The buildings and the hardware
The local building stock affects the locks people need. Many houses here have older solid-core and wood doors with mortise or older cylindrical locks that need different trim and longer bolts; apartments use keyed-alike or master-keyed systems, and small storefronts tend to have commercial-grade cylindrical or mortise locks and surface-mounted exit hardware. Older doors often require retrofitting with new strike plates, longer screws, or converting from mortise to modern deadbolts. That changes how we plan a job: we bring replacement cylinders, several trim styles, and the hardware needed to adapt an older door to a more secure latch or a modern deadbolt.