24/7 emergency lock-out service · Carmel to Monterey
Homes and offices across the Monterey Peninsula — Carmel, Pebble Beach, Monterey, Pacific Grove. We answer 24 hours a day, open the door without damaging it, and can re-key it before we leave. Call and tell us where you are.
What we do
We are a locksmith for buildings: homes, rentals and offices, and the doors that go with them. Most calls are someone locked out of their own front door. We also work for property managers, landlords, realtors and attorneys. We do not do vehicles — if you are locked out of a car, call a roadside service instead.
Locked out of your own property, key snapped off in the cylinder, keys lost, or a tenant who changed the locks without telling you. Call and say where you are — this is the work we drop everything for.
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week — nights, weekends and holidays included. A lock-out does not wait for office hours, so neither do we.
Getting a door open by non-destructive means — picking, bypassing or shimming rather than drilling. The lock survives, the frame survives, and there is nothing to repair afterwards.
Where a lock genuinely cannot be opened without damage, we say so before we start, not after.
Re-pinning existing locks to a new key, so an old key stops working. Faster and cheaper than replacing hardware, and it leaves matching finishes alone.
Standard pins, or an upgrade to security pins — spool and serrated pins that resist picking and bumping.
Meeting the deputy at the appointed time, opening the unit, and re-keying or replacing the locks before we leave — so the property is secure and the owner holds the only key.
Keyed alike on request, so one key runs the whole building again.
Supplying and installing deadbolts, entry sets, closers and strike plates — including fixing the doors where the existing hardware was fitted badly and never quite latched.
For landlords and property managers
Most of our calls are someone locked out of their own place. But an unlawful detainer touches four different trades, and most landlords hire four different people — every handoff a place for the timing to slip. We are registered for all of it.
Prepared as a registered Unlawful Detainer Assistant, Monterey County #0006.
Served and documented by a registered California process server, No. PS0233.
On site at the appointed hour with the tools to open the unit.
Locks re-keyed or replaced under CSLB #1070882 before we leave.
You can hire us for any single step. But when the lock-out is the last move in a case we already handled, nobody has to be told what the writ says.
Licence
B — General Building is the general contractor’s classification: structures requiring at least two unrelated building trades. C-61/D-16 — Hardware, Locks and Safes is the specialty for locks, which the CSLB defines as installing, modifying or repairing power and manually activated door and window locks with related hardware, built-in safes and vaults.
Why the pair matters on a lock-out: under California law a B licence on its own cannot take a prime contract for a job involving only one trade. The D-16 is what makes a single lock call — one re-key, one lock-out, one deadbolt — work we can legally take on its own. Plenty of contractors hold a B. Far fewer hold the lock specialty alongside it.
We have also been a licensed California real estate broker since 1985, DRE No. 00896551. That does not license lock work — the CSLB classification above does — but it is why a lock-out here is handled by someone who knows what it means for the tenancy, the listing or the escrow.
Every one of these numbers is public. Look them up before you let anyone touch your door — ours or anyone else’s.
Coverage
Carmel-by-the-Sea has no street numbers and Pebble Beach is behind gates. We know both, which matters more on a lock-out than it sounds — you are usually standing outside waiting.
Contact
Answered 24/7. Tell us where you are and what the door looks like. Don’t email a lock-out — call.
Better for scheduled work — re-keys, hardware, an eviction date in the calendar.
P.O. Box 3322
Carmel, CA 93921
Serving the Monterey Peninsula and Monterey County.
