Getting locked out of your business is a disruptive experience. Your employees can find themselves unable to begin working, your customers can remain locked out, your deliveries can get missed, and your appointments can go wrong.

New York Commercial Locksmith offers emergency commercial lockout services for offices, stores, restaurants, warehouses, apartments buildings, healthcare facilities, and other commercial properties. Our goal is to resolve the lockout in the fastest and safest way possible without unnecessary damage to your lock, door, and hardware around them.

Reasons for Commercial Lockout

Business lockout doesn’t necessarily have to do with a lost key. There are a number of components of commercial doors, and a failure of any of those components may result in your inability to enter the premises.

Here are some common causes of lockout:

• Stolen or missing keys

• Keys jammed inside the cylinder

• Worn out lock parts

• Locked latches

• Misaligned doors

• Panic bars malfunctions

• Dead keypad batteries

• Key cards disabled

• Electric strikes failed

• Magnetic lock damaged

It is essential to figure out whether the problem is related to your key, lock cylinder, latch, exit device, door misalignment, or electronics of the system.

Methods of Opening a Door without Causing Harm

In most cases, our locksmiths will try to open the door using a technique that allows preserving the existing hardware, whenever possible. Our expert technician will be able to diagnose the problem and carry out the necessary repairs including unlocking a stuck key, fixing the cylinder, repairing the jammed lock, adjusting the strike, repairing the exit device, or fixing the door alignment.

If there is considerable damage to the hardware, internal failure, or if the hardware is intended to resist attempts at lockouts, then drilling or replacing the lock might be required and in case there is a need to replace the lock, we can first discuss the commercial grade hardware options that can be installed.

Electronic Security System Lockouts

Some common causes of failure in a lock that uses a keypad or a card reader, a smart lock or an electric strike magnetic lock include:

• Wiring problems

• Loss of power supply

• Dead batteries

• Expired access permissions

• Reader malfunction

• Damage to the mechanical latch

• Control panel failure

• Door is not aligned

Using force to open an electronic security system lock could lead to damage to expensive hardware. It would be wise to hire a commercial locksmith to examine the mechanical and electrical parts of the locking mechanism to find out what led to the lockout.

Key Loss and Safety of the Property

Finding a way back into the office solves the problem, but the risk remains since the key has been lost, therefore our lock rekey services will be suggested if the key is lost so that it stops working. Another issue that must be immediately handled is lost access cards and key fobs, ey must be disabled as soon as possible in order to prevent any security breach, if a shared entry code was used and the credential falls in the hands of someone who does not belong there, a new one will be provided.

Prevention of Future Lockouts

Once we are done opening the lock, we will determine why a lockout happened in the first place. The preventative measures might include key replacements, making controlled duplicates, repairing the door, rekeying, installing a lock with a keyless entry, and improving the key management process of the business.

We have made it our goal to assist businesses of this wonderful and thriving city in restoring safe and secure access and for their properties.