Twice-yearly student turnover, century-old doors, and keys that go everywhere
Caulfield's share houses near Monash hand keys to housemates, partners and friends across two intakes a year, and by the time a tenancy ends nobody can say how many copies exist. Rekeying cancels every one of them in a single visit without replacing hardware that still suits a Victorian door or an Art Deco flat, and at a fraction of the cost of new locks.
True Locksmith rekeys across Caulfield, Victoria, for share-house landlords, owners corporations around Caulfield Park and families in long-held period homes, and sets up restricted keyways where the owner wants every copy to need a signature on file. The rekey service explains the method; the Caulfield locksmith page covers the rest.
The front door is rekeyed to a common key, each bedroom's privacy lock to its own, and the landlord's master opens the lot. At changeover, only the departing housemate's bedroom cylinder is repinned, so the other tenants' keys keep working.
A Victorian or Edwardian door's original mortice case usually holds a cylinder that can be repinned like any other. The brass furniture stays on the door, the mechanism is serviced while apart, and the new key is the only change.
An Art Deco or boutique block near Caulfield Park often runs a master key for the manager. A unit's cylinder is repinned so the owner's new key and the building master both work, and the old tenant's key does not.
Share-house landlords book in late February and late July, when one intake leaves and the next arrives. Owners of flats near the park rekey when a tenant changes or a manager leaves with the master. Families in period homes rekey after a renovation, when the builder's keys have been passed around a site for months, or when a key is lost on the Glen Huntly Road strip. Each is priced on the phone before the visit.
Yes. Each bedroom cylinder is pinned to its own key, so repinning one leaves the rest untouched. True Locksmith sets Caulfield, Victoria, share houses up this way so a single changeover takes a few minutes rather than a full rekey of the house.
Yes, with a restricted keyway. Blanks for a restricted system are held only by the locksmith who registered it, so a kiosk cannot copy the key. Housemates get the number of keys on the lease, and the landlord authorises any extra.
Not when done with the master in mind. The cylinder is repinned to work with both the new tenant's key and the existing building master, so the manager's emergency access is unchanged. A rekey that ignores the master causes trouble.
The same service is described for Re-Key Locks in Bentleigh and Re-Key Locks in Middle Brighton .
Give the address, the number of bedrooms or doors, and whether the block has a master key, via the contact page. Neale will confirm the keying plan and the price. Landlords can book both semester changeovers at once and have both dates held in the diary.
