Lockmasters Inc.

Locksmithing splits into two very different businesses and it helps to know which one you need. There is the emergency side, where somebody is standing outside their own house at eleven at night. Then there is the planned side: rekeying after a move, upgrading hardware, fitting out a commercial building or a strata with a proper key system. This Shell Road operation is set up for the second kind.

Having an actual showroom matters more than people expect. Lock hardware is one of those categories where the difference between a cheap deadbolt and a good one is obvious in the hand and invisible in a photograph, so being able to look at options with somebody who fits them for a living is worth the trip. Residential and commercial repairs, upgrades, rekeys and larger physical security work all sit inside the same scope.

Sort out the emergency question before you have an emergency. Find out who covers callouts in your part of Richmond, put the number in your phone, and do it now rather than on a doorstep in the rain with a phone at four percent. That is the entire lesson of this category.