Commercial Locksmith Balwyn

The useful starting point is rarely "which lock" but "who needs to open what, and when". A single tenancy with two staff needs something very different from a suite where a cleaner, a bookkeeper and three practitioners all arrive at different hours. Once that picture is clear, the keying arrangement follows: separate keys where areas must stay private, a master arrangement where one person needs everything, restricted keys where uncontrolled copying is the real risk.

• Front-of-house, back-of-house and storeroom separation
• Master and sub-master keying so managers hold one key rather than six
• Restricted key systems where duplication needs to be controlled
• Rekeying when a staff member leaves and a key does not come back

Aluminium shopfront doors, glass entries and commercial timber doors all fail in predictable ways: worn cylinders that need a wiggle before turning, mortice locks that stop throwing cleanly, closers that let a door slam until the latch is out of alignment. Left alone, these become the reason a shop cannot open on a Saturday morning. Addressing them while they are still an annoyance is considerably cheaper than addressing them as an emergency.

In leased premises it pays to be clear about who authorises what. Many changes are the tenant's to make; others touch base-building hardware, fire-rated doors or common areas and need the landlord or managing agent involved. We will flag when that is the case. Where a property manager coordinates several tenancies, we can deal with them directly so you are not relaying messages.