Businesses
A building runs on a keying schedule, not a pile of separate locks
Master key systems, IC cores, and high-security hardware for Pawtucket businesses, bonded and insured.
Chapter 01
A building is a keying schedule, not a pile of locks
Master key systems and restricted key systems solve a commercial building's real problem, because the failure isn't any single door, it's ten years of piecemeal re-keying that ends with a drawer full of keys nobody can account for. A Better Locksmith builds the schedule once, so an office manager knows exactly which key opens which door and which ones open everything. See the re-keying page for how a schedule like that actually gets built out.
Business openings and lockouts get handled the same way a house lockout does, except the stakes are different: a store that can't open on time is losing money every minute the door stays locked, and a locksmith who can restore access without drilling every cylinder in the building is worth calling first.
BEST commercial lever lockset held and fitted at an exterior door
Doors built to survive four hundred uses a day
High-security and commercial grade locks, lever handle locks, panic bars, exit devices, Detex hardware and door closers are all normal commercial installs, spec'd for doors that get opened hundreds of times a shift rather than a handful of times a day the way a house door does.
Interchangeable cores from Best, Schlage and Arrow are the piece that makes a keying schedule actually manageable: an IC core building can be re-keyed in minutes, one small core swapped for another, without pulling a single lockset off a door. That's the difference between a re-key that closes a building for an afternoon and one that closes it for five minutes between meetings.
Chapter 03
The smaller jobs nobody else wants to send a truck for
Filing cabinet locks, mall gate locks, broken key removal, and general lock repair are all work A Better Locksmith takes on alongside the bigger installs, because a business with one broken cabinet lock still needs it fixed, and most shops won't schedule a truck for it. Lock and deadbolt installation and re-keying round out the routine side of commercial work.
Real estate and bank foreclosures are their own category: a property changing hands needs every lock re-keyed before a new owner or tenant gets a key, and it's routine enough here that agents call directly rather than through a property manager.
Bonded, insured, and reachable around the clock
A Better Locksmith is bonded and insured, which matters more on a commercial job than a residential one, since a technician is often working alone in a building after hours or on a weekend. Jill Farnham Etter of Diamond Contractors, on a job in Seekonk, Massachusetts, described the experience from the contractor's side: "They scheduled us immediately. As we went through the process, A Better Locksmith communicated well with prompt attention to all aspects of their work. They were fairly priced as well! When the job was done, they sent us completion photos to wrap up their outstanding work."
Emergency service runs around the clock, because a commercial door that won't lock at closing time isn't a problem that waits until morning. The same shop cuts house keys and car keys too, covered on their own residential and automotive pages, and both Pawtucket counters, 578 Newport Avenue and 314 Power Road, take business accounts, with (401) 475-8007 the number to call first.
A Better Locksmith. Bonded and insured. Call (401) 475-8007.