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Help! I’ve Lost the Key to My Safe! Replacement Safe Keys Made If you’re looking for how to open a safe when you’ve lost the combination check out our other blog post. Here we are talking about safes or lock boxes that take keys or have key overrides to open Read More

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Are There Smart Locks For Outdoor Gates?

The Inside Half of a Smart Lock is Not Made Weather Resistant Can You Install Smart Locks on a Gate? With residential lock technology making big advances in the past two years, our locksmith shops get asked this question almost daily. There is a big demand from customers wanting to Read More

Categories : Commercial Door Hardware & Security, HOA & Community Lock Services, Keyless Entry / Access Control, Pool Gate Security

Best Smart Locks of 2022 – Detailed Comparison

In 2020 lock manufacturers finally got the concept of smart locks dialed in for the average consumer. Gone are the complicated hardware and software components to set them up, the apps that run them are more intuitive to the end users, and the designs are now compatible with standard door Read More

Categories : Home Security & Locks, Keyless Entry / Access Control, Safety & Security Blog

Are Portable Door Locks Effective?

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 doors that someone else can access via a key, access Read More

Categories : Home Security & Locks, Safety & Security Blog

Are Gun Safes Waterproof?

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 of how they are constructed. To protect them from burglary, Read More

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Are Safes Waterproof?

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 a number of reasons why you might want a water-proof Read More

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How to Cover Door Holes

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 up? That is, the old hole and the new hole Read More

Categories : Safety & Security Blog

Are All RV Keys the Same?

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 key, the keys and locks in your RV are the Read More

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The Best Sliding Glass Door Lock

What is the Best Lock for Sliding Glass Doors? When your arcadia, sliding glass door lock gets old, it is likely to fail. Cal Double Bolt Lock, Buy Online at ACME Locksmith While you could simply replace what you have with the identical item, doing so won’t benefit the security Read More

Categories : Child Proof Locks, Home Security & Locks

Best Video Doorbells of 2022

2022 Video Doorbell Comparison – Which is the Best Doorbell Camera? If you subscribe to the ACME Locksmith YouTube channel, you know that I love the Video Door bell I use on my home by Skybell and you’ve probably watched me unbox and install another favorite of mine, the Read More