Clayton Locksmith Service for Offices, Apartments and Homes

Locks R Us Locksmith covers the whole of Clayton, from the office blocks along Forsyth Boulevard and Central Avenue to the apartment buildings off Wydown and the quiet streets around DeMun and Shaw Park. We work for homeowners, tenants, landlords, building managers and businesses on lockouts, rekeying, lock repair, replacement and new hardware. If a door is shut behind you right now, go straight to our lockout service.

Everything is mobile, so we come to the building. Call (636) 628-7803 with the address, the floor or unit if there is one, and what the lock is actually doing. We are open every day from 8 AM to 10 PM, and same-day service is often possible.

Two Kinds of Door in One Small City

Clayton is barely two and a half square miles, but it is the seat of St. Louis County and it fills up every weekday with offices, courts and county business. That gives it a lock profile you do not see in the outer suburbs: modern commercial hardware on glass and aluminium doors downtown, and, a few streets away, houses and apartment buildings that went up in the 1920s and still have much of their original ironmongery.

The two need very different treatment. Commercial doors are usually about key control and access – who holds what, and how quickly it can be changed when someone leaves. Older residential doors are about fit and wear, where adjusting and repairing the existing hardware is often better than forcing a modern lock into a door that was never built for one.

Who Has to Approve the Work

This catches people out in Clayton more than anywhere else we go, because so much of the housing here is managed. In a condo, an apartment block or a leased office, the door hardware frequently belongs to the building rather than to the person standing in front of it, and the manager or board decides what may be changed. We are glad to speak to that contact directly. Before you call, it is worth knowing whether you own the door or someone else does, since it decides whether we can rekey on the spot or need a sign-off first.

What We Do in Clayton

Lockouts, Home and Office

Locked out of a Clayton house, unit or office suite? Call with the address and tell us what the door looks like. We explain the approach before starting and open the door carefully rather than replacing hardware that has done nothing wrong. Read more about getting back in.

Commercial Work and Key Control

Offices, professional suites and storefronts here change hands and change staff often, and every change leaves keys unaccounted for. We handle rekeying, hardware replacement, repair and key control for business premises, and we can work around opening hours so a suite is not out of use during the day. Tell us how many doors are involved and which are main entrances, internal suite doors or back doors. More on commercial lock and door work.

Rekeying After a Move or a Tenant Change

Where the existing locks are sound, altering which key operates them retires every old key without replacing a single lock. On a Clayton rental with a long history of tenants, that is the cheapest sensible thing to do the week you take the keys.

Lock Changes and New Hardware

When hardware is worn out or damaged, replacement is the honest answer. We check the door, backset and bore first so the new lock suits the door rather than the other way round, and we can key the outside doors alike so one key covers the house. More on changing house locks.

Keypad Locks for Rentals and Suites

A keypad lock earns its keep on a property that changes hands often, since a code can be altered in seconds and no key needs cutting. They do not fit every door, and rarely fit a 1920s one without work, so we check thickness, backset and bore before anything is ordered. More on keypad and smart lock fitting.

Clayton Areas We Cover

• The downtown business district around Forsyth, Central and Bemiston
• Maryland Avenue and the surrounding retail and dining
• Shaw Park and the streets either side of it
• DeMun and the Concordia Seminary end of the city
• Wydown Boulevard and the older residential blocks
• Carrswold, Brentmoor Park and the Moorlands
• Hanley Road, Brentwood Boulevard and the Clayton Road corridor

Clayton sits mainly inside ZIP code 63105. Call with the exact address and we will confirm what is possible today.

Local Landmarks We Work Near

• The St. Louis County government buildings – Clayton is the county seat, which is why the centre of town is busy on a Tuesday morning and quiet on a Sunday.
• Shaw Park – at roughly 47 acres the largest of the city’s ten parks, with the ice rink, pool and the Center of Clayton beside it.
• Concordia Seminary – the campus on DeMun that gives that whole neighbourhood its character.
• Oak Knoll Park – the smaller park that houses the St. Louis Artist Guild.
• The Hanley House – an 1855 farmhouse kept as a city museum, and a reminder of what Clayton was before the offices.
• Fontbonne University on Big Bend – one of three higher education campuses inside the city limits.

What Clayton Jobs Usually Involve

Most of what we do here falls into two piles. The business calls are about keys that have gone walkabout after a staff change, and they are usually urgent in a quiet way: nothing is broken, but nobody can say who holds a key any more. The residential calls are about old doors that have finally stopped behaving, most often in winter, when timber has swelled and the bolt no longer meets the strike plate.

Because Clayton sits in the middle of the county, we are often in the neighbouring towns on the same day, including Ladue just west, Creve Coeur further out, and Webster Groves to the south, and the flats and rental streets of University City immediately north. The full list is on our service areas page.

We have no Clayton storefront – we are a mobile service and we come to you. 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 daily, 8 AM to 10 PM.

Clayton Locksmith Questions