Resetting who can open the door, when the roster changes again
A Middle Brighton family home between the station, Church Street and Dendy Street Beach sees more key traffic than most: a cleaner on Tuesdays, tradespeople through the side gate, grandparents on pick-up, a teenager's friends. Every one of them has held a key at some point, and some have copied it. Rekeying brings the count back to the keys cut that day, and nobody needs to be accused of anything.
True Locksmith rekeys across Middle Brighton, Victoria, whenever the roster changes, and moves households that want real control onto a restricted keyway so no copy can be made without a signature. The rekey service page explains how, and the Middle Brighton locksmith page covers the rest.
The cleaner's key, the builder's key, the one a neighbour held for the holidays and the one a teenager swears is somewhere: all stop working once the cylinders are repinned. The house keeps the same locks and a known number of new keys.
Where keys keep spreading, the rekey moves the house onto a restricted system. Blanks are held only by us, so a kiosk cannot copy the key, and every extra key is cut against a signature. The family decides who holds one.
Middle Brighton's period doors carry furniture worth keeping, and a rekey never disturbs it. Only the cylinder is removed and repinned, then refitted behind the same escutcheon. Nothing is drilled, nothing is patched, and the door looks exactly as it did.
The call comes when the cleaner changes, the renovation finishes, a teenager loses a key for the third time, or a house-sitter's fortnight ends. Families selling book a rekey for the new owner at settlement so the handover is clean. Owners of a bathing box at Dendy Street Beach often add the padlock to the same keyway. Each rekey is priced by phone and done in a single visit, every key tested.
You cannot, which is why you rekey. After a rekey the count restarts at the keys cut that day, and on a restricted keyway it stays accurate because no key is cut without authority. True Locksmith keeps that record for Middle Brighton, Victoria.
Yes, if they held a physical key. A rekey cancels it and any copy without replacing a lock that is still sound. If they used a key safe instead, the key inside is replaced and the code changed at the same visit.
Often, yes. A rekeyable marine-grade padlock can be pinned to the house key, so one key opens the front door and the box. The padlock needs to be a stainless or brass-bodied unit to survive the salt at the beach.
The same service is described for Re-Key Locks in Caulfield and Re-Key Locks in Hampton East .
List who currently holds a key and how many new ones you want, and send it with the street through the contact page. Neale will say whether a standard rekey or a restricted keyway suits, and give the price for either before the visit is booked.
