Lock Repair
A stiff key, a latch that needs a shoulder, a deadbolt that fights you: repairable, most of the time.
What this service actually involves
Locks rarely die suddenly; they degrade, and the symptoms name the disease. A key that needs jiggling means worn pins or a worn key, a latch that needs the door lifted means sagged hinges, a deadbolt that fights means the strike moved out of alignment as the house settled. Each of those repairs for far less than replacement.
The repair visit rebuilds cylinders, replaces worn springs and followers, re-aligns strikes, and cures the seized mechanisms coastal humidity creates. The honest boundary is stated per door: hardware worth repairing gets repaired, hardware that will fail again inside a year gets named for what it is.
Questions, answered straight
The key goes in but turns like it is fighting sand.
Dry or contaminated pins, or a worn key driving worn wafers. Both are rebuildable; oil-based sprays make it worse, so stop with the WD-40.
The door only locks if I lift the handle.
That is the door, not the lock: sagged hinges or a shifted strike. Realignment fixes it and spares the lock the strain that kills it early.
Is repair worth it on cheap locks?
Sometimes no, and you deserve to hear that plainly: on builder-grade hardware a repair fee approaches replacement cost, and replacement buys you a better lock.
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