Mobile Locksmith in Bedfordview

Business premises: suites, shopfronts and back offices

A lot of Bedfordview's daytime population is at work, not at home. The suburb has a busy commercial side, and Property24 recently listed close to fifty commercial properties for sale across the wider Bedfordview area. Calls from business premises tend to fall into a few groups:

• Locked out of the office after hours, or first thing in the morning before the keyholder arrives. Our guide to an office lockout after hours covers who to phone first.
• A suite or storeroom lock that has started to stick, or a door that has to be slammed before it latches.
• Staff turnover: someone has left and the keys didn't come back, so the cylinder or the whole lock needs changing.
• An office safe that won't open, or won't lock again once it is open. Safe opening and safe repairs are ordinary jobs for us.

See commercial locksmith work for the full list. We don't cut or copy keys; a new lock comes with its own set.

Bedford Centre and other managed buildings

The Bedford Centre, on the corner of Smith Road and Van der Linde Road, combines shops with office floors and is marketed as having access-controlled security. In a building like that, the lock on your suite door is usually your business, but the front entrance, lifts and parking are run by building management. Before we arrive, check whether a contractor needs to be signed in, where we can park, and whether someone from management has to be present. Small point for the map-minded: the 2011 Census boundary puts the centre inside the Bedford Gardens sub-place, and it has its own neighbouring page, locksmith in Bedford Gardens.

Houses behind booms and in security estates

On the residential side, Bedfordview has large houses on their own stands, security estates and a number of roads closed off with booms. In 2018 the City of Ekurhuleni said it would not remove Bedfordview's road-closure gates except those built illegally. In practice that means a guard or a boom may stand between the street and your gate. When you book, tell us:

1. whether you are inside an enclosure or estate, and how a visiting vehicle gets through;
2. the name to give at the boom or guardhouse;
3. which door or gate is the problem: front door, security gate, pedestrian gate, garage or a sliding door.

Pedestrian gate locks on boomed roads and estates take a beating from the weather. Pedestrian gate lock problems lists what you can safely check yourself.

Finding you: main roads and the big interchange

Van Buuren Road is the main route through Bedfordview's business district, and Nicol Road and Kloof Road both run through Oriel. If you are near the George Bizos Interchange (still widely called Gillooly's), where the N3 meets the N12, give us the nearest cross street on the suburb side. The other confusion is Eastgate: OpenStreetMap addresses it as Bruma, while the census boundary takes it into Bedfordview. Either way, we come out. For the Johannesburg side, see locksmith in Bruma.

On the day

Before opening a locked door, safe or car, the technician asks for something that links you to it: an ID with the address, a lease, or a letter from your employer for an office. Non-destructive entry is tried first. You get a price on site before any work starts. The technician assesses the job on site and gives you the price before any work starts. Nothing is done until you agree. The call-out is R250, and you can pay by EFT, cash or card.

Locksmith services available in Bedfordview

• Commercial locksmith

  Offices, shops, practices and storerooms: lockouts, lock repairs, lock changes and office safes, done at your premises.

• Residential locksmith

  Door locks, gate locks and home safes at houses, flats, townhouses and cluster homes, sorted at your front door.

• Emergency lockouts

  Keys inside, a lock that refuses to turn, or someone stuck behind a deadlocked door. Phone any hour and we drive out to you.

• Safe opening

  No code, no key, a keypad that's gone dark or a door that refuses to budge. Home, office and firearm safes opened in place.

• Lock replacement

  New cylinders, deadlocks, nightlatches, multipoint gearboxes and gate locks, supplied and fitted at your door.

• Break-in lock repairs

  After a burglary or an attempt: damaged locks replaced, doors made lockable again, and keys that may be compromised taken out of use.

All of these are part of our mobile locksmith service in Johannesburg.

Useful guides

• Locked Out of the Office After Hours
• Pedestrian Gate Lock Problems at Home and in Complexes
• Smart and Keypad Door Locks: What to Know Before You Buy

Nearby areas we cover

• Bedford Gardens
• Dowerglen
• Dunvegan
• Linksfield
• Bruma
• Observatory

All Johannesburg areas