Serving Birmingham since 2018

About Express Key Locksmith

We are a licensed and insured mobile locksmith company based in Birmingham, Alabama, working across all of Jefferson County. Automotive, residential and commercial lock and key service, brought to you rather than the other way around.

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Licensed & insured
Serving Birmingham since 2018
Fully mobile, we come to you

Express Key Locksmith has provided reliable, professional locksmith solutions since 2018. We offer full service automotive, residential and commercial security services, handling everything from emergency lockouts and rekeying through to complete lock replacements and installations. We also handle advanced transponder key programming, ignition repairs, broken key extractions and key replacement.

What we do

Automotive: car key replacements, fob programming, ignition repairs and emergency vehicle lockouts.

Residential: home rekeying, lock repairs, deadbolt installations and lock upgrades.

Commercial: commercial rekeying, lock replacement, master key systems and security hardware installation.

Why fully mobile

Locks and keys are not a problem you can bring to a shop. A car with no working key cannot be driven anywhere. A front door that will not open cannot be carried in. So the equipment travels with us: key cutting machines for edge-cut and high-security laser-cut blades, transponder and proximity fob programming tools, rekeying and pinning kits, extraction tools and a stock of residential and commercial hardware.

That is why a mobile locksmith is usually cheaper than a dealership for car keys: there is no tow, and no service appointment to wait for. It is also why a house rekey takes one visit rather than leaving your door unlocked while cylinders go somewhere to be worked on.

How we work

A few things we hold to on every job, because they are the things that go wrong elsewhere:

The price before the work. Once the technician can see the job, you get the price and the work only starts after you agree to it. Never after the door is already open.
Non-destructive entry first. Standard automotive and residential locks are picked or bypassed. Drilling is a last resort, explained and agreed before we do it.
Ownership verified. Photo ID and proof you are entitled to enter, every time, no exceptions.
Diagnose before selling parts. Worn keys, misaligned doors and failed transponder antennas all masquerade as bigger problems. We check first.
Honest limits. If a vehicle can only be keyed by a franchised dealer, or a door problem needs a carpenter rather than a locksmith, we say so instead of charging for a trip.
Tested before we leave. Keys tried in every lock, bolts checked for full extension, remotes and start functions verified in front of you.

Where we work

Birmingham and all of Jefferson County, Alabama. That covers the large cities (Birmingham, Hoover, Bessemer, Vestavia Hills, Homewood, Mountain Brook, Trussville, Gardendale, Center Point, Irondale and Hueytown) plus the smaller towns and communities across the county, from McCalla in the southwest to Warrior in the north.

The full list is on our service areas page, with a dedicated page for each area.

Licensing, insurance and identification

We are licensed and insured, and you are entitled to ask about both before work begins. Equally, we will ask you for identification and proof of ownership. Those two checks protect the same thing: they make sure locks are only opened for the people entitled to open them.

If you have not hired a locksmith before, our guide on how to choose a locksmith in Birmingham covers the questions worth asking anyone, including us.

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