Lucky enough you got locked out with your smart phone in your hand. So go ahead and do a google search for local locksmith. In Queens I would search for emergency locksmith (neighborhood) Queens. So for example if you are locked out in Rego Park you would do emergency locksmith Rego Park Queens and press search. Doing this type of search will narrow down your options of locksmiths to your local area not a general area. So now you look on the first page of the search and there are at least thirteen listings. So try at least one of the first paid ads, chances are they will quote you a minimum svc charge and then a price for the opening depending on what type of lock they open. Under the paid ads there are organic search ads, normally the local locksmiths would be found in the first three or four listings. Once you call one of the locksmith listing let them know your situation and then ask how much. 99% of the time it should not be more then $100.
So now the locksmith arrives at your location, he/she looks at the lock and tells you that he/she will try to shim your lock, pick it or have to drill it. You start to wonder well what is the difference? The difference between the opening procedure depends on the type of lock you have. Lets just say you have the average apartment lock in the New York City apartment buildings. To shim it is to slide something like a credit card or maybe something like a venetian blind between the lock and the door jam and shim the door open. The locksmith usually uses a tool called a shim to open the door lock. Lets say the locksmith was not able to shim the door lock. The next step is to pick it open. The locksmith would use a pick set to try to pick open the cylinder, usually this is possible if you have a regular security cylinder lock. If in case you have a high security cylinder such as a mul-t-lock or a Medeco then the locksmith would have to drill it. In any case if the locksmith shims open your lock you can still use the lock once your in, if he picks it you can also still use the lock, but if he drills the cylinder then you have to get a new cylinder afterwards.
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inside of a cylinder |
tools for rekeying locks |
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