Houses, cottages and rentals
Montauk homeowners call us for the everyday side of lock work: a door that shut behind them with the keys inside, a newly bought house that came with an unknown number of keys, a back door that never had a deadbolt. We open the door at any hour, rekey after a move, fit deadbolts from Schlage, Yale, Kwikset and Emtek, and cut duplicate keys.
Cottages that rent through the warm months and stay shuttered after the crowds leave need a little planning. We rekey before closing, install keypad locks so a caretaker or the next tenant gets a code of their own, and add home safes for valuables left behind.
Harbor, motel and downtown businesses
Restaurants, marinas, motels and shops all have kitchen doors, storerooms, offices and cash to lock up. We install and repair commercial locks, fit Medeco and Mul-T-Lock high-security cylinders on doors that need them, and put exit devices on back and side doors. A master key system lets a manager open everything while each employee carries a key for only the doors their job requires.
Staff in this hamlet change with the calendar. When the summer crew heads home, we rekey the locks their keys fit, and in spring we cut new keys for whoever is hired. Business safes can be installed, opened when a combination is forgotten and given a new one.
Salt air on every door
Ocean weather is hard on hardware, whether it sits on a cottage slider or a dockside office. A cylinder that turned easily in August may bind by the following spring. We service stiff locks, extract keys that snap off in them and replace the ones past saving.
The end of the South Fork
Montauk is a hamlet in the Town of East Hampton, at the eastern end of Long Island’s South Shore. Montauk Point Light, completed in 1796, was the first lighthouse in New York State. Lake Montauk, a small bay on the north side of the hamlet, is home to a U.S. Coast Guard station and to commercial and recreational fishing boats, with marinas and working docks along West Lake Drive.
In 1926 developer Carl G. Fisher began buying land here and built Montauk Manor as a luxury resort hotel. The Long Island Rail Road’s Montauk station links the hamlet to New York City, and Hither Hills State Park and Montauk Point State Park bracket it to the west and east.
Call for service
For a house lockout, a rekey after the season or new hardware on a shop or motel door, call The Village Locksmiths at (631) 324-2547. Lockout calls are answered 24/7.