Have you recently moved into Las Vegas? Do you have the number of your nearest Las Vegas locksmith safely stored in your cell phone? If not, you are most likely to end up swearing outside your car, house or office sooner or later without a key to get inside.

A professional locksmith will always have a 24 hour emergency number, which is answered by a real person 7 days a week. Make sure the number which you stored on your cellphone is one of them. There can be few things as frustrating as calling for help on a Friday night when you've lost the keys to your front door, and all you get is a voice on the other side asking you to call back on Monday!

A service provided by locksmiths all over the country on a daily basis is that of replacing lost keys. If you are lucky enough to have the security code for the lock at hand, they will be able to make a new key for you on demand. They will (and should) require you to identify yourself first. That is a fair security measure aimed at preventing an outsider from impersonating you and having keys cut for your car or house.

If your car or house keys were stolen, the situation is much more urgent. You simply have no alternative but to have the lock replaced without delay. If someone can steal your keys, rest assured that he can steal much more than that.

When a lock is no longer functioning properly, or a key should break off inside the lock, you will also need a locksmith to come out and assess the damage. While replacing a lock, why not consider fitting something really space-age like a digital lock? These locks are virtually impenetrable. In fact, they are guaranteed to still work after you shoot it.

Something that happens quite often, especially to owners of older model cars, is that they accidentally lock their keys inside the car. If it has happen to you, you will no doubt remember how relieved you were when the locksmith opened the car with such ease that it left you with an open mouth as well.

Your Las Vegas locksmith no doubt also regularly has to deal with car keys that got stuck or broke off in the ignition switch. This asks for a level of technical skill that someone poking around with a screwdriver simply don't have. Rather call someone who knows what he is doing.