There are 2 distinct types of door locks - regular and high security.

There are 3 grades of locks:

• Grade 1 - commercial - industrial
• Grade 2 - heavy duty residential / light duty commercial
• Grade 3 - residential (very light duty)

Regular locks most often can be readily picked open or very easily compromised by drilling. Regular locks can be made more pick resistant by insertion of "mushroom" or "spool" top pins (or drivers) there is still absolutely no way to make them more drill resistant.

Most residences have locks such as Kwikset, Weiser, Weslock, Dexter, EZ-Set, etc. Even such honored brands as Schlage, Corbin, Russwin, Baldwin, and others are usually equipped with "Regular" cylinders - even in their grade 2 and grade 1 offerings.

High security cylinders are made to be "virtually" pick-proof and usually have hardened steel inserts in them to help prevent physical attack by drilling. There are a variety of types of high security cylinders made by several different companies.

High security cylinders usually cost in the $60.00 - 85.00 range and keys are usually $10.00 or more.

What is a Master-key System?

The best and easiest way to explain master-keying is to think of a hotel. The owner has one key that fits everything - all the rooms, store-rooms, offices, etc. The office manager has a key that fits only the offices. The maids have a key that only fit the rooms. Then the guest have a key that fit only the room they are staying in.

If one of the guests leave and take their key, then a locksmith can come and invalidate that key and re-key the room to a new key. This will not, however, affect the other keys - unless the locksmith is poorly trained. Or if one of the house-keeping personnel leave, the doors can be re-keyed to replace that key which will not affect the rest of the keys.
Although the thought of being able to carry one key that would allow you to access every door in your business sounds like the ultimate in convenience - you must recognize what a masterkey system is and weigh the advantages against the disadvantages normally found in masterkey systems.

A masterkey allows management, maintenance and security personnel to carry a single key to access designated groups of doors (or the entire building) while keys issued to non-management employees will open only single doors.

A big disadvantage is: more than one key will open a single lock. That means it is possible that a key, not intended to open a specific lock, might do so. Such a key is called a "Ghost Key". Consequently, the masterkey system that is designed for your facility must be properly crafted to eliminate that possibility. Once the system is in place, key control is the secret to the integrity of the system. Key records should be audited regularly and no keys duplicated without your specific authorization.

Should you masterkey?

That's a decision you should make after a careful analysis of your requirements. We can help you design, implement and monitor a masterkey system that won't give you nightmares. How's that for convenience?

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