Locksmith in
Thousand Oaks

Every Thousand Oaks zip, 91320, 91358, 91360, 91361, and 91362, plus adjacent Conejo Valley communities. That covers the central core near the Civic Arts Plaza, the Newbury Park corridor on the west side, the North Ranch and Westlake pockets on the east, and the Dos Vientos edge at the far west. Give us a call with your cross streets and we give you a real ETA.

Most of the city is 20 to 40 minutes from wherever our closest van is staged. Scheduled rekeys and installs get booked into a window. Emergency lockouts jump the queue and move faster. Traffic on the 101 through the Conejo grade is the biggest variable. We tell you the realistic window when you call, not an optimistic guess to lock the booking.

Yes. Tim's Locksmith Service holds California BSIS license LCO #7134, carries State Farm general liability coverage, and maintains an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. We have been working Ventura County and the Conejo Valley for years and every technician is background checked. License number and insurance certificate are available on request before we touch a door.

We accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express, cash, and Zelle. Every job gets a flat-rate quote over the phone before we dispatch. The number you hear on the call is the number on the invoice. No trip-fee surprises, no parts-markup games, no tacked-on fees once the technician is at your door. If something changes in the field, we stop and confirm with you first.

Standard hours are 7 AM to 9:30 PM, seven days a week. That window covers most of the call volume locally, from early morning commercial openings to late-evening residential lockouts. For urgent calls outside those hours, we run after-hours emergency dispatch. Phone us and we will tell you what is available and how quickly a technician can reach you.

Yes, and do it the first day you have the keys. Escrow hands you whatever copies the previous owner chose to turn in, which rarely matches what actually exists. Contractors, cleaners, pet sitters, former tenants, and the owners themselves may still have working keys. A full exterior rekey takes about 30 to 45 minutes on a typical single-family home and closes the loop cleanly.

Yes, today. Call us and describe what is broken: door frame, cylinder, jamb, or all three. We bring replacement deadbolts, strike plates, longer screws, and jamb reinforcement in the van. If the door itself is damaged beyond a repair we can finish on site, we tell you what a carpenter needs to do first so you are not paying twice.

Yes. We install and configure Schlage Encode, Yale Assure, Kwikset Halo, August, and Level locks on most homes. The critical piece is the door prep. Older 1960s and 1970s homes in the central part of the city sometimes have non-standard backsets or worn strikes that need adjustment before a smart lock will seat and latch properly. We handle all of that in one visit.

If you are locked out and the house is empty, we prioritize the call. Most residential lockouts get a technician within 30 to 45 minutes. We use non-destructive entry on standard cylinders, meaning no drilling, no broken hardware, no replacement bill tacked onto the lockout fee. You keep your existing lock and walk back inside.

New locks are usually overkill. A rekey is faster, cheaper, and gives you the same result. We pull the existing cylinders, re-pin them to a new key, and any old copies stop working immediately. Budget around 15 to 20 minutes per exterior door. If the existing hardware is worn out or loose, we can swap it for something better in the same visit.