Commercial Locksmith in Hartford, CT

Hartford's business areas and their doors

Commercial lock work in Hartford varies by district.

• Downtown is Hartford's main business district, with the State Capitol and Travelers Tower. Pratt Street is a pedestrian area of shops, where a tenant's own storefront door is a separate matter from any building lobby.
• Asylum Hill is home to insurance headquarters, including The Hartford and Aetna. In a large office building the owner usually controls the main entrances, and a tenant's lock work happens at its own suite doors, offices and cabinets.
• Park Street in Frog Hollow, tied to the neighborhood's Puerto Rican community, and Franklin Avenue in the South End, the city's Little Italy, are commercial streets. A small shop there may have a glass front door, a rear service door and a gate or roll-down grille, each with a different key.
• The South Meadows, an industrial and commercial area along the Connecticut River, includes the Hartford Regional Market and Hartford-Brainard Airport. Sites like these can involve steel doors, padlocked gates and storage rooms rather than a single front entrance.

Turnover and key control

Keys drift away whenever people change: a manager leaves, a tenant moves out, a contractor finishes. Rekeying the affected cylinders makes the old keys useless. A master key system lets a business owner open every door while each employee's key opens only their own area, so one departure means rekeying a few cylinders instead of the whole building.

Managers of multi-unit residential buildings are commercial customers too. Sorting which keys open unit doors and which open common doors is easier before a turnover than during one.

What to include in a commercial request

• The business name, street and district, and the building type: storefront, office suite, warehouse or multi-unit residential.
• Who controls the building's main entrance, and approval from the owner or manager if it is not you.
• The number and type of doors, including gates, grilles and cabinets.
• How many people hold keys, and whether a key is still with a former employee or tenant.

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