Residential Locksmith in Orlando, FL

The calls Orlando homeowners make

Closing day on a new build in Lake Nona, Horizon West or Winter Garden, where the builder, the painters and the punch-list crew all had a key. A Winter Park bungalow with a front door lock older than the owner. A MetroWest condo with a lever that spins but does not lock. A Thornton Park rental changing tenants on the first of the month. Each of these has a right answer, and it is usually rekey, replace or go keyless. The technician looks at the door and tells you which before quoting.

We rekey and install Kwikset, Schlage, Baldwin, Medeco and Mul-T-Lock, and the Schlage Encode, Yale and Kwikset keypad locks that Orlando homes and vacation rentals are moving to. Hardware you already bought gets installed too, and set right.

Humidity, storms and doors that will not latch

Half the lock complaints in Orlando are door complaints. Heat and afternoon rain swell wood doors and shift frames, so the bolt no longer lines up with the strike and the lock gets blamed. Forcing it wears out the mechanism. A residential technician adjusts the strike, the hinges and the door before touching the lock, which is often the whole fix, and it is done in the same visit.

New construction has its own version: builder-grade hardware installed fast, misaligned strikes, and one contractor key that opened every house on the street during the build. A rekey and a door check on move-in day close both gaps.

• Strike plates and hinge screws reinforced against a kick-in on request
• Every exterior door keyed alike when the keyways match
• Old keys collected and destroyed if you want them gone

Condos, HOAs, landlords and vacation rentals

Condo and HOA rules often say what a front door may look like, and some buildings require that management keep a key. Tell the technician on arrival and the hardware and keying are chosen to fit, whether that is a matching finish, a keypad model the board has approved, or a retrofit that keeps the building's key working.

Landlords between tenants get a rekey the same day the old tenant hands over keys, with new keys cut on site and a copy for the office. Vacation-rental owners and managers in Kissimmee, Davenport and ChampionsGate get smart lock service, guest codes and one number to call when a code fails at check-in; several doors earn a standing rate.