Locks on a Fort Lauderdale home or storefront work in rough conditions. Salt air drifting in off the Atlantic and the Intracoastal, together with humidity that never really lets up, finds its way into exterior cylinders until the key turns rough, sticks, and finally stops turning at all. Add a wood door that has swollen until it no longer lines up with the strike plate, and an ordinary morning turns into a door you cannot open and a day that stops before it starts.
When you call Car Keys Locksmith Solution, a mobile locksmith heads out from our base in southwest Fort Lauderdale with everything needed to open, rekey, repair or replace your locks right there at the property. We work 24 hours a day, every day of the week, and you get a clear quote over the phone before any work begins, so nothing has to be negotiated on your doorstep.
A front-door deadbolt rekeyed on-site by Car Keys Locksmith Solution in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Rekeying and Lock Changes in Fort Lauderdale
Rekeying keeps the hardware you already own and changes the pins inside the cylinder, so every old key stops working and you are left with one new key for the doors you choose. It is the usual answer after a tenant moves out of a Victoria Park duplex, after a remodel crew hands back the keys, or when someone leaves a Las Olas Boulevard shop with a storefront key still on their ring. When the lock itself is worn out or corroded past saving, we fit new hardware instead of patching it.
Steps To Take When You're Locked Out Of Your Home Or Business
- Take a breath. Being shut out of your own door feels urgent, but it is routine work for someone who does it every day.
- Leave the window and the door alone. Prying at a slider, forcing a hurricane-rated window or taking a drill to the cylinder usually costs far more to put right than the lock was worth, and in a condo building it can put you crossways with the association's rules on doors and hardware. A trained locksmith gets you in without the repair bill.
- Call Car Keys Locksmith Solution and know a professional is already on the way, typically in about 30 minutes.
There is no reason to sit on the step for half the afternoon, and no reason to hand your front door to someone with a pry bar. Call us and we will get you inside, then leave the lock working the way it is supposed to.
Our Locksmiths Are Trained To Handle All Sorts Of Lock Problems
We open residential and commercial doors with non-destructive picks and tools matched to the lock in front of us, so the cylinder, the door and the frame come through it unmarked. If the lock is already seized or broken, we can repair or replace it on the spot.
Expert Service For Fort Lauderdale, FL and the Surrounding Area
Whether you are in Flagler Village, a Rio Vista house with its original hardware, a Galt Ocean Mile high-rise or an office just off Broward Boulevard, a mobile locksmith is a short run up I-95 or US-1 away, and the same service covers the rest of Broward County. Call us any hour and tell us what the lock is doing.
Broken Keys and Jammed Locks
A key that snaps off in a deadbolt or a shop door rarely breaks out of nowhere. The cylinder has usually been fighting it for months, worn down by grit, by salt-air corrosion, or by a key that has been copied one time too many. We extract the broken piece, cut a fresh key, and service or replace the cylinder so you are not standing there again next week. We work with most common residential and commercial lock types, from entry knobs and deadbolts to lever handles and standard commercial door hardware.
Lost Or Stolen Keys
If a house key or a set of shop keys goes missing, the safe move is to rekey the locks that key opened rather than wait for it to turn up, and that goes double if the ring carried anything with your address on it. We rekey at the property, cut the new keys you need, and can make duplicate and spare keys so the next one that disappears is an annoyance instead of an emergency.
