Locksmiths · Wilmington and New Castle County

New keys by tonight. A price before we drive.

Tell us how many doors, what you want on them and how soon you need it. You get a real price range in about a minute, with the trip charge already inside it. Then we turn up, check what is actually in the door, and confirm it before a tool comes out.

Price my locks Call (301) 555-0142

Locked out right now? Do not fill in a form standing in your own doorway — ring the number above. That one is a phone call, not a form, and it is the fastest thing on this page.

Bonded, insured and background-checked Trip charge quoted before we drive ID checked before we open anything

Instant price range

We answer the phoneAnd when we cannot, it texts you back rather than ringing out.

Non-destructive firstWe pick it. Drilling is a last resort and we say so before we start.

One key for the houseEvery lock we fit or rekey opens with the same key unless you say otherwise.

Flat trip chargeQuoted on the phone, inside the price, not added at the door.

What we do

Getting you in, and keeping everyone else out

Three keys per door on everything we fit, cut and tested on the doorstep before we leave. We do not walk away from a door that half works.

Most calls

House and apartment lockouts

Picked open where we can, and we bring a blank so you leave with a spare rather than the same one key you locked inside.

New owners

Change every lock on the house

The day the keys change hands, nobody knows who still has one. Rekeyed or replaced, all opening on your key, in an afternoon.

Landlords

Turnovers and rekeys

Between tenants, on a standing arrangement. We hold the key chart so the next turnover is a phone call.

Cars

Car lockouts and spare keys

Opened without a scratch on the paint. Chipped and remote keys are quoted once we know the year and the model.

Broken keys

Extractions and safe opening

A key snapped in the cylinder, a safe nobody has the combination to, a padlock that has seized on a gate.

Site visit

Master key systems and access control

Who may open what, written down and keyed to it. Card readers, and a key we can stop working the day somebody leaves.

How we price

A number before the van, not after it

The form at the top of this page uses our real rates. It shows a range rather than one number because what is actually inside a door — the backset, the bore, the strike, whether anybody has been at it with a screwdriver — is something we can only see when we get there.

Tell us about the doors

How many, what you want on them, whether they all open with one key, what sort of building it is and how soon you need it. The same questions we ask on the phone.

See the range

Midpoint plus or minus 10%. Jobs under our $149 minimum quote at the minimum, and a mortise lock in any door raises that floor to $495. Anything bigger than a building’s worth of doors gets a walk-through instead of a number.

We turn up and confirm

Exact price at the door before anything comes apart. Travel is priced from your ZIP. The price does not change with the month — a lock is the same lock in February.

Service area

Based in Wilmington. We say what the trip costs before we make it.

Your ZIP code sets the travel line on your estimate. On a lockout that matters more than anything else on the form: the drive is most of what you are paying for, so you get the number before you agree to it rather than on the invoice.

Local: Wilmington and New Castle CountyZIPs 198xx
No travel fee
Outer ring: Newark, Cecil County MD, Chester County PAZIPs 197xx, 219xx and 193xx
+$25
Everywhere else we travelAny other ZIP we can reach
+$45 and +5%

