Business
Panic bars, access control and safes for Tri-Cities businesses
Commercial locksmith work in Kennewick, Pasco and Richland: exit devices that latch, doors that re-lock, keys you can account for, and safes that open.
Chapter 01
Why a business door stops doing its one job
A commercial door gets used a few hundred times a day, and it fails in small, annoying ways long before it fails outright. The panic bar sticks half-depressed and the latch won't retract cleanly. The storefront door swings shut but doesn't re-lock, so someone has to lean on it every night. The closer drifts out of adjustment, and the strike plate stops lining up with the bolt. Each of these is a hardware problem you can see and feel if you know where to look.
The quieter failure is key control. A cylinder that has been rekeyed once, or never, ends up with a ring of copies nobody can account for: former staff, a contractor from two years ago, a cleaner who left on good terms. Nothing is wrong with the door. The problem is that nobody can say who can open it.
Safes fail differently. A lost combination, a dead keypad or a dial that has stopped turning smoothly all lead to the same phone call. We work with businesses in Kennewick, Pasco and Richland on all three kinds of trouble, and most of the time the first question is simply which of them you actually have.
Fire and security safes with deadbolts and locks on display at the All Points shop
How we work on exit devices, cylinders and safes
On a panic bar we start with the door, not the device. We check that it hangs square, that the closer brings it fully home, and that the strike is where the latch expects it. Then we adjust or replace the exit device, and we test it the way a person in a hurry would push it. When we install access control, the lock hardware, the reader and the door's own movement get set up as one system, so a keycard isn't fighting a sagging frame.
For doors that need to resist tampering, we fit high-security cylinders, the kind built to resist picking and to stop unauthorized key copying. That second part matters in a shop or an office: a key that only authorized locksmiths can duplicate is a key you can count. We cut and program on our own equipment at the Clearwater shop, so the keys you're handed are ones we made.
When a safe won't open, we open it by the method that fits the lock, without drilling when we don't have to. We're fully licensed, bonded and insured, and our Washington L&I contractor license number is ALLPOPL836RK. That is the number to check before anyone works on the doors that protect your inventory and your records.
Chapter 03
Keeping the building keyed to the people who work in it
After the repair, the useful habit is a key log: who holds which key, and a running count. It takes ten minutes to start and saves an afternoon of guessing later. When an employee leaves, rekey the cylinders they carried instead of hoping the key comes back. It costs far less than a break-in, and it resets the question of who has access to zero.
Door hardware also has a season. Wind off the Columbia puts real load on a storefront door, and a closer or hinge that was fine in August can be dragging by the first hard freeze. A quick adjustment before winter is cheaper than a door that won't latch on the coldest morning.
If you keep a safe on the premises, we'd rather you come see the ones we have on display at our shop on West Clearwater Avenue before you buy, so the size and fire rating match what you're really storing. Call the shop and we'll set up a time to look at your doors.
"Excellent service and even better pricing. A huge thank you to Mike and especially Charlie the tech on site. Two doors at a commercial location and was handled in less than 3 hours." Noland Rutledge, Google
Other work at the shop
Automotive locksmith
Car lockouts, key origination and duplication, transponder and smart key programming.
Residential locksmith
Home lockouts, rekeying, new deadbolts and mailbox keys.
Planning a storefront or office upgrade? Read Door hardware for Kennewick businesses, or contact us and tell us which door is giving you trouble. You can also reach the shop at (509) 585-2407.