How Novak Lock & Security Marietta Was Born in Marietta
It was a Tuesday evening in late October when we saw the gap. A homeowner in East Cobb had called three locksmiths after locking herself out of her kitchen door. The first quoted $45 over the phone and demanded $340 at the door. The second never showed. The third sent someone who drilled her deadbolt without asking, then charged her for a new lock she didn’t want. She was standing on her own porch, shaking, holding a receipt she couldn’t afford.
We were working for another company then, and we drove out to help her because no one else would. That was the moment. Marietta had plenty of people who could pick a lock, but it didn’t have anyone who would tell you the truth before they started and stick to it after they finished. We opened this branch in 2002 to be that company. The Haven Standard was already there, Clause 1 in particular: the price you hear on the phone is the price on the invoice, period. We brought it to Cobb County because this market deserved it.
Daniel Novak’s Personal Connection to the Locksmith Trade
Daniel Novak didn’t stumble into this work. He was pulled into it by the mechanics of it, the way a pin tumbler yields to patience and the right tension wrench. He started as a kid in his grandfather’s workshop, though the old man wasn’t a locksmith, just a tinkerer who believed anything broken could be understood if you took it apart slowly enough. Daniel spent hours there, breathing in the smell of machine oil and brass shavings, learning to feel the difference between a binding pin and a free one before he could name either.
The defining moment came in his early twenties. A tradesman who trained us, a real old-school locksmith from the north side of Atlanta, handed Daniel a Medeco cylinder and said, “This one will teach you whether you belong here.” It took him four hours that first time. The second took two. By the tenth, he could feel the sidebar engage by sound alone. That was over ten years ago now, and he still gets that same feeling when a stubborn lock finally turns, the same quiet satisfaction of solving something with his hands that a computer couldn’t touch.
If Daniel weren’t doing this, he’d probably be restoring motorcycles or fixing antique clocks, something with gears and patience and no shortcuts. What gets him out of bed is the same thing that kept him in that workshop: a person on the other side of a door who needs to get through it, and the knowledge that he’s the one they can trust to do it without making them feel foolish for needing help.
Meet Daniel Novak - The Person Behind Every Job
Daniel Novak is the Owner and Founder of Novak Lock & Security Marietta. He holds state licensure as required by Georgia law and has built his training through a combination of formal locksmith certification and years of field apprenticeship under master tradesmen in the greater Atlanta area. He is not a corporate technician rotated through from another city. He lives here, works here, and his name is on the van because this is the one trade where that matters.
Daniel is the one who answers the detailed questions, who explains why a Baldwin mortise lock costs what it costs, who texts customers a photo of the technician en route. Outside of work, he restores vintage motorcycles in a garage off Canton Road, a hobby that requires the same patience and precision he brings to every rekey. His commitment to you is simple: he will never send someone to your home he wouldn’t send to his own.
Our Promise to Marietta Homeowners
Honest pricing means we name your range on the phone, in dollars, before anyone drives to you. No call-out surcharge gets added at the door. We learned that from the Haven Standard, and we’ve watched it protect hundreds of homeowners from the bait-and-switch that still defines this trade.
Quality parts means we stock Kwikset, Yale, and Medeco hardware, and we explain why one fits your door better than another. We don’t install what we wouldn’t put on our own homes.
Standing behind every job means a written warranty with every invoice, not a verbal promise that evaporates. If something we installed fails, we fix it. That policy has cost us money, and we’ve never regretted it once.
Our Credentials
- State-licensed - Every pro working under our name is required to hold the license their state requires, and we verify it before they ever touch a customer’s lock.
- Insured & bonded - Protection for your property while we’re working in your home.
- Years of local experience - Daniel Novak has spent more than a decade serving homeowners across Cobb and Fulton counties, from Kennesaw to Sandy Springs.
- Strong local reputation - We are known in Marietta for arriving on schedule, quoting honestly, and documenting every job with photos and written scope.
These credentials matter because you’re letting someone into your home, often at a vulnerable moment. A license proves training. Insurance protects against the rare accident. Local experience means we know which builder-grade locks fail first in Georgia humidity, and which neighborhoods in Acworth and Roswell still have the original hardware from the 1980s build boom. Documentation means you have evidence of what we found, not just our word.
Rooted in Marietta
This branch lives in the same traffic patterns our customers do. We know the difference between a rush-hour call in downtown Marietta and a Saturday morning lockout near Kennesaw Mountain. We’ve rekeyed homes after closings in the Paper Mill Road corridor, installed deadbolts in the historic district near the Strand Theatre, and helped homeowners in East Cobb who couldn’t get their Yale smart locks to sync after a power outage. Daniel’s kids have grown up here. His trucks get serviced at the same shops yours do. When we say we’re local, we mean we can’t afford to burn a neighbor, because in a town this size, word travels.
Written by Daniel Novak, Owner at Novak Lock & Security Marietta, serving Marietta, Kennesaw, Sandy Springs, Acworth, Roswell, Dunwoody, Atlanta, Alpharetta, Dallas, Douglasville, Decatur, and Norcross since 2002.