Commercial Locksmith Services in St. Johns, FL

We provide mobile commercial locksmith services to businesses throughout the St. Johns, FL area — including commercial lockout services, commercial lock change services, rekeying & master key systems, lock repairs and push bar installation & service. All work is done at your site, using a fully equipped service van. Call (904) 827-7496 for immediate commercial lockout services, or schedule a visit during your business hours.

There’s a lot more going on in commercial St. Johns than meets the eye. The Pavilion at Durbin Park has many retail and restaurant tenants; CR 210 is dotted with medical, dental and professional suites; SR 13 in Fruit Cove and Julington Creek is filled with daycares, gyms, churches and other commercial buildings. There’s a wide variety of commercial hardware in use, and we can service it at your site.

Commercial Lockout Services

Commercial lockouts can cost money by the minute. Your employees stand around the parking lot, potential customers turn tail, deliveries pile up at an inaccessible door. The Keys Maker unlocks commercial doors without damaging your hardware, unlocking the door with techniques specific to the lock and hardware being used – storefront doors with deadlatch/lock and hookbolts, mortise locks in office suites, keypad doors with dead batteries, and interior office, storage and server closet doors.

And lockouts aren’t always to the outside of the building. Someone leaves with the office keys, a keyring goes missing in the middle of a shift, a stockroom key is broken off in the cylinder. These get the same mobile response as an external door lockout, and almost always finish with a spare key cut on-site to prevent future lockout.

We’ll need some form of verification, such as a lease document, business card, or photo ID that matches the name on file with us as an authorized business contact.

Commercial Lock Change: Mortise Locks, Keypads, and Storefront Hardware

The locksets used on commercial buildings are sturdier than those in homes, and replacing them involves bringing the correct hardware to your site. At The Keys Maker, we install and replace all forms of commercial locks on-site.

One of the commercial locks we need to mention separately are mortise locks. These locks are found in many St. Johns office suites and older buildings. A mortise lock is a complete case that is mounted in the door, containing the latch mechanism, deadbolt and lever handle. Mortise locks are much sturdier than cylindrical locks – but also much harder to install or replace, because every mortise lock set has a specific case width, backset and handing. Replacing a mortise case with a proper replacement rather than downgrading the door to a less-sturdy cylindrical lock maintains the door security level it was originally designed for.

The other popular locks we need to talk about are keypads and electronic locks. In offices with many employees, an office lock and keypad allows you to assign unique codes to each individual and eliminate the need to hand over physical hardware or perform rekeying when an employee leaves your company. Mechanical standalone keypad locks, battery-powered electronic locks and networked smart locks are all available, and the one you choose depends on the door, usage levels and whether you need to track the time and personnel access in detail.

Rekeying and Master Key System

Rekeying consists of replacing the pins in your existing locks, eliminating any existing keys in circulation. It is the right choice when you’ve had employee turnover, you’ve lost your keyring, you have changed cleaning or maintenance companies or have moved into a suite with unknown locks. Usually the entire office can be rekeyed in one visit, with all doors rekeyed to the same level, or divided into subgroups.

When there are many locks in a business, a master key system is a better long-term solution. You have one master key that opens all doors and is intended for your personal use or general manager. Individual keys below the master allow access to specific doors. A medical office on CR 210 can give the receptionist a key to the front doors and reception office, while the records room and pharmacy would be on restricted keys. A restaurant in Durbin Park could put the office and liquor storage on the manager’s key. The Keys Maker designs the master key system from scratch, provides documentation and ensures there is enough room to add new suites or positions later by cutting additional keys.

Commercial Lock Repair

Commercial locks go through cycles residential hardware isn’t expected to withstand. Hundreds of cycles per day, slamming of door closers, pushing against the door with wheeled shopping carts. In these cases, repair is often faster and more convenient than replacement. Some of the repair services performed on-site are loose or drooping levers, slow latching, slow retracting levers or latches, worn mortise locks, misaligned strikes due to door shifting and malfunctioning storefront deadlatches.

Any latch problem with commercial doors needs to be addressed immediately. Doors that require a little extra force to latch will eventually not latch at all. Finding an unlatched back door on a Monday morning is not something you want to happen.

Push Bar Installation and Exit Device Service

Push bars, also known as panic bars and exit devices, are life safety hardware, and according to Florida fire code, all restaurants, gyms, assembly spaces, day cares and many retail stores need to have them installed on designated exit doors. The requirement is straightforward – everyone should be able to exit with one push, without keying the door, without extra procedures.

The Keys Maker installs new push bars, replaces the old push bars and repairs malfunctioning devices that stick, rattle or fail to latch. Some of the options are rim and mortise exit devices, exit devices with exterior key/lever for access as an entry and alarmed push bars for back service doors, where you want exit capability without the extra foot traffic. If your fire inspector has pointed out an exit door requiring push bars, one visit from our service van usually resolves the issue. Any blocking device, such as chains or slide bolts, doesn’t comply with the code.

Mobile Commercial Services Across St. Johns

Whether it’s the Pavilion at Durbin Park, SR 13 corridor, Julington Creek, the office parks off Race Track Road or CR 210 – our service van comes to your business location. During your hours or after your working hours, as lock work on operating storefront is often best accomplished once the customers left.

Commercial lockout right now? Call (904) 827-7496 for fast mobile help. For commercial lock change, rekeying, master key design, lock repair or push bar service, call us for an appointment. The Keys Maker keeps St. Johns businesses operational, secure and compliant with code requirements – at your door, not at our shop.