Residential Locksmiths

Home lockouts, rekeying after a move and hardware upgrades that actually hold — mobile technicians on call day and night across Johannesburg, Gauteng.

Cave Locksmith technician fitting a deadlock to a home's front door

Your Front Door Should Be the Hard Part

Cave Locksmith treats a house the way a vault gets specified: the door, the frame and the cylinder are judged together, because good hardware bolted into soft timber is still a soft target. Lockouts, post-move rekeys and full hardware upgrades are all worked from the van, at whatever hour the problem actually turns up.

What We Handle Around the House

  • Residential and commercial lockouts
  • Rekey existing locks
  • Installation of new locks
  • Window locks
  • Patio bolts
  • Deadlocks and locksets
  • Digital locks
  • High-security locks
  • Key cutting and duplication

Hardware Supplied, Cut and Fitted On Site

Locks can be supplied keyed alike to the key already in your pocket, or fitted fresh as a new suite for the whole house when the old keys have scattered too far to trust. The range runs from everyday door locksets up to high-security cylinders, and the technician will tell you plainly where extra spend buys real resistance and where it only buys a heavier box.

Booking a locksmith for the house? Someone answers the phone every hour of the week.

Call 073 330 5397

New Place, Old Keys

Every handover comes with keys nobody can account for — the agent's copy, the seller's spare, whoever did the paving. Rekeying re-pins the cylinder so only your new key turns it, which shuts that gap without paying for replacement locksets you do not need.

Where Most Homes Give Way

The lockset a builder fits as standard is usually the cheapest item on the door, and it shows under a shoulder. Before recommending anything we check the throw of the bolt, the condition of the strike plate and the fixings behind it — sometimes the answer is a deadlock, a high-security cylinder or digital access, and sometimes it is screws long enough to reach the frame.

Homes right across Johannesburg, Gauteng and the suburbs around it fall inside our call-out range, at any hour. Phone and describe what the door is doing — that conversation usually decides what we load into the van.

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