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What to Do After a Burglary

What to Do After a Burglary

What to do after a Home Burglary – Locksmith Recommended Even with the best home security setup, your home can still be robbed. Door locks and alarms are meant to deter burglars and encourage them to look at other houses instead of yours. Most often that’s enough to protect your home, but sometimes it is not. Home Invasion Being a victim of a home invasion is very disruptive and emotionally draining. The emotional trauma caused Read More
  Categories : Home Security & Locks, Safety & Security Blog
How to Become a Locksmith

How to Become a Locksmith

Everything You Need to Know to Become a Locksmith Are you interested in becoming a locksmith? You may be wondering: What skills are required? How much do locksmiths make? What training is needed? And more. Those answers will depend on several factors, one of the biggest is where you live. In general: Requirements to becoming a locksmith vary from state to state but the most common path to locksmithing requires: skills training, background checks, locksmith Read More
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How to Reinforce an Entry Door – 6 Easy Steps

How to Reinforce an Entry Door – 6 Easy Steps

How to Reinforce an Entry Door, Affordably, in 6 Easy Steps Your home protects some of the most important things in your life: your family and your possessions. But the main line of home defense, the front door, can be bypassed in a number of ways and as quickly as 5 seconds when steps have not been taken to better secure the entry door. In this article we address: how to reinforce a door to Read More
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How to Lock Outdoor Gates – Gate Lock Options

How to Lock Outdoor Gates – Gate Lock Options

Support our Articles / Videos Support Our Blog! Outdoor Gate Locking Mechanisms – How Best to Lock a Gate A Mechanical, Keyless Gate Lock Option Residential, community and commercial gates can be secured in a variety of ways. Which is best depends on the type of gate you have, what you are trying to achieve by locking the gate and your budget. Your options to lock a gate are padlocks, standard door locks, gate-specific keyed Read More
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Sargent IC Core Pinning Calculator – How to Pin Sargent IC Cores

Sargent IC Core Pinning Calculator – How to Pin Sargent IC Cores

Sargent IC Core Pinning Calculator for 3 Level Master Key Systems When we received a call from a major sports team to rekey their entire facility we were excited. Then we learned they had Large Format IC Cores (LFIC) and our excitement quickly faded. This customer wanted a three-level master key system: a grand master key that worked everything, a sub-master keys for each division, and change keys (individual keys that work only one door). Read More
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The Best Padlocks for 2020 – Locksmith Recommended

The Best Padlocks for 2020 – Locksmith Recommended

What is the Best Padlock for Your Application? Padlocks come in different sizes, with different ways to open and with different levels of security. They can be priced from just a few dollars to several hundreds of dollars. But which is the best padlock for you? Over the course of 20 years as a locksmith business we definitely have an opinion on the subject. For those wanting our top picks, our recommended best padlocks are: Read More
  Categories : Commercial Door Hardware & Security, Home Security & Locks
Where Can I Get a Car Key Made

Where Can I Get a Car Key Made

Where to Get Car Keys Made Depending on the car you have, the options available to you will be different, as there are many different types of car keys. Car key copies are generally the easiest to get, but if you need a car key originated (when you’ve lost all of your car keys) your choices of getting a key made are more limited. The cost of making a car key will also depend on Read More
  Categories : Auto Locksmithing - Keys, Remotes, Ignitions, Locks
8 Things to Try When Your Car Key Won’t Turn the Ignition

8 Things to Try When Your Car Key Won’t Turn the Ignition

My Car Key Won’t Turn in the Ignition – What Can I do? Key Won’t Turn in IgnitionIt’s the worse possible scenario and it always seems to happen at the wrong time. You head out to your car, put your key in, and it won’t turn the ignition. What should you do? Ignition cylinders are made out of wafers and those wafers bend, crack and break over time. There are usually some warning signs, but Read More
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Basic Equipment & Tools Needed to be a Locksmith

Basic Equipment & Tools Needed to be a Locksmith

What Locksmith Equipment & Tools are Needed to Run a Locksmith Business Fully outfitted locksmith service vehicle. The tools you will need to become a locksmith are key cutting machines (for key origination and duplication), software for code retrieval, lock picks, and a variety of small tools. This list talks about the basic locksmith tools and locksmith equipment necessary to get started and perform the most common locksmith services. As you grow your skill set, Read More
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What is the Best Safe – 5 Things to Look for When Buying a Safe

What is the Best Safe – 5 Things to Look for When Buying a Safe

What is the Best Safe to Buy? Is the cheapest safe the best safe? Big-box stores like Costco carry large safes for under $700. But what do you get for that money? No. Cheap safes are built cheap to be sold cheap. They do not protect their content. Check out this quick video clip that shows what you get when you buy a discount safe. Is this what you want protecting your money and collections? Read More
  Categories : Safes and Safe Information, Safety & Security Blog
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