Locked Out Inside Your Garage?

Some people use the front door of their home as their main point of entry when getting into their house. Others however, go through their garage. Often times when a locksmith gets a call for a garage lockout, it is the inner garage door that people are referring to being locked out of. The reference is for the door inside the garage that is being used as a point of entry to the house from the interior of the garage itself.  

This type of lockout situation is considered the same thing as a normal house lockout because you are still locked out of your house. When you call a licensed, bonded, and insured locksmith in Salem to come let you in, make sure you let them know that you can get into the garage itself, but you need access to the door that leads into the house. This has caused some confusion in the past. When the locksmith arrives he can easily get you into the correct door that way. 

The first method that a locksmith will attempt to use in order to get the lock on the door opened is by picking the lock. He will use a tension wrench and a lock pick of his choice and try to pick the lock by moving the pins upwards. If the locksmith is unable to pick the lock with one pick, he will most likely try another. A locksmith will usually continue this way of changing picks until he will be able to unlock the lock.

If for some reason the lock cannot be picked, the locksmith will try to shim the lock. Shimming a lock is when the locksmith uses a card, normally a fake credit card of some sort, and trying to slide it between the locking mechanism and the strike plate. What it does, is pressing the locking bolt back inside the lock in order to simulate a situation where the knob or handle are turned and in return allowing opening of the door. Both methods a Salem locksmith will try use does absolutely no damage to the locks.  

File Cabinet Lockout

Have you ever needed your birth certificate or other important documents and realized that you lost the key to your file cabinet? How would you think to get your file cabinet open? You could break it but that would be a waste of money. Why not call a local Salem locksmith? They provide lockout services and could come out and open it with little to no damage.

Best case scenario they get it open with no damage to the file cabinet. Worst case scenario they would have to drill the lock. A file cabinet can be easier for the locksmith to pick. A file cabinet lock consists of wafers that are easier for the locksmith to manipulate with pick tools than a door lock with pins. The wafers are small and closer together that is why it has a smaller key than a door.

With a cabinet lock the wafers do not have top pins and springs that push the bottom pins down. Wafer locks consist of small wafers that are closer together making it easier to get into position for the lock to unlock. When the locksmith picks a cabinet lock it can be harder because there is little room to arrange the picks correctly. Once in the right position, the locksmith will have little to no problems picking the lock.

Are you concerned the lock may get damaged from the locksmith picking the lock? When the locksmith is picking the lock, it causes no damage to the lock. What the picking process does is essentially manipulating the lock to make it think the key is in the lock. There is no damage to the lock when they pick it. Once the cabinet is picked the locksmith will put the core back to the original position and the key if found, will work the lock just fine.

New Year New Keys

Over the course of a year a lot of thing happen in people’s lives that require giving keys to others. Often times we don’t always remember who has a key or not, and we honestly can never tell if someone has made a copy of that key or not. One very successful way to eliminate the worry of who has what key to where, is to call a Salem locksmith and have your locks re-keyed. The re-keying process is often times rather simple. You get to keep your current look and style of  the locks, the only thing that changes are the tumbler pins inside of them as well as the the keys.

A licensed, bonded, and insured locksmith service in Salem will be the best way to have all of your locks re-keyed at the same time. Depending on the amount of locks that you have and need redone would depend on the amount of time it would take to have the process completed. One lock could take as little as five minutes. If you have a larger house with more locks, the time frame could be around the two-hour range.

And if you are wondering about re-keying smart locks and worried that it isn’t possible, put that worry to rest. A good locksmith can re-key a smart lock, just like any other as long as you have the original key that went with the smart lock. Often times re-keying smart locks is easier and takes a lot less time than a standard lock.

It is a good practice to have the locks in any home re-keyed at least once a year, especially to keep extra keys from floating around in the wrong hands. A locksmith’s job is to help keep you feeling safe and protected in your home. Re-key services are one of the most effective ways to do that. They will get it done in a timely and efficient manner and test every lock to guarantee their work. 

Residential Electronic Locks

At Premier NW Locksmith Salem, we're focused on equipping your home with the most ideal security so you can have your peace of mind when it comes to the security of your home. In case you're searching for something a more cutting edge and secure than conventional locks, why not give an opportunity for key-less entry lock systems?

From the innovation of the first lock system to the present, locks have been enhanced and rethought. Creative locksmiths formed locks into advanced electronic security lock systems that adds confident in the security of one's property. Locks began essentially with the wooden pin lock. As locks began to develop, advance mechanisms like the warded lock were starting to evolve. Forms of locks like the lever tumbler type and pins as well are the premise for secures still utilized in locks today. When so many advance technology locks are available in the market, why stay with obsolete locking frameworks? When you pick an electronic key lock for your home, you move past the standard tumbler locks into the universe of high security with key-less lock systems.

As opposed to utilizing tumblers, electronic locks work with the use of power to control the lock operations. Utilizing various types of motors, magnets, or solenoids, electronic lock system provide or take power from the circuit that activates the lock itself. making sure the lock is getting power if using batteries or other energy source is important, however it's a minor detail to bother with as opposed to constantly dealing with a key and what revolve around maintaining a traditional lock system secure.

There are a couple of basic electronic locks with distinctive confirmation routines. Most home electronic locks use numerical keypads. Once the keypad lock is introduced by one our professional technicians, you can set the numerical code that will permit you to lock and open your entryway, keeping your home protected and secure. Different components like interim key codes for sitters or contractual workers offer extra comfort. You can utilize an electronic key-less entry lock by itself or with the addition of the traditional key in cylinder function. For a really best in class electronic locking solution, you can even have a lock which will work with a fob or a Smartphone as well.

While picking an electronic lock, we prescribe backing it up with other efforts to establish safety. An addition of a traditional cylinder core lock can be useful if the batteries are low in your electronic lock. We additionally suggest introducing security alarm frameworks, checking that your entryways are strong and pivots are in great condition, and always to remember to lock your entryways when you leave your home. In the event that you have any issues with your electronic lock, you can simply contact us. Our locksmith technicians are acquainted with different key-less lock frameworks from keypads to fobs and bio-metrics as well. Modernize the security of your home with electronic lock framework today!