Locksmith in Hales Corners, WI

Locksmith in Hales Corners, from the park to your porch

A locksmith in Hales Corners gets two kinds of calls: neighbors locked out of their homes, and visitors locked out of their cars at Whitnall Park. We handle both as a mobile locksmith, with the tools and keys in the vehicle. A lockout usually takes a few minutes once we arrive, and a rekey, a keypad lock, or a car key takes 15 to 60 minutes. Hales Corners is about 10 miles southwest of downtown Milwaukee.

The corners that gave the village its name

Hales Corners takes its name from the Hale family, who settled here in 1837 and owned three of the four corners where Janesville Road meets 108th Street, today Highway 100. The corners grew into a meeting place for farmers, first with horse traders and then with regular fairs where farmers bought and sold pigs, cattle, and sheep. For a long time the community was part of the Town of Greenfield, and it became an incorporated village in January 1952. Today it covers about 3.2 square miles and is home to about 7,500 people.

Whitnall Park and Boerner Botanical Gardens

Hales Corners sits beside Whitnall Park, which covers about a square mile, 640 acres, and is the largest park in Milwaukee County. It was first called Hales Corners Park. Inside it are Boerner Botanical Gardens, built in the 1930s with help from federal work programs and open from late April to early November, and the Wehr Nature Center, about 220 acres of protected land.

A park that size means long walks, picnics, and a lot of cars in the lots, and that means keys locked in cars, keys dropped on a trail, and fobs left in a picnic bag. For a lockout, tell us which lot you are in, and we open the car. For a key that is gone, we make a new one at the car: a key with no spare starts at $119, and a push-to-start smart key starts at $159 (lost car keys). A garden visit that ends with a lockout still ends at the car, not with a tow truck.

Keypad locks for family and caregivers

In a small village, a lot of houses have someone who needs to get in without a key: a grandchild after school, a dog walker, a nurse, or a neighbor who checks the house during a trip. A keypad or smart lock solves that. Each person gets a code, a code can be removed when it is no longer needed, and nobody has to hide a key under the mat. We install the lock on your existing door, set up the codes, and keep a key backup in case the batteries run down. Installation starts at $99 (smart locks).

Rekeying homes in Hales Corners

When a house changes hands, the old keys leave with the sellers, their family, and whoever they gave a copy to. A rekey makes all of those keys useless without changing the hardware. We key the front, back, and garage doors to one new key. A first lock rekey starts at $59, and each additional lock on the same visit starts at $20 (rekeying).

Shops, offices, and restaurants

Hales Corners has a compact business district with shops, restaurants, and professional offices. For these businesses, we rekey after staff changes, replace worn cylinders, fix door closers, and repair exit devices on rear doors. A business lockout starts at $89, and panic bar repair starts at $129 (panic bars).

Driving to Hales Corners

We reach Hales Corners from all directions: from Greenfield to the north, from Greendale to the east, and from Franklin to the south. Highway 100 connects the village north toward West Allis, and New Berlin and Muskego are just to the west and southwest. The price is the same everywhere we work.