Residential Locksmith Services

Avalon Locksmiths provides residential locksmith services to homes throughout the St. John’s area. We serve St. John’s, Mount Pearl, Conception Bay South and the Avalon Peninsula with expert advice and profession installation of locks and security hardware products.

We believe physical security is the best security: cameras may show you what happened and alarms may let you know when it happened but locks, reinforcements, window bars and security doors will stop it from happening in the first place.

Some of our Residential Locksmith Services include:

  • Lock Changes / Rekeying Services – To lock out old key holders, tenants, or when buying a new property or first moving in
  • Security Improvements – To decrease your changes of facing a burglary or home invasion
  • Emergency Access Services  – For when you are locked out due to a misplaced key or a lock failing to work properly
  • Emergency Repairs – To repair a broken lock so you can lock-up for the night or to repair the damage from a forced entry or burglary
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Door Reinforcer & Interlocking Latch Guard Installed

Poor quality deadbolts sold in hardware stores can be broken very easily and open without power tools. These locks have to be changed. We replace them with locks that this can never happen to. These locks are often expensive and have novelty features and are marketed to the non professional do-it-yourself market.

Broken Doors Due to Forced Entry

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Home Security Improvements

Burglars use various methods gain entry to a home including both methods involving forced entry where the damage is usually immediately visible and surreptitious methods in which there may be no sign of entry at all.

Forced entry includes kicking doors in, prying them open, wrenching a lock off, ice picking through the door to damage or manipulate the lock, hammering a lock off and even to breaking through a window or wall and reaching through to unlock a lock and gain entry.

You may also experience a break-in without any sign of entry. An intruder may use lock picking, lock bumping or other methods to gain entry to your home leaving no signs other than a unlocked door, missing belongings or a messed up house.

There are many ways of reducing the chances of experiencing an unauthorized entry to your home and we can help you to identify what’s best for the unique needs of your property.

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Security Sliding Screen Door

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Security Hardware for Sliding Glass Doors

Door Spy Multi-Directional Door Viewer

  • Considerations for Sliding Glass Doors

    When improving the security of sliding glass doors we need to consider their unique vulnerabilities. Sliding Glass doors usually have very weak handle locks that can be rocked and pried open and often the sliding sash (the glass panel that moves) can be lifted right out of the track from the outside. We have special products designed for the unique needs of sliding glass doors including locks that can provide access from the outside by a key while stile providing a high level of security.

  • Identifying Visitors

    The ability to identify visitors can be a nice feature for an extra level of security when visitors come to your door. Door viewers allow you to keep the door closed as you identify visitors and flip bars (you often find them in hotel rooms) or door chains can be installed to allow you to open the door a couple of inches to identify your visitor while maintaining some level of security or provacy.

  • Rental Property & Rental Suite Considerations

    Do you want your tenants to leave their doors unlocked? Your tenants may not be as considerate of your property as you would like them to. Consider installing an automatic locking lock such as a “storeroom” function knob or lever set or a dead-latch for the entry to your rental unit. This is even more important a consideration when you are renting furnished suites or when the rental suite is attached to your home. A neglectful tenant can easily put your property at risk. Locks that lock every time the door is closed can prevent this from happening.