If you want old keys to stop working- whether because you moved into a new place, lost a keyring, or have someone you’d rather not have access anymore- you do not have to buy entirely new locks. As long as your existing door hardware is structurally sound, lock rekeying achieves the exact same security reset for a fraction of the cost. SOS Mobile Locksmith rekeys homes and businesses across Seattle, finishing the work directly from our mobile trucks.
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Managing rental properties, multi-family apartment complexes, or revolving retail spaces across King County requires strict control over physical keys. When a tenant’s lease ends, or a multi-tenant commercial space changes hands, leaving the old locks in place exposes your property to massive liability.
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Highly Cost-Effective: You are only paying for a few minutes of precision labor and small internal brass pins, rather than purchasing expensive new handlesets, design trim, or heavy-duty commercial lock bodies.
An Honest, Professional Assessment: We check your door hardware thoroughly when we arrive. If your lock is structurally sound, we rekey it and save you money. If the internal cams are worn out or damaged, we will tell you honestly why it’s time to replace it. We do not upsell you hardware you don’t actually need.
We Come Straight to Your Neighborhood: Alki, West Seattle, Columbia City, Ravenna, Phinney Ridge, and across the entire city of Seattle.
Restricted Key Designations: We rekey your cylinders to high-security blanks that cannot be duplicated at standard hardware stores. Copies can only be cut by our team, and only when requested by authorized administrators on your account.
Segmented Key Hierarchies: We can design an elegant system where managers can open an entire floor, employees can only open their specific department door, and cleaning staff can only open designated common areas.
Pick and Bump Resistance: Upgrading your pins to specialized spool or mushroom configurations during the rekeying process makes your existing locks highly resistant to picking, bumping, and manipulation techniques.
Yes, absolutely. Once a cylinder is properly rekeyed, every previous key is dead. The security reset is exactly the same as buying brand-new hardware; you are simply saving money by retaining the solid brass or steel lock bodies you already own.
As long as the locks share the same keyway brand profile (such as Schlage, Kwikset, or Yale), yes, we can key them alike. If you have a mix of different brands on your doors, we can often swap out individual interior cylinders to match your preferred brand, allowing you to achieve a single-key system without buying all new exterior hardware.
No. If the internal gears, springs, or housing of a lock cylinder are cracked, heavily rusted, or failing structurally, rekeying will not fix the problem. In those cases, we will show you exactly where the mechanism is failing and recommend a durable, code-compliant replacement lock body.
In most cases, yes. If your commercial facility uses standard commercial cylinders or SFIC cores, we can decode the existing system, clean out old data, and rekey them into a brand-new master key matrix that limits or grants access based on your current operational needs.
You will get a completely fresh set of identical keys that work across all the locks we rekey for you. If you have specific doors (like a home office or a tenant space) that you want to keep on a separate key, just let our technician know before we start, and we will partition those pin combinations accordingly.
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