Rekeying a McDavid property resets the key history without replacing hardware that still works.
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Most McDavid rekeys follow one of three events: an inheritance, a sale of family land, or somebody sitting down and realising they cannot account for the keys that exist. All three have the same answer. The cylinders come out, the pins change to suit a new key, the locks go back on the doors they have occupied for thirty years, and every key issued before that afternoon stops working.
Because properties here almost always include more than the house, the useful version of this job takes in the shop, the sheds and the gates as well. Reducing a ring of eight unlabelled keys to one or two named ones is a small thing that changes daily life on a working parcel more than any new lock would.
Tell us the door count on the phone and whether anything is currently on a separate key. That detail sets the timing. A plain McDavid house finishes inside the hour; add outbuildings and it runs longer, which we would rather flag before quoting than discover halfway through the afternoon.
We cover McDavid and the surrounding Escambia County communities.
Keys to inherited land are effectively untraceable. Re-pinning is the clean line under it and costs a fraction of new hardware.
Whoever held keys before the sale still holds them. One visit ends that for the whole property.
House, shop, sheds and gates on a single key. The most-requested version of this job in McDavid.
If the lock still turns properly, rekeying does the same job for less. New hardware is for locks that are worn out, damaged or being upgraded. We look at your McDavid doors and tell you which it is.
Where they are re-pinnable, yes. Rusted-solid agricultural padlocks get cut and replaced with weather-rated ones keyed to match the rest of the property.
Yes. A simple master arrangement gives you one key for everything and gives somebody else a key that opens the shop and sheds but not the house.