A key turned up in the parking lot with the shop's name on its fob. It came back to you, which is lucky, but it means keys are leaving the building on rings you have never seen, and the shop's locks have not changed since opening day.
A commercial rekey is planned around the trading day. The locksmith agrees a window, often after close or before opening, and works door by door so the premises is never left without a locking entrance. Cylinders come out, are repinned at a bench in the van or on a counter, and go back in; interchangeable cores are simply swapped for freshly combinated ones. Each door is tried with both new and old keys before the next is started. New keys go to whoever opens up in the morning, and a written chart of doors and key groups stays with the manager.
Sound familiar?Big Bay Point
Commercial Rekeying · Big Bay Point
Scene 1
The keying plan is a picture of how the business runs, so the assessment asks who goes through which door on a normal day. Front-line staff need the customer entrance and perhaps the stockroom; supervisors add the office; the owner and the bookkeeper hold the cash room; the IT contractor reaches the server closet and nothing else. Out of that conversation come the key groups: doors keyed alike so one key covers a role, doors keyed differently where separation matters, and whether a master for the owner earns its place. The plan also names anything left out on purpose, so the chart shows both what changes and what stays.
Scene 2
The cylinder is taken off the door and its plug is slid out with a follower, a small tube that holds the top pins and springs in place so nothing scatters. The old bottom pins are tipped out, and a new combination is chosen from the pinning records so it does not collide with any other key in the plan. Fresh pins of the matching depths are dropped into each chamber, the plug goes back in, and the new key is tried: it should turn as smoothly as if the lock were new, and the old key should stop dead. The cylinder is then refitted and adjusted so the cam or tailpiece throws the bolt fully.
Scene 3
Alongside the chart comes a key register: each key's stamped code, the person it was issued to, the date, and a line for the date it comes back. Filling it in as keys are handed out on the first morning takes ten minutes and pays off at every departure afterwards, because the question becomes 'return key A-07' rather than 'did she have a key?'. Spare keys are counted too and kept somewhere locked rather than in the drawer where the old tangle lived. When the register and the chart agree with the keys on the hook, the business knows exactly who can open it, which is the whole point of the exercise.
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It needs a plug that rotates without catching, pins that return under their springs, and a face free of heavy corrosion or cracks. Most commercial cylinders in daily use pass easily. Ones that are stiff, gritty or green with salt bloom can sometimes be cleaned and repinned, and the locksmith will say when a replacement for that door is the better value; the rest of the doors are rekeyed regardless.
Between tenants is the ideal moment: the departing tenant has handed back their keys, the new one has not yet received any, and the unit is empty for the work. The incoming tenant then starts on keys nobody else has held, and the landlord's own master or emergency key is set up at the same time. Where a lease has ended in dispute, the locksmith asks to see the paperwork before changing locks on a unit that still holds a tenant's goods.
Read the lease, because that is where the answer lives. Commercial tenancies are governed mostly by the lease itself, and many leases require the tenant to tell the landlord when locks change, to provide a key for emergencies, or to use the landlord's approved locksmith. Doors on the building's master system, such as corridor or service doors, are normally the landlord's to change. Bring the lease to the assessment and the locksmith will sort the doors accordingly.
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