Forgive the question, understand the reason.

[Squelchtone]

Celery the locksmith that goes nicely with chicken wings.

For the first year I thought your name was clergy until I looked a little closer.

[cledry]

Celery the locksmith that goes nicely with chicken wings.

For the first year I thought your name was clergy until I looked a little closer.

Nothing could be further from the truth! Cledry is the local name for Nancledra in Cornwall where I used to live.

[BDvs]

Lol.

[BDvs]

Update: 23,000 in the county. Anyone care to chime in on that number?

[BDvs]

If I could go a step further, on average and at what population do you men do rekeys?

[MBI]

Update: 23,000 in the county. Anyone care to chime in on that number?

It's better than the number you listed earlier.

If I could go a step further, on average and at what population do you men do rekeys?

Maybe I haven't slept enough, but I can't even begin to figure out what on earth you're even asking here.

[zeke79]

I think he is asking how many rekeys one does on average monthly and what is the population of the area they are working in.

[BDvs]

Zeke79 is correct. Thanks.

[cledry]

We do @ 5-7 rekey jobs a day. Yesterday I had a small MK job of 44 locks. I have another today almost exactly the same size and another on Monday again almost the same size. Seems like a lot of customers are finishing up new buildings or buildouts before the end of the year. So it is hard to compare a residential rekey, generally just a few locks to even a small MK job let alone a large MK job.

As an aside to your question, rekeying is a small part of our business, I would say 25% - 30% as far as number of individual jobs goes. It is one of the best money makers though. You mainly just have time and a few pins, springs, blanks invested. For example I started keying the 44 locks at @5 PM and finished at 6:15PM that was one guy removing the tailpiece, myself MKing the locks and adding a 6th top pin, and the same guy that removed the tailpiece re-installing them. We will have to go to the site and install the cylinders and this will take much more time but we also charge an hourly rate on top of the charge for masterkeying if the customer doesn't have their act together.

Population in our service area is @ 2 million. We aren't the only game in town though.

[BDvs]

Jim,

Thank you for your post. It sounds to me as that was a fairly large job. Kudos to you man for being able to handle that job. You guys have a large service area for sure. You mentioned rekeying not being that large of a percentage of the work, would you mind sharing what some of your larger percentage jobs are? Thanks again.

Brad

[cledry]

Jim,

Thank you for your post. It sounds to me as that was a fairly large job. Kudos to you man for being able to handle that job. You guys have a large service area for sure. You mentioned rekeying not being that large of a percentage of the work, would you mind sharing what some of your larger percentage jobs are? Thanks again.

Brad

We do a lot of door closers, pivots, doors, door sweeps, door weatherstripping, electric strikes, delayed egress, school lockdown and intruder locks. We core doors. We also do a lot of making keys or replacing desk and file cabinet locks. Of course like most locksmiths we work on and sell safes. We usually sell a safe a week on average and generally open a couple a week. We also do work for government and their contractors, such as X10 and LKM7003 etc.

[BDvs]

Jim,

Thank you for your post. It sounds to me as that was a fairly large job. Kudos to you man for being able to handle that job. You guys have a large service area for sure. You mentioned rekeying not being that large of a percentage of the work, would you mind sharing what some of your larger percentage jobs are? Thanks again.

Brad

We do a lot of door closers, pivots, doors, door sweeps, door weatherstripping, electric strikes, delayed egress, school lockdown and intruder locks. We core doors. We also do a lot of making keys or replacing desk and file cabinet locks. Of course like most locksmiths we work on and sell safes. We usually sell a safe a week on average and generally open a couple a week. We also do work for government and their contractors, such as X10 and LKM7003 etc.

Absolutely Excellent. Exactly the kind of information i was looking for; Thank you.

Brad