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Smart locks use electronic mechanisms to unlock a door, rather than mechanical, such as turning the lock cylinder with a key. They can be controlled remotely using a smartphone and often include additional features such as prox card/FOB entry, fingerprint...
How to Replace Lost Car Keys Making keys is one of the services that local automotive locksmiths and car dealers provide. A locksmith can replace lost car keys using the VIN number of your car. This is the most affordable key origination...
Jump to: Determine if the Lock can be Rekeyed to Your Existing Key Several Rekeying Options How to Rekey a Lock Yourself Determine if Locks Can Use the Same Key Say you've bought a home, but there are one or...
Proof of Ownership Before Opening Your Property I'm the first to admit it, our company can be a pain. It's true. But this is a good thing. Legitimate locksmiths will verify proof of ownership before opening any property for you...
The Issues Locking Chain Link Gates Chain link fences can be the most difficult to lock. A standard welder cannot weld to the galvanized metal used in chain link fences, so using lock boxes, that deadbolts or keyless locks can...
There are various reason you'd want to use a keyless gate lock on your gates. But what are your options? How do the gates need to be changed to support a keyless solution? Let's discuss. Keyless gate locks are more...
How to Open a Safe Without a Key or Combination Safes are suppose to protect property, right? The sad news is that many of the inexpensive safes bought at big box stores or major online shopping sites offer very little...
Cost to Open a Safe Opening a locked safe is not as cut and dry as people think it is. We are often asked how much it will cost to get into a safe, but the charges are all over...
Everything to Know to Be a Locksmith Are you interested in being a locksmith? You may be wondering: What skills are required? How much do locksmiths make? What training is needed? Just how do you become a locksmith? As the...
The top ranked search results for how much locksmiths charge in 2022 are all wrong. Those sites that Google "thinks" are important are not written by locksmiths. They’re written by marketing teams for large companies that have no clue about...
Best Security Improvements You Can Make to Your Storefront Door While completing commercial door hardware services , we are often asked, "What are the best things I can do to protect my business from a robbery or break in?" There...
Tubular Safe Key Made Some manufactures, typically inexpensive safe manufacturers, provide keys as either the main method of opening the safe or as a secondary method to get into the safe. A keyed lock is less expensive than dials or...
The Inside Half of a Smart Lock is Not Made Weather Resistant Can You Install a Smart Lock on Outdoor Gates? With residential lock technology making big advances in the past two years, our Gate Lock and Gate Closer Service...
Review of the Schlage Encode Smart Lock by ACME Locksmith 2022 has been a great year for electronic deadbolt smart locks. Three of the major players have introduced new smart lock deadbolts and levers in just the past few months...
This article focuses on residential smart locks, which are almost always a bad solution for commercial applications. See our page on commercial access control systems. In 2020 lock manufacturers finally got the concept of smart locks dialed in for the...
Strike Type Portable Door Lock sold on Amazon. Portable door locks are locks that you take with you to secure a door other than your home’s. They are meant primarily for doors that don’t have keyed locks on them or...
For general information on waterproof safes, and what it means for a safe to have a waterproof rating, see our article, “Are Safes Waterproof.” Is a Gun Safe Waterproof? Gun Safes Are Not Watertight Gun safes are not waterproof because...
I Need a Waterproof Safe! Is This Safe Waterproof? We hear this a lot at ACME Locksmith, but can a safe be waterproof? It comes down to a couple of questions: how much water and for how long. There are...
Using a Door Wrap to Cover a Door Hole How to Cover a Door Hole What do you do when you have a door that has a hole pattern for a previous lockset, but the new lockset holes don't line...
CH751 RV Compartment Key Your RV Locks Can be Opened by the Same Key One key will open the compartments of nearly all RVs, the CH751 key. The CH751 keys is a universal key. If your RV compartments use this...