Commercial lock installation for your business doors

What this covers

Commercial lock installation puts new locks on business doors: storefront doors, rear doors, office doors, and the doors to stock rooms and cash areas. It covers the lock body, the cylinder that takes the key, and the exit hardware on doors where people need to get out by pushing. It is the work for a new tenant, a business that is renovating, or a door whose old lock is no longer up to the job.

How we approach it

We look at each door before choosing the hardware: what the door is made of, how it is prepared, how much traffic it takes, and who needs a key. Business doors take far more use than doors at home, so the lock has to suit the door and the way it is used. Once fitted, every lock is tested with its keys and with the door closed and latched.

Where it stops

Installation covers the lock hardware itself: lock bodies, cylinders and exit devices. We do not make claims about building or fire requirements; if a door has to meet a particular rule, check it with your landlord or building manager first. A door that is damaged, sagging or does not close square needs fixing before a new lock can work properly on it.

Plan the keys before the locks. Decide who needs to open which doors: owners and managers everywhere, staff on the staff entrance, only a few people on the cash room. That plan decides whether the new locks should share one key, work on separate keys, or be set up as a master key system, and it is far easier to decide now than to change after the locks are in.

Rear and side doors deserve the same attention as the front. The main entrance gets looked at by everyone who walks past; the back door is the one that gets propped open, left unlatched, or kept on a tired old lock for years. When new locks go in, include every exterior door, not just the one customers use.