The renovation is finished and the contractors have gone, along with the loaner keys they used for six weeks. Trades, delivery drivers and an inspector all came through, and the front door still answers to the key that was passed around the site.
Taking over a commercial unit is the moment to make the locks yours. The keys handed across at signing are only the ones the previous occupant remembered; cleaners, suppliers and former staff may still carry others. Rekeying every cylinder your lease gives you control of gives you a clean start on day one, with keys cut for your team and a chart of which door each one opens. The locksmith also clears up the odds and ends that come with a new lease: a padlock with no key, a mailbox lock seized since the last tenant. You open knowing exactly who can get in.
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Commercial Rekeying · Erin Mills
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The last part of the assessment is practical: when can the work happen, and in what order. A retail shop may prefer the hour after closing; a restaurant, the mid-morning lull; a warehouse, the gap between the last outbound truck and the night shift. The locksmith also asks about deliveries, the cleaning crew, the alarm monitoring company and anyone else who holds a key and needs a new one before their next visit. From this comes a sequence, typically the doors staff use least first and the main entrance last, so there is always a working, lockable way in and out while the cylinders are being changed.
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A business is more than its doors, and the same visit brings the smaller locks into the plan. Rekeyable padlocks on the compound gate, the propane cage or the roll shutter can be pinned to the same key as the back door, so the opening crew carries one key instead of four. Filing cabinets, the till drawer, a medicine or chemical cupboard and the display cases can be keyed alike for the staff who use them or kept separate for the manager. The lobby mailbox, which often still answers to a key from two tenants ago, gets a fresh cylinder or is repinned where its design allows. Each small lock is added to the chart alongside the doors.
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Rekeying changes who can come in; it never changes how people get out. Every exit door and every door on the way to one is left opening from the inside with a single motion and no key. On a door with a panic bar, the outside cylinder simply controls entry, and the bar keeps working exactly as before. Once the locksmith has finished, walk the exit routes yourself, push each bar and turn each thumb-turn, and make that walk a habit at the start of every season so a new deadbolt or a helpful padlock never creeps onto an exit.
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Count the people who need each group, add one spare per group for the safe, and stop there. Extra keys cut 'just in case' are the ones that end up unaccounted for. Because the keys are cut to code from the pinning records, more can be produced later to the same standard, so there is no need to stockpile on the day. Restricted keys are ordered by the named signatories when needed.
Every old key that operated a cylinder included in the plan will stop working, and the locksmith proves it by trying old keys at each door before leaving. Old keys keep working only at openings you chose to leave alone, which are written on the chart so there is no confusion. If a master key existed, it is tested too, since a forgotten master is the most common way an old key stays alive.
Mechanical rekeying leaves electronics alone: alarm panels, card readers and keypads keep their codes and credentials. What changes is the list of people holding keys, and it is worth updating the alarm company's keyholder list and retiring the codes of anyone who has left at the same time, since keys and codes usually walk out together. Where a door has both a card reader and a keyed override, the override cylinder is rekeyed with the rest.
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Commercial Rekeying · Mississauga, Erindale, Erindale Woodlands, Sheridan Homelands, Sherwood Forrest
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The renovation is finished and the contractors have gone, along with the loaner keys they used for six weeks.
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