Edgewater sits south of Annapolis on the South River, and we cover all of it: Selby-on-the-Bay, Loch Haven and the neighbourhoods along Solomons Island Road. House and car lockouts, rekeys, deadbolt work and hardware for waterfront properties, available around the clock.
Edgewater is a waterfront community with two personalities. There are older cottages and small homes that have been added to over decades, and there are newer builds on the same streets. Both sets of doors take a beating from the same damp river air.
It is also a place people drive to and from for everything. A locked-out householder here is not walking to a shop; they need someone to come to the door.
What we do in Edgewater
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
Waterfront homes and salt-laden air
Hardware near the South River corrodes faster than inland hardware. Cylinders stiffen, keys become hard to turn, and a deadbolt that worked smoothly last spring starts to fight back in the summer.
A stiff lock is not always a failing lock. Often it is debris and old lubricant inside the cylinder. Servicing and correctly lubricating the cylinder is cheaper than replacement and usually restores the lock.
Where hardware has genuinely gone, the answer is better hardware rather than the same builder-grade part. Exposed doors on a waterfront property earn a heavier lock, and it is worth replacing a tired back-door knob with a deadbolt while the van is there.
Older cottages that have grown
A lot of Edgewater houses started small and were extended, often more than once. That leaves doors that were never part of the original plan: a rear addition, a converted porch, a new side entrance.
Those doors are where lock problems pile up. The door has settled, the strike no longer lines up, and the lock gets blamed. Adjusting the strike and the hinges often fixes a bolt that seemed broken.
It is also common to find three or four different keys for one house. Keyed-alike work on the main doors is a small job that makes the household easier to run.
Lockouts and keys in a car-dependent area
Most people here drive everywhere, and the car is where keys get left: in the cupholder, in a bag on the back seat, in the boot with the shopping.
We open vehicles without damaging the door or the glass, at any hour. If the key is genuinely lost rather than locked in, we can cut and program a replacement on site for most common vehicles.
If you still have one working key, duplicating it now is a small job. Replacing the only key after it goes missing is not, and it never happens at a convenient moment.
Businesses and rentals along Route 2
Solomons Island Road and Central Avenue carry the shops, offices and services that serve the peninsula. Storefront and office doors here need hardware that survives being opened all day.
For landlords with rentals in Edgewater, rekeying between tenancies is the standard job. It stops the previous tenant’s keys working without replacing sound locks, and it gives the new tenant a clean start.
When several staff need access and not all of them should have every door, a simple master key arrangement is usually enough, and it is far easier to manage than a drawer of unlabelled keys.
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