Cores
Interchangeable cores
A building keyed on IC cores can be re-keyed in minutes, with the hardware left on the doors. Best, Schlage and Arrow.
Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Family owned since 2001.
Re-keys, lockouts, and car keys cut on Newport Avenue since 2001.
A local locksmith shop with two counters four minutes apart. Call and someone who does this every day will tell you what the job takes, what it costs, and whether you need us at all.
Inside the shop
Walk the counter before you call
Nothing here is a stock photograph. This is the hardware that came across the bench at 578 Newport Avenue, photographed on the job.
Levers
Lever sets, fitted and keyed
Lever handle locks going on with the keys already cut, so the door is finished in one visit rather than two.
Commercial
Grade hardware for doors that get used
Commercial grade and high security cylinders for doors that are opened four hundred times a day and have to keep locking.
Fobs
Proximity keys, programmed
Proximity keys, transponders, remote head keys and remote start keys, programmed at the counter rather than at a dealership.
In the car
Some of it happens in the car
Column repairs, VATS keys remade, and keys cut by code when every original is gone. Bring the car, or call and ask first.
Three lanes, one shop
Homes, businesses and vehicles. All of it goes through the same two counters.
Most locksmiths pick one of these. A Better Locksmith has run all three since 2001, which is why a landlord, a body shop and somebody who has just lost the last key to a Toyota all end up calling the same number.
Homes
Doors opened, locks re-keyed, deadbolts that actually throw
Doors opened and unlocked, broken keys pulled out of cylinders, new home re-keys the week you get the keys, and several locks brought onto one key so you carry one instead of five. Deadbolts, knobs and lock sets, jimmy proof sets, peepholes, patio and garage door locks, mail box locks. Schlage, Kwikset and Arrow.
Free estimates on all work, and a military, police and fire discount. If the door has been forced, the repair and the alignment are part of the same visit.
Residential locksmithingBusinesses
A building is a keying schedule, not a pile of locks
Master key and restricted key systems, interchangeable cores from Best, Schlage and Arrow, high security and commercial grade cylinders, panic bars, exit devices, Detex, door closers, mall gate locks and filing cabinet locks. Business openings, lockouts, lock repair and broken key removal. Bonded and insured.
Commercial locksmithing
Vehicles
Lost every key is the normal case, not the hard one
Original keys made from scratch, keys cut by code, lost keys remade, duplicates, laser keys, VATS keys, transponders, proximity keys and remote head keys. Remotes and remote start keys programmed. Car doors opened, broken keys removed, columns repaired, locks changed.
A Better Locksmith is associated with NASTF, the National Automotive Service Task Force. Senior discounts on automotive work.
Automotive locksmithingThe whole list
If you came here looking for one specific thing, it is probably on this page
Mall gate locks. Filing cabinet locks. Mail box locks. Columns repaired. The work nobody advertises is most of what actually comes across the counter, so here it is, written out.
Homes
- Doors opened and unlocked
- Broken key removal
- Locks and deadbolts re-keyed
- Lock installation
- Deadbolts installed
- New home re-keying
- Re-key locks to fit one key
- Door closer installation
- Peephole installation
- Master key systems
- Break-in door repair
- Real estate
- Foreclosure re-keying
- Jimmy-proof lock set
- Door alignment
- Garage door locks
- Mail box locks
- Knobs and lock sets
- Patio door locks
Businesses
- Business openings
- Lockouts
- Broken key removal
- Re-keying
- Lock and deadbolt installations
- Lever handle locks
- Lock repair
- High-security locks and commercial grade locks
- Master key systems
- Mall gate locks
- Filing cabinet locks
- Door closers
- Panic bars
- Detex
- IC cores: Best, Schlage, Arrow
- Restricted key systems
- Exit devices
- Real estate and bank foreclosures
Vehicles
- Car door unlocking
- Lost keys remade
- Broken key removal
- Laser keys
- Duplicate keys
- Make original keys
- Replace all lock types
- VATS keys remade
- Remote head keys
- Keys made by code
- Locks changed
- Remote programming
- Proximity keys
- Columns repaired
- Transponder keys
- Program new remote start keys
Two counters, four minutes apart
One shop, two doors you can walk into
Keys get cut at the counter while you wait. Locks come in to be re-pinned and go back out on the same key. Both numbers reach the same business, and the same people answer them.
Counter hours are Mon-Fri 8am-4pm. Lockouts do not keep those hours, so emergency service runs outside them.
What people say afterwards
Customers keep naming the same technician
A Better Locksmith holds a 4.9 out of 5 rating from 243 Google reviews. Read a page of them and a pattern shows up: people name Marcel, and they name him for the same two things, doing the work quickly and explaining it while he does it.
Sometimes a "small" problem can result in bigger ones. That's what happened to me. My first call happened to be A Better Locksmith where Marcel took ownership of my key FOB replacement, programming and getting my car up and running in NO time. ALL WITH A CALMNESS and kindness I hardly expected. The price was fair and equitable, my expectations, exceeded! Thanks Marcel. Donna
A+ job. Marcel was a super professional, timely, friendly, and did an excellent job. I had several lock sets re-keyed, and a few deadbolts added. Great work all around. Highly recommend!
Marcel did amazing work replacing old locks and installing new deadbolts. He was very professional and informative
I came across A Better Locksmith after a few unanswered calls from some competitors, and he was at my house in 10 minutes (happened to be in the area). My electronic door locks died and I had been locked out. He got me back into my house quickly and for a very reasonable price. I'll definitely save their number for anything needed in the future! Great work!
Before you call
The questions the shop answers on the phone all day
Two counters in Pawtucket, RI
Tell us what is locked. We will tell you what it takes.
Free estimates on all work, bonded and insured, and twenty five years of Pawtucket doors behind the answer. If the fix is something you can do yourself in two minutes, you will hear that first.