Rekeying & Key Cutting in Hawthorn, VIC

Rekeying & Key Cutting — what it involves

Rekeying changes the pins inside a cylinder so it accepts a new key and refuses the old one. The lock stays on the door, the hardware you paid for stays in service, and every key handed out over the years stops working at once. For most people worried about who still has a key, this is the answer — not a new lock.

The Hawthorn picture

Hawthorn carries a postcode of 3122 and about 22,322 residents, inside the Boroondara council area. The addresses we see most run off Glenferrie Road, Burwood Road and Riversdale Road. If you are giving directions, Hawthorn is the reference point most people reach for. The nearest suburbs we also cover are Hawthorn East, Toorak and Kew.

Hawthorn runs to a mix of apartment blocks and older houses, sometimes on the same street, and the two need almost nothing in common from a locksmith. A walk-up block brings common-door keys, intercom-released entrances and mailbox locks; the houses beside it bring timber doors that have moved with the seasons and deadlocks fitted long enough ago that the strike no longer lines up. The strips along Glenferrie Road and Burwood Road carry their own hardware again — shopfronts, roller shutters and back doors that get used more than any lock is designed for.

A large share of Hawthorn is rented, so a steady part of the work here is tenancy-driven: rekeying between leases, replacing a key a departing tenant never returned, and after-hours lockouts where the agency has closed and the tenant is standing at the door. We can invoice a managing agency directly rather than putting the tenant in the middle of it, which is usually the difference between the job happening tonight and happening on Monday.

Requests in Hawthorn skew towards the considered end: restricted key systems so keys cannot be copied at a counter, smart locks chosen to suit the door rather than the catalogue, and safes installed properly rather than left standing in a wardrobe. We work all through Hawthorn 3122, from Hawthorn across to Epworth Hawthorn and across the rest of the Boroondara council area.

What happens when you call

1. You tell us where and what. The suburb, the door and what has happened. For an apartment, say whether it is the building's door or your own — they are different jobs.
2. We tell you where the nearest van is. A real window, not a slogan. If it does not suit you, you have lost a minute rather than an evening.
3. We confirm you are entitled to be there. Every time, without exception. It is the same check that stops somebody doing this to your home.
4. You get the cost before work starts. Not after the door is open, and never as a surprise on the invoice.

What this covers

• Rekeying after a move, a sale or a tenancy change
• Keying multiple doors alike to one key
• Replacing lost keys without replacing locks
• Cutting spare and duplicate keys on site
• Master and sub-master keying for small sites
• Restricted key duplication with authority
• Key registers for landlords and property managers