How do you control who has a copy of the entrance key?

The most effective way is to fit a protected key cylinder at the entrance, whose copies can only be made by showing the ownership card.

This is how it works:

• The community, through the president or the property manager, keeps the card.
• Anyone who needs a new key asks the community, which orders it with the card.
• A simple list is kept of how many keys there are and who has each one.

With an ordinary key, any resident or tenant can have copies made anywhere and, within a few years, nobody knows how many there are. On urbanisations with a lot of holiday letting this happens very quickly.

We do not cut keys, but we do fit the protected cylinder and combine it with a master key if the community wants one. We explain it in master key systems.