Most Common Locksmith Jobs

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Locked out of your home and you called a locksmith? You are not alone. Robert Campbell, owner of Advantage Locksmith in New York City, says the majority of his clients are people locked out of their homes. Therefore, the most common job is changing a cylinder, that is changing a lock to another key. Necessarily, when people are locked out, they are often ending up changing the cylinder.  When people have lost their keys and are locked out of their homes, he often has to open the door and change the cylinder and give them new keys. A person getting locked out of his car is another popular job. People get nervous, they’re looking for a spot, under pressure, looking for change for the meter and they realize they have locked themselves out of their car.

Safety Precautions:

Campbell says he also often change the locks because it is safe and responsible. Anytime someone moves into an apartment or buys a home, you have to change the locks. Regardless of how safe you feel or what the realtor told you, if you are going to move into a new home and you are going to live there and you are going to keep all your possessions in that one location, to not change your locks is just asking for trouble.

Anytime someone moves from one place to another, we change the cylinder. Also, anytime someone suspects that his keys are lost or stolen or copied, change the cylinder. Anytime people in residential buildings feel they have a super who has the keys and something suspicious has happened, we change the cylinder. When roommates split up, or there is a domestic dispute, he changes the cylinder.

Business Security:

Anytime someone who is terminated from a business who has had keys, you should always change the locks. You cannot allow him access to the location once he doesn’t work there anymore. You must assume that the person has made copies of the keys and could be disgruntled. If you let someone go and you think, “He was a good guy. He will never be back,” then you are just asking for trouble. I’ve heard people say, “I let this guy go a month ago, I never thought he would come back and he showed up this morning and two computers are gone.”

At a business where someone was fired, as locksmiths, Campbell says he changes the front door, the back door, the side door locks and gives them new padlocks for the roll-down gate. Sometimes, he changes the combination for the safe too. It encompasses a lot of different things when the safety of a business is involved.

Campbell says that you can never be too carefully when protecting your personal safety or your livelihood.

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