Arnold sits on the north side of the Severn River, and we cover the whole community: College Parkway, the Route 2 corridor and the streets of the Broadneck peninsula. House, business and car lockouts, rekeys and hardware work, day or night.
Arnold grew up in the second half of the twentieth century. Most of its housing is subdivision stock from the 1960s through the 1990s, which means a great many homes are still working with the locks and knobs that were fitted when they were built.
That hardware is now at the age where it stops being reliable. The good news is that most of it can be serviced, rekeyed or upgraded without touching the doors themselves.
What we do in Arnold
Residential Locksmith
A local, licensed locksmith for your home or apartment. We open locked doors around the clock, rekey locks so old keys stop working, fit and repair deadbolts and doorknobs, and upgrade the hardware on the doors that matter most. The van comes to you.Learn moreCommercial Locksmith
Locksmith work for offices, storefronts, warehouses and rental property. We open commercial doors, fit and repair heavy-duty locks, rekey after staff turnover so former keys stop working, and install the security hardware that protects the building after hours.Learn moreAutomotive Locksmith
Locked out of your car, or down to your last key? We open vehicles without damage, cut replacement keys on site, program transponder keys and key fobs, and repair door locks and ignition cylinders. We come to you, at any hour.Learn more
Builder-grade hardware reaching end of life
A lock fitted to a new house in 1975 has had fifty years of use. The cylinder is worn, the key is loose in the plug, and the knob has started to droop. It is not a failure of the house; it is simply the end of the hardware’s working life.
Expensive locks are not automatically the answer. The useful upgrade is a correctly fitted deadbolt with a solid strike and long screws into the frame, plus hardware on the back and side doors that is as good as the front.
Where the existing knobs and deadbolts are sound, rekeying is usually all a household needs, and it costs a fraction of replacement.
Homes near the Severn River
Properties close to the Severn River and the creeks behind Arnold see more corrosion than inland houses. Exterior cylinders and steel hardware take the worst of it.
A key that turns hard, or a bolt that needs a nudge, is usually telling you the cylinder needs cleaning and proper lubrication rather than a new lock. That is a small job, and doing it early is cheaper than a seized mechanism later.
On doors exposed to the weather, it is worth choosing hardware that is up to the position rather than replacing like with like every few years.
Rentals and turnover near the college
Arnold is home to Anne Arundel Community College, and student rentals and shared houses turn over on a schedule. Every change of occupant raises the same question: who still has a key?
Rekeying between tenancies answers it, without replacing sound hardware. For a shared house with several tenants and a landlord, keyed-alike front and back doors plus a record of who holds what prevents most of the arguments.
Students often lose keys, and a lost key is not always reported. Rekeying at the changeover is the practical fix.
Cars along the Route 2 corridor
Route 2 carries most of the traffic through Arnold, and its car parks and side streets are where keys get left behind: gym bags, shopping, a coat pocket on a cold morning.
We open vehicles without damage and can cut and program replacement keys for most common cars on the spot, including chipped and keyless models.
If you only have one working key, make a spare while you have something to copy. That is the difference between a small job and a difficult one.
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