Mobile Locksmith in Parktown

Offices and business premises

Seeff notes that Parktown has many business and commercial offices, and Wikipedia lists Transnet Freight Rail's head office at Inyanda House on Girton Road among them. For a business, a lock problem quickly becomes a staff problem. Typical examples:

• a suite or front door that won't lock at close of day;
• keys that left with a former employee or contractor;
• a filing cabinet or office safe that won't open, or won't lock again;
• an after-hours lockout when the only key-holder has gone home.

Please clear our visit with building security or reception first, and have someone with authority over the premises available to confirm the work. See commercial locksmith services and our guide to an office lockout after hours. For safes, see safe repairs.

Hospitals and campuses: where's the car?

Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (Queens Road), the Donald Gordon Medical Centre (Eton Road), Netcare Park Lane (Junction Avenue), the Wits Medical School (York Road) and the Wits Education Campus and Business School off Victoria Avenue all fall inside the census Parktown boundary. That's a lot of large car parks.

If you're locked out of your car at one of them, tell us the name of the hospital or campus, the gate or entrance you used, and roughly where in the car park you are. Give us the make, model and year of the car, and say whether the key is inside, lost or broken. Lost or broken car key explains the options, and car locksmith services covers the work. You'll need to show us that the car is yours.

Complexes and flats

Seeff counts 941 sectional title units in Parktown, against 360 freehold homes (23 of them in estates), and describes the suburb as predominantly sectional title complexes. If you rent a unit or let one out, key control for landlords covers how to keep track of keys between tenants. If you're locked out, tell the complex guard or manager that a locksmith is coming, and we'll ask for proof that you live there. See emergency lockouts.

The mansions on the ridge

From the 1890s, Randlords built mansions along the Parktown ridge. Many were demolished in the late 1960s for what is now the Wits Education Campus, and more in the 1970s for the M1. A few Herbert Baker houses survive, including Northwards, Villa Arcadia and Brenthurst. Where an older house still has its original doors and fittings, we look first at repairing the existing lock. See older doors, older locks.

What it costs

There's an R250 call-out. The technician assesses the job on site and gives you the price before any work starts. Nothing is done until you agree. We take payment by EFT, cash or card.

Locksmith services available in Parktown

• Commercial locksmith

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

• Car keys & lockouts

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

• 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.

• Lock replacement

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

• Safe repairs & code changes

  Combination changes, replacement safe locks, keypad conversions, stiff bolt work and safes fixed to the floor.

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

Useful guides

• Locked Out of the Office After Hours
• Lost or Broken Car Key: Your Options
• Key Control for Landlords and Short-Let Hosts
• Older Doors, Older Locks: Lock Care in Established Suburbs

Nearby areas we cover

• Forest Town
• Westcliff
• Saxonwold
• Houghton
• Killarney
• Melville

All Johannesburg areas