Residential Locksmiths

Home Locks Fitted Right the First Time

Precision Locksmith looks after houses, townhouses and flats throughout Bryanston and Johannesburg, and every call-out begins the same way — a look at the door, the frame and the hardware already on it before a single tool comes out of the van. A key that needs jiggling or a bolt that scrapes its keep is usually an alignment fault rather than a dead lock, and knowing which you have is the difference between a small repair and paying for hardware you did not need. Our technicians work through the night, so a door that jams at midnight gets the same unhurried diagnosis as a booked appointment.

What We Fit, Repair and Replace at Home

• Residential and commercial lockouts
• Rekey existing locks
• Installation of new locks
• Window locks
• Patio bolts
• Deadlocks and locksets
• Digital locks
• High-security locks
• Key cutting and duplication

Supplying Hardware That Suits the Door

Locks can be supplied keyed to the keys you already carry, so one key still opens everything it used to, or fitted as a fresh set where the old cylinders are worn past saving. The range runs from ordinary mortice locksets through to high-security cylinders with protected key profiles, and the sensible choice depends on the door material, how far the frame has settled and what your insurer expects to see. We bring the options to the door and explain what each one actually resists, rather than talking you into the most expensive item on the shelf.

Rekeying: The Precise Alternative to Full Replacement

A handover almost never comes with every key that was ever cut for the place — copies drift off to agents, tenants, gardeners and contractors over the years, and nobody can tell you how many are out there. Rekeying re-pins the cylinder you already own so it accepts a brand-new key and rejects every older one, which retires the strays in an afternoon and costs far less than replacing sound lock bodies. In most cases we do it on the doorstep and hand over the new set before leaving.

A Straight Answer on What You Already Have

Plenty of homes are still running on the builder's original locksets, which will hold a door closed but give way quickly to levering. We test what is fitted — how far the bolt throws, whether the keep lines up, how much play has crept into the cylinder — and then tell you plainly which doors are worth upgrading and which are perfectly sound as they stand. Where a change makes sense, deadlocks, high-security cylinders and digital access are priced against what that particular door is guarding instead of being bundled into one package for the whole house.

Homes right across Bryanston and Johannesburg are covered at any hour, and the person who answers can usually tell you what the job is likely to involve before a van is dispatched. Ring 064 977 1867 whenever a lock stops behaving — there is no time of day we do not work.