Every time the courtyard gate closes, it slams hard enough to rattle the fence panels, and the deadlatch never quite drops into the keeper before the spring yanks it the rest of the way. One good gust of wind and it bounces right back open.
A building outlives its tenants, and every move-out that skips a rekey leaves one more key in circulation that nobody living there today can account for. This service treats that turnover as routine business: the shared entry's cylinder is rekeyed to a fresh combination, new keys are cut for everyone who currently needs one, and any gate on the same property that should share that key is brought along to match. What used to be an open question about who can get in becomes a short, current list.
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Gate & Building Entry Locks · Cambridge
Scene 1
Every lock on a gate or shared entry belongs to a family with its own habits: a surface-mounted gate lock, a mortise case built into a heavier door, a rim cylinder feeding an electric strike, or a panic device on a fire exit. The maker's mark, the keyway shape and whether a thumb-turn or a second keyed side is present all point to which family sits on the door. Getting this right before opening anything up is what lets the visit move straight to adjustment or replacement instead of guessing at parts that will not fit the housing already there.
Scene 2
With the gate or door's adjusted position confirmed, the strike or keeper is repositioned, shimmed or deepened so the latch or bolt has a clean, full throw into it. On a wooden gate post this can mean moving the keeper's screws to fresh wood; on a metal frame it can mean elongating or relocating the mounting holes. The goal is a strike that lines up with the latch across the gate's whole range of motion, in damp weather and dry, rather than only on the one afternoon it happened to be tested.
Scene 3
Where the visit followed prying, cutting or an attempted entry, you leave with every damaged piece accounted for: what was replaced, what was straightened, and what was simply cleaned up and reused because it tested sound. The gate or door is shown closing, latching and locking normally, and any weak point the attempt revealed, such as an undersized hasp or a strike with too little bite, has been addressed rather than left as it was found.
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The usual cause is meltwater getting into the keyway during a thaw and refreezing overnight, which stiffens the plug or blocks it outright, along with cold thickening any grease left inside from the factory. Road salt tracked onto ground-level hardware adds corrosion on top of that. A cylinder treated with the lubricant its maker specifies, kept clear of standing water, generally handles a winter far better than one left as it came, and a weather-rated replacement, kept up the same way, holds up better once the current one is pitted.
Both, where the two are connected, which on a gate they usually are. A locksmith working on a gate lock also looks at the hinges, the post and the closer, since a lock rarely fails on its own when the real cause is a sagging gate or a post that has shifted. Work that goes beyond hardware the locksmith carries, such as rebuilding a rotted post or a damaged fence panel, is flagged so it can be handled by whoever normally does that kind of repair.
Yes, provided the padlocks themselves are a type built to be rekeyed or matched, which is a feature of the specific model rather than something price or quality decides. The locksmith either rekeys the existing padlocks to a shared combination or replaces any that cannot be rekeyed with new ones cut to match. The result is one key working the front gate, the side gate and the shed, instead of a separate key for each, though a utility gate can be left on its own key.
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Every time the courtyard gate closes, it slams hard enough to rattle the fence panels, and the deadlatch never quite drops into the keeper before the spring yanks it the rest of the way.
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