About
How Denver Key Line works
Denver Key Line matches lock jobs in Denver and four suburbs (Aurora, Lakewood, Englewood, Arvada) with a locksmith business that works nearby. Nobody here picks locks or cuts keys. You tell us the problem; we send it to exactly one independent company; that company phones you, sets a price and, if you say yes, does the work.
Who pays us
Our fee comes from the locksmith business, per introduction. You never get a bill from us. The price you hear is the locksmith's own, and none of it is skimmed off to us.
Five things we expect from that company
- Its legal or registered trade name, said on the call and printed on the invoice, and searchable on the Colorado Secretary of State's business site.
- A single figure for the whole job, travel included, before work begins.
- A look at your ID before it opens a house or a car, or cuts a key for one.
- Non-destructive entry tried first; if drilling is needed, a reason first.
- An itemized invoice at the end.
Fell short on any of these? Text (720) 802-2054 and tell us.
The Colorado problem
The state licenses more than 100 occupations, most through the Department of Regulatory Agencies, and has never added locksmiths. Denver hasn't either. Anybody with a van and a phone number can call themselves a locksmith on the Front Range, so the screening falls to you, on the phone. What you can still check.
Sources
Each guide ends with a list of what it cites, with links. The data page is our own work from Census, FBI and NOAA files, and we publish exactly how we built it. Read the method.
The writer
John Voll writes the guides. He has never worked as a locksmith. His job here is reading the price surveys, statutes and federal data, and citing each one.
Photo credits
All photos come from Unsplash, used under the Unsplash License: Bill Griepenstroh, Acton Crawford, Tracy Adams, Antoine Gravier, Josh Lemmon, Derek Nelson, Bence Balla-Schottner, Jakub Zerdzicki, Haberdoedas. The pictures are illustrations and show no locksmith's actual jobs.