Locksmith in Waukesha, WI

Locksmith in Waukesha, the Spring City

A locksmith in Waukesha works in the county seat, a city of about 71,000 people on the Fox River with a university, a historic downtown, and a lot of rental housing. We come to the apartment, the house, the storefront, or the parking lot as a mobile locksmith. A rekey takes 15 to 60 minutes for most homes, and a lockout usually takes a few minutes once we arrive. Waukesha is about 16 miles west of downtown Milwaukee.

Prairieville, the springs, and Guitartown

The settlement here was first called Prairieville. When Waukesha County was formed in 1846, the town became the county seat, and in 1847 it took the name Waukesha, usually said to come from a Potawatomi word for the fox. It became a village in 1852 and a city in 1896. After 1868, when the healing reputation of Bethesda Spring spread, Waukesha turned into a resort, and from about 1870 to 1910 visitors came to drink the water and stay in large resort hotels such as the Fountain Spring House. That era gave the city its nicknames, the Spring City and the Saratoga of the West.

Waukesha has another nickname too: Guitartown. Les Paul, the guitar and recording pioneer, was born here in 1915. And on September 5, 1906, Carroll College, now Carroll University, played the game in which the first legal forward pass in football history was thrown, by a player from the visiting Saint Louis University team.

Renters, landlords, and rekeys between tenants

About 42 percent of the occupied homes in Waukesha are rented, according to the 2020 census, from apartments near downtown to duplexes and single-family rentals. Every move-out raises the same question for a landlord: how many copies of the key did the last tenant make? A rekey answers it. We change the pins inside the lock so the old keys stop working, and the lock stays on the door, which costs less than replacing hardware. The first lock starts at $59, and each additional lock on the same visit starts at $20 (rekeying).

For landlords and managers with several units, we can key each unit differently and give the owner a key that opens all of them, and we keep a record of which key goes where (property managers). When a lock is worn out rather than just exposed, we replace it from $99, and a new deadbolt starts at $119.

Carroll University and student moves

Carroll University was founded in 1846 and is the oldest university in Wisconsin. Its students live in dorms, apartments, and rented houses around campus, and the start and end of each semester bring a wave of lost keys, lockouts, and roommates who moved out without returning a key. A student locked out of an apartment can call us at any hour; a house lockout starts at $69 (house lockout). Landlords near campus often rekey between leases, and we can do several units in one visit.

Downtown, Five Points, and the courthouse

Waukesha's historic downtown grew around the Five Points intersection and the old county courthouse, and it is full of older commercial buildings with shops, restaurants, and offices. Old storefront doors wear out their cylinders and closers. We replace storefront locks from $129 (storefront locks), rekey a business after a staff change from $79 for the first lock, repair door closers from $99, and open a locked business from $89.

Car lockouts and car keys

A car lockout starts at $69 (car lockout). When every key is lost, we cut and program a new one at the car from $119, and a push-to-start smart key starts at $159. A spare key made from the one you have starts at $69, which costs far less than replacing a key after the last one is gone.

Service in English and Spanish

In the 2020 census, about 14 percent of Waukesha residents, close to 10,000 people, identified as Hispanic or Latino. Many families would rather explain a lockout or a broken lock in Spanish, so we answer text messages in Spanish as well as English. Send the address, a photo of the lock or the car, and what happened, and we confirm the price on site before we start.

Driving to Waukesha

Waukesha borders New Berlin on the east and Pewaukee on the north. Brookfield is to the northeast, and Muskego is to the southeast. We cover all of them at the same prices.