Mobile Locksmith in Highlands North

East or west of Louis Botha?

Agents describe Louis Botha Avenue as dividing Highlands North into an east and a west side, and that's the first thing worth telling us. A few landmarks help us find you quickly:

• Balfour Mall on Athol Road, with the Rea Vaya Balfour Park station next to it on Louis Botha Avenue;
• Northview High School near Northview Road, and the Northview fire station off Waverley Road, both on the eastern side;
• Highlands North Boys' High School at the southern end, off Sarie Marais and Rathmines Roads.

The numbered avenues (3rd to 11th) run across the western side, so "6th Avenue" alone isn't always enough; add the nearest named road.

Subdivided stands and boomed streets

Chas Everitt describes the houses here as compact and solidly built, on manageable stands that have mostly been subdivided, and notes that the pricier homes tend to sit in quieter, boomed-off streets. Both points affect a call-out:

• On a subdivided stand, two homes may share one driveway or pedestrian gate. Tell us which house is yours and who controls the gate.
• If your street has a boom, let the guard know a locksmith is on the way, or meet us at the boom.

Older houses also have older hardware. A worn mortice lock or a deadlock that only works with the door shoved hard is usually a sign it's time for a repair or a replacement.

Flats and sectional title units

Not everyone here lives in a house. When the lock on a flat or a sectional title unit fails, the job is the same but the rules aren't. The unit door is usually your responsibility, while the main entrance, intercom and common-area gates belong to the body corporate. If you're stuck outside your flat now, read what to do when you're locked out of a flat.

Locked out at Balfour Mall

Keys locked in the car, or a car key that has snapped or stopped working, happens in shopping centre parking as often as at home. Tell us which entrance you used, where in the parking you are, and the car's make, model and year. We'll check that the car is yours before opening it. More on this: car locksmith help and lost or broken car keys.

Hawkins Estate and Talboton

Two tiny census areas are covered on this page too. Hawkins Estate, at the southern tip around Roland Avenue and the boys' high school, counted only 62 residents in 2011. Talboton, a few blocks on the eastern side around Blyth Street and 1st Avenue, had 440. Highlands North itself had 4,914 people in 1,705 households that year.

Cost and payment

R250 call-out fee. The technician assesses the job on site and gives you the price before any work starts. Nothing is done until you agree. We take EFT, cash or card, and we're available 24/7.

Locksmith services available in Highlands North

• 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.

• Residential locksmith

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

• Lock repairs

  Stiff keys, bolts that catch, doors that won't latch and gate locks that have seized: repaired on site where the fault allows.

• Lock replacement

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

• Car keys & lockouts

  Locked car with keys inside, a sheared-off car key or a lost one: we meet you wherever the vehicle is.

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

Useful guides

• Locked Out of Your Flat or Complex Unit: What to Do
• Lost or Broken Car Key: Your Options
• Pedestrian Gate Lock Problems at Home and in Complexes

Nearby areas we cover

• Waverley
• Savoy Estate
• Oaklands
• Glenhazel
• Orchards
• Sydenham

All Johannesburg areas