What Commercial Lock Rekeying Actually Involves — and Why Businesses Choose It
Rekeying is the process of disassembling a lock cylinder and replacing the internal pins or wafers so that the previous key no longer operates the lock. The hardware you already have — the lock body, the strike plate, the door prep — stays exactly where it is. Only the cylinder's internal configuration changes, and a new set of keys is cut to match. For a Yorba Linda business owner, this is often the most practical response to employee turnover, a lost master key, a lease changeover, or a recent break-in attempt where keys may have been duplicated without your knowledge.
Our technicians are experienced with the full range of commercial-grade hardware found in Orange County business properties: mortise locks, cylindrical knob-and-lever sets, deadbolts, rim cylinders, padlocks, and high-security cylinders from manufacturers like Schlage. The mortise lock is especially common in older Yorba Linda commercial buildings and professional offices — it sits inside a pocket cut into the door edge and typically combines a latch, deadbolt, and sometimes an auxiliary bolt in one robust unit. Rekeying a mortise lock requires disassembling the cylinder from the mortise body correctly, and our technicians do this damage-free wherever the door and hardware condition allow.

