It’s a key you use every day in the same lock. Whether you’re unlocking the door to your home, your car, or your office, you’re so used to it that you don’t even think about it. Until the day the lock sticks, and you have to wiggle the key a bit to get it to...
There are many professional services that involve giving a certain degree of trust to the person or business you hire. When you sit in the dentist’s chair, you trust that they’re not going to go rogue on you and pull a tooth that’s perfectly healthy. With house...
When you least expect it, your key can get stuck in your door. It can seem like an impossible task to get the key back out. Fortunately, there are some strategies that you can use to get your key out of your door and to repair the lock so it doesn’t happen again. Use...
When homeowners move into their new property for the first time, it is a smart idea to have the keys changed over. For homes with deadbolts and separate door locks, many homeowners wonder if they should have the locks keyed to use one key for both locks or to have...
How Keys Work to Unlock Locks We all have a set of keys. One for home, two for the car, another for work, plus perhaps our mailbox, safe, or even storage space keys. Our key rings are full of them so that our things can be locked away safely and securely, yet we may...
Keys have come a long way in terms of technology and development since their earliest invention and use. The keys we use now don’t look anything like those used 6,000 years ago in ancient Babylon and Egypt. Ancient keys were wooden, bulky, and heavy. Keys are now...
