Home Advisor Locksmith is a mobile, family-run shop working Miami-Dade County. Everything below is done from the van at your address, not at a counter you have to drive to. Residential, automotive and commercial. Licensed and insured. Call (786) 777-9529.
There is no showroom to visit and no drop-off window. You call, you describe the door or the vehicle, and a technician drives to you. Depending on where in the county you are and what traffic is doing, arrival usually runs anywhere from fifteen minutes to an hour. We give you a price on the phone based on what you describe, and if the situation on site turns out to be different from what was described, you hear the revised number before any work begins.
Locked out of a house, an apartment or a condo unit. This is the call we take most often, and it almost never needs a drilled cylinder. A technician picks or bypasses the lock, opens the door, and leaves the hardware working exactly as it did that morning. If the lock is already damaged before we arrive, we say so out loud and price the replacement before anything is touched. Screen doors, sliding patio doors, garage side doors and mailbox locks all fall under this heading.
Lost the only key. Snapped a blade in the ignition. Bought a used car that came with one worn fob and no spare. We cut and program keys and proximity fobs on site for most makes sold in Florida, including push-to-start vehicles that need a programming session through the diagnostic port. Bring us the VIN and photo ID showing you own the vehicle and we can usually finish in a driveway or a parking garage without a tow.
Rekeying changes which key turns a lock without replacing the lock. It is the cheapest honest answer after a move-in, a breakup, a contractor handover, a fired employee or a rental turnover. We can also key several different locks to one key so a front door, a back door and a garage entry all open with the same brass. If your existing hardware is builder-grade and worn past the point of being worth saving, we will tell you that instead of rekeying junk.
Keypads, Wi-Fi deadbolts, fingerprint readers and app-controlled cylinders. The install is the easy part. What matters in South Florida is which model survives salt air, afternoon downpours and a door that swells in August, and whether your door prep matches the model you bought. We fit the lock, align the strike, set up codes, and hand the account over to you rather than keeping a master code for ourselves.
Storefronts, offices, warehouses, condo buildings and HOA common areas. Panic hardware, door closers, mortise cylinders, master key systems, mailbox banks, cam locks and file cabinets. We can build a keying hierarchy so a property manager carries one key, a maintenance tech carries another, and residents carry only their own. Work is scheduled around your hours, including before opening or after close.
Home safes, gun safes, drop safes and the floor safe that came with the building. Forgotten combinations, dead electronic keypads, jammed boltwork, or a safe left behind by a previous owner. Most openings are non-destructive. When a safe genuinely has to be drilled, we explain what that means for the safe and what repair will cost before we start, not after.
Some shops only chase house lockouts because they are quick. Others only want contract work with property managers. We keep both because the skills overlap and because a county this size does not sort itself neatly. The same technician who opens a Kendall front door at nine can be rekeying a Doral warehouse dock at eleven.
A price agreed before work starts. A technician who is insured and who will show you identification if you ask. An invoice with the company name on it. No surcharge invented at the door, and no story about how the lock turned out to be a special type that costs triple. If a job needs a part we do not carry, we tell you what it is and what it costs rather than forcing a replacement we happen to have in the van.
Home Advisor Locksmith