Locksmith Service for Old Doors and New Builds in Washington

Locks R Us Locksmith works right across Washington, from the brick storefronts on Front Street and Elm Street to the newer streets off Highway 100 and the shopping on the west side of town. We help homeowners, landlords, tenants and businesses with lockouts, rekeying, lock repair, lock replacement and new hardware. If you are standing outside a locked door as you read this, start with our lockout service.

Our service is mobile, so we drive to the property rather than asking you to come to us. Call (636) 628-7803 with the address, whether it is a home or a business, and what the lock or the door is doing. We are open daily from 8 AM to 10 PM, and same-day service is often available.

A Town With Four Historic Districts

Washington holds more protected old building stock than almost any town its size in the area. The downtown district alone covers 31 acres and 83 contributing buildings, and the Locust Street, Stafford-Olive and Tibbe districts add several hundred more houses on top of that. A great many of those front doors are the original ones, and an original door does not take modern hardware without some thought.

In practice that splits our work here in two. On a nineteenth-century door with a mortise lock and a narrow stile, boring it out for a standard deadbolt is often the wrong move, and putting right what is already fitted keeps the door intact and usually costs less. On the newer housing south and west of town, where a whole street went up at once with identical hardware, replacement and rekeying are simple. Mobile service covers ZIP code 63090 and the Franklin County addresses around it.

What We Do in Washington

Lockouts at Home and at Work

Locked out of a Washington house, apartment or shop? Call with the address and tell us what kind of lock is on the door. We explain the approach before we start, and on an old door we take extra care to open it without damaging hardware that has lasted a century. More on urgent entry help.

Rekeying After a Move or a Tenant Change

Nobody buying a resale house knows how many keys are still out there, and a lock can look perfect while an old key still turns it. Where the existing hardware is sound, changing which key operates it retires every old key without replacing a single lock body. On an old Washington house that matters twice over, because the original hardware is often the part worth keeping.

Lock Changes and Replacement

When hardware is worn through, damaged, or was cheap to begin with, replacement is the honest answer. We measure the door, the backset and the bore first so the new lock suits the door it is going on, and we can key the outside doors alike so one key covers the house. More on changing house locks.

Lock Repair and Door Alignment

A deadbolt that binds, a latch that misses the strike, or a knob that has gone loose may be a lock fault or a door fault, and the fix is completely different depending on which. Old timber doors move with the seasons, so we look at the lock and the door together instead of replacing hardware that was never the problem.

Commercial and Downtown Business Work

Shops, offices and restaurants downtown need the work done without shutting for the day, and many of them sit behind doors that predate every lock standard in use now. We handle rekeying, lock repair, hardware replacement and key control for business premises. Tell us how many entrances are involved and which are front, office or back doors, since they take very different traffic. More on business lock and door service.

Keypad and Smart Lock Fitting

Keypad locks suit the newer builds well and are handy on a rental, where a code can be changed without cutting a key. They do not fit every door, though, and rarely fit an old one without modification. We check thickness, backset and bore before anything is bought. More on keypad and smart lock fitting.

Washington Areas We Cover

• Downtown and the Front Street riverfront
• Elm Street, Market Street and the Second Street blocks
• Locust Street and the older residential streets
• The Stafford-Olive and Tibbe neighbourhoods
• The Highway 100 corridor and the west-side shopping
• Highway 47 and the approaches to the river bridge
• The newer subdivisions south of town

Washington sits inside ZIP code 63090. Call with the exact address and we will confirm what we can do today.

Local Landmarks We Work Near

• Downtown Washington Historic District – 31 acres and 83 contributing buildings on the National Register since 1989, and the heart of the town’s shops and offices.
• Missouri Meerschaum – the corn cob pipe works that gave Washington its Pipe City nickname.
• Locust Street Historic District – 123 contributing buildings in one of the oldest residential parts of town.
• Stafford-Olive Historic District – 140 contributing buildings west of the centre.
• The Calvin Theater and the old railway depot – 1909 and 1923 buildings that anchor the downtown streetscape.
• The Washington Bridge – the crossing that carries Highway 47 over the Missouri River to the north.

What Washington Jobs Usually Involve

Two calls come in more than any others here. The first is keys that are no longer accounted for after a sale or a tenancy, which is cheap to sort out and worth doing the week you get the keys. The second is an old door that has finally stopped latching properly, usually in the depths of winter when the timber has moved and the bolt no longer lines up with the strike.

Work out here rarely stops at the city limits. We take the same calls in Union to the south, Pacific and Eureka back along Highway 100 towards St. Louis, and in Gray Summit and the smaller Franklin County towns in between. Everywhere we reach is listed on our service areas page.

Our base is in Ballwin, about fifty miles east, so Washington is a proper drive rather than a local hop and it is worth calling earlier in the day when the job can wait. Our technicians are licensed and insured, with more than ten years of local work behind them. Vehicle work is door unlocking only: no key cutting, no fob or remote programming, no ignition work. Open every day, 8 AM to 10 PM.

Washington Locksmith Questions