Notes for anyone evaluating the demo

Priced path. Pick Rekey and new door hardware, then: 4 doors, new deadbolts and levers, every door on one key Yes, a house, a door with no bolt hole Yes, mortise No, next opening. Use ZIP 19805. The live pricing engine returns $877 – $1,072 with the disclaimer, and the lead lands in the demo account’s inbox. Four doors at $95 is $380; the $49 trip, the $35 to key them alike and the $145 door prep make $609; the one percentage answer, new hardware at +60%, applies once to all of it.
What the engine does and does not do here. Only the door count multiplies. The keyed-alike charge, the door prep and the building type are flat adders, and the engine adds a flat adder once per job rather than once per door — so the same answers with 8 doors instead of four come back $1,424 – $1,741, which is the priced path plus four more doors of labour carrying the same +60%, and nothing else. The hardware grade is a percentage precisely because it is not a per-door fee.
Travel zone. Repeat the priced path with ZIP 19711 (Newark) for the outer-ring fee: $899 – $1,099. Any ZIP outside the listed prefixes, whether 21201 (Baltimore) or 75001 (Texas), falls to the catch-all zone: $961 – $1,175, the percentage first and then the flat fee.
Out of area. Use ZIP 99901. The visitor gets a polite decline instead of a price, and the lead is still captured.
Over the ceiling. Enter 12 doors, Grade 2 hardware, one key Yes, a rental building with doors in common, door prep Yes. The midpoint works out at $3,134.45, clearing the service’s $3,000 ceiling, so the widget routes to “we’ll come and look” rather than printing a number. One door fewer — 11, everything else the same — still prices, at $2,646 – $3,234. Routing is tested on the midpoint and the band is drawn afterwards, so that published high end is deliberately allowed to sit above the ceiling.
Minimum floor. One door, rekey what is already there, not keyed alike, a house, nothing else, ZIP 19805: the work itself is $144, under the $149 minimum, and it quotes at $149 – $164. Note the low end of the band is the floor itself, not 10% below it.
A rule that raises the floor rather than adding to it. Two doors, rekey, one key Yes, a house, no door prep, next opening: that job is $274 and quotes $247 – $301. Answer Yes to the mortise question and nothing is added to the arithmetic — it is still $274 — but the rule lifts the minimum to $495 and the quote comes back $495 – $545. Because the low end of the band clamps to that floor after the range is drawn, the bottom of the published range goes flat. A quote with that answered Yes never comes back below $495.
The service this trade is really about, and the one where the trip charge is the job. Pick Lockout and emergency opening: a house or apartment door, “right now, I am standing at the door”, no broken key, no high-security cylinder, no spare cut. $94 – $120, and the $89 trip is inside that number rather than added at the door — it is the service’s base fee, so it is added once whatever else she answers. Ask for it “later today” instead and it is $89 – $100: the trip charge on its own, at the service minimum, with the band’s bottom clamped flat against it. Answer “it is the middle of the night” and the 45% step takes it to $114 – $145. A car instead of a house, right now, is $126 – $160.
The night rate is an answer, not a clock. The engine’s only temporal input is the day of the year (qf_today_mmdd() in includes/quote-engine.php), so it cannot tell 2am from 2pm and this fixture does not pretend it can: urgency is a question the customer answers, exactly as garage-doors and windows-doors do it. Nothing on this page is priced from the time you load it.
The lockout has its own, much lower ceiling. $300, against $3,000 on the booked work. A safe or gun cabinet, middle of the night, works out at $317.55 and routes rather than pricing — which is the honest answer, because a safe that has to be drilled is a job somebody looks at. The same safe asked for “right now” rather than overnight is $262.80 and still prices, at $231 – $294.
Routing mode. Pick Master key systems and access control. That service is in site-visit mode, so it never shows a price at all; the visitor sees “we like to see it first”. Its “how many doors are in the system” question is a number with no rule attached, which the widget still validates and still records.
The photo question carries no rule. Photos never move the price — the engine skips them entirely. Nothing is uploaded either: on a demo the visitor can tick “I have photos I can send” and the lead records “Has photos to send, not uploaded”, which is the owner’s cue to ask for pictures on the call. Attaching the image itself is on the roadmap.
No season, deliberately. Nothing on this account carries a seasonal adjustment, and on this trade that is a decision rather than an omission. There are two real rhythms — frozen cylinders in a cold snap, and the summer moving season filling the rekey board — but a seasonal row repeats every year forever, so encoding either would charge a premium on every quiet day in perpetuity. Neither is a reason to charge more; they are reasons people call. Every figure above is the same figure in any month; run the priced path with --date=2027-02-11 and again with --date=2027-07-14 and both return $877 – $1,072.
The missed-call text-back, and why this trade leans on it hardest. The CallMitt page replays which of five messages a missed caller would get and why. Straight about where it stands: nothing on this platform delivers a text message yet, because there is no SMS gateway on our side, so the reply is written, compliance-checked and held in the outbox where the owner can read it. The rules, the hours, the quiet hours and the opt-out handling are built and running. Two of those rules bite here more than anywhere: this shop’s own hours are 8am to 8pm, and texting itself is only allowed between 8am and 9pm where the caller is, estimated from their area code — so a genuine two-in-the-morning lockout is recorded as blocked, with the reason, rather than queued.
The widget’s gunmetal matches this site because the account’s key carries a theme color; the same script on an agency’s client site would carry the agency’s color.