Someone pried at the gate latch overnight, and now the strike plate hangs by one screw and the cylinder spins loose in its housing. The gate still closes, technically, but a firm shoulder is all it would take to open it from outside.
A building outlives its tenants, and every move-out that skips a rekey leaves one more key in circulation that nobody living there today can account for. This service treats that turnover as routine business: the shared entry's cylinder is rekeyed to a fresh combination, new keys are cut for everyone who currently needs one, and any gate on the same property that should share that key is brought along to match. What used to be an open question about who can get in becomes a short, current list.
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Gate & Building Entry Locks · Mississauga
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A closer cannot be judged on its own, because a gate that slams or drifts open is often fighting hinges or a post that have moved. The locksmith checks the closer's current adjustment, the condition of its arm and fittings, and then the hinges or pivots the gate hangs from, along with whether the post itself still stands square. Separating a closer problem from a hinge or post problem here avoids replacing a perfectly sound closer that was only ever fighting a leaning post, or the reverse case.
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Once the gate or door's swing has been read, the closer is adjusted in stages: overall closing speed, the final push that seats the latch, and how firmly the last few centimetres land. Each change is tested by cycling the gate several times before moving to the next adjustment, rather than guessing at a single setting. Where the arm, fittings or fluid are worn beyond adjusting, the closer is replaced with one sized to the gate's weight and width. The aim is a gate that swings its full arc, slows near the end, and settles into the latch on its own every time.
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If the visit involved a rekey, every current resident, tenant or key holder leaves with a key cut to the new combination, and a short written note of who received one. Anyone who moved out before the change is now holding a key that no longer fits whichever gate or door was rekeyed, though it may still turn any other cylinder on the property that kept its old combination. Where several gates or doors were brought onto the same key, each one is tested in your hand before the locksmith leaves, so you are not left guessing which key opens which gate the next time you need one after dark.
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Twice a year, work the lubricant the cylinder maker specifies into the keyway and cycle the key a few times; the wrong product for that model can collect grit or gum up the mechanism instead of helping it. Check that the closer still settles the gate into the latch without slamming, and look at hinges or post hardware for movement, especially after a hard winter. A cylinder that starts needing a wiggle, or a gate that has begun to drag, is worth addressing while it is still a small adjustment.
The locksmith first looks over the damage without disturbing it, noting pry marks, a bent strike or a cylinder that has been scored or spun, since that record is useful to have regardless of what else follows. Any hardware that was compromised is replaced rather than trusted, and a weak point the attempt exposed, such as an undersized hasp or a strike with too little bite, is addressed at the same time so the same approach would not work a second time.
It is worth doing, since a move-out is exactly the situation a rekey is meant to cover: a former tenant's key still operates the same lock everyone currently living there relies on. Rekeying resets the cylinder to a fresh combination and issues new keys to current residents, without requiring a whole new lock in most cases. Bringing any other gates or doors that share that key along at the same time keeps the whole property on one current combination.
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Gate & Building Entry Locks · Erin Mills, Erindale, Erindale Woodlands, Sheridan Homelands, Sherwood Forrest
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Someone pried at the gate latch overnight, and now the strike plate hangs by one screw and the cylinder spins loose in its housing.
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