on the door, the finish still matches the rest of the house, and every key cut to the old pattern stops working. That is usually all anyone wanted in the first place, and it costs less than replacing hardware that is doing nothing wrong.

Nobody can tell you how many copies of that key are out there. Not the seller, not the agent, not the previous tenant who handed one to a neighbor and forgot. Rekeying the exterior locks in your first week is the cheapest security decision a new owner makes, and we can usually key the front, back and garage doors to the same key while we are at it. A lost key is the same problem in a smaller shape. Tell us which doors it touched and we will rekey those and leave the rest alone.

Rekeying is not only a house job. We rekey padlocks, and we work with interchangeable cores, which let you change who gets in without taking a lock off the door. For buildings with staff and tenants we design and chart master key systems, so one key opens the manager's set and another opens only what a cleaner needs, and we keep the chart, which matters when you add a door later. Cars get rekeyed too, so only the key in your hand works.

Small hardware travels. If you can take the lock or the padlock off and bring it to the shop on N Ridgeview Rd, next to Johnson County Motor Vehicles, that is usually the quickest way to get it done. Doors that cannot come off their hinges, we come to, and we run mobile service across Johnson County.

Rental turnover is the most common reason a landlord calls. When one tenant moves out and the next moves in, the locks need to answer to a new key without the cost of new hardware on every door. We rekey the unit, and for a building we can key it into a system so a manager's key still works while the tenant's key changes each turnover.

If you own more than one door that you want on the same key, some rentals, a house and a detached shop, a bank of storage units, bring every cylinder in at the same time or have us out to all of them in one visit. Keying them alike only works when we can match them together, so the thing that makes it easy is doing it in a single pass.