Sunday, October 2, 2011

Professional Locksmiths Keep Your Business Safe

I advise being careful with whom you trust when it comes to protecting your business. As a business owner you have to be a good judge of character with the employees you hire. But, the employees are not the real scare when it comes to the security of your business - it is the intruders you need to keep an eye out for. This is why it is especially important to have a reliable security system installed in your building. Thankfully, there are a number of different ways a professional locksmith can help secure your building.

Rekeying is when a locksmith changes a lock so a different key opens and closes it. When you are concerned that someone has access who shouldn't, you can have the system altered so it can only be opened with new keys. A locksmith will come and disassemble it and replace the pins inside. When it's done, new keys will be made and they are the only ones that will be able to operate the door. They can do this for you as often as you would like to keep people from figuring out how to break in.

Above having a lock exchanged for a new, it is more important to have a secure one that works in the first place. The existing lock may just need to be fixed. Door locks, padlocks, and key replacements are all common things that business owners need to keep maintained to run a successful secure business.

A master key system is a set of locks that each may have their own individual pass key. Each different lock is opened by an additional one which is the master for each separate door. They are the different master key for each lock. Groups of locks can be keyed the same so that one key can operate all of the locks in the bunch. Sub master keys can then open each individual lock.

For example if you own two office buildings you will need four locks keyed differently and one sub master that can operate all the locks within the one building. The master key can open both buildings but the sub master key will only open its specific building. The grand master would open everything. So there might be a lock box outside both buildings which can be opened with the same master, and inside the lock box of each building are their individual keys to get in to the building. Of course, the risk of having a system like this is that if someone gets a hold of the master they can get access to the sub masters as well.

There are so many different options when having the locks improved for your office safety.

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