You showed up to open the shop and the key won't turn. Or the door swung shut behind you with the keys still on the desk. A commercial lockout doesn't just cost you time, it holds up your whole day. Staff are standing in the parking lot, customers are showing up, and the register is on the wrong side of a locked door.
CLS Locksmith handles business lockouts across Thousand Oaks and all of Ventura County. We're a local, mobile shop, so we come to you with the tools to get the door open and the day moving again. Licensed and insured, CA BSIS #LCO8562, with free estimates before any work starts.
- Same-day business lockout response during our hours, across Thousand Oaks and Ventura County
- We open storefronts, offices, back doors, stockrooms, and file cabinets
- Experienced with panic bars, mortise locks, and aluminum storefront doors
- Broken key extraction and on-the-spot rekey or cylinder replacement
- Free estimate and a flat price before any work begins
- Licensed and insured, CA BSIS #LCO8562, local and family-owned since 2022
What a commercial lockout actually is
A commercial lockout is any time you can't get into your business space. That covers a lot more than a front door. We open storefronts, office suites, back doors, stockrooms, server closets, electrical rooms, file cabinets, and the glass storefront doors with the panic bars and the heavy aluminum frames that most home keys never go near.
Commercial hardware is built different from what's on a house. You've got mortise locks, panic exit devices, master-keyed systems, high-security cylinders, and aluminum frame doors that need a careful hand so the frame and the closer don't get bent up. We work on this stuff every week, so we know how to get in without wrecking the door you still have to use tomorrow.
When businesses around here call us
The keys are locked inside. A door auto-locked behind someone on a coffee run. A worn key finally snapped off in the cylinder. An employee left and the keys never came back. A lock seized up in the cold and won't budge. Sometimes a master key walks off and the whole office is suddenly a question mark.
We get calls from all over, the office parks off Lawrence Drive and Rancho Conejo, the shops along Thousand Oaks Boulevard, restaurants and suites in Westlake Village, retail in Newbury Park and Camarillo, and businesses up through Ventura and Oxnard. Wherever you are in the county, we'll come to you.
What to expect when we show up
Call (818) 454-1047 or our local line (805) 657-8997 and tell us where you are and what door you're stuck on. We'll give you a straight quote and a real arrival window, then head your way. During business hours we move fast and aim for same-day, every time.
On site, we verify you're authorized to be in the space first, then get the door open with the least invasive method that works. If a lock is shot or a key broke off inside, we can rekey or replace the cylinder right there so you're not left with a door that'll fail again next week. You get a clear price before we start, and you can pay by card, Zelle, cash, or check.