Garage Door Lock & Opener Repair Vancouver

A garage door has two separate systems, and only one of them is locksmith work. The lifting system, springs, cables, drums, tracks and panels, is a garage door company job. The locking and access system, T-handle and slide locks, the cylinder, the keys, the keypad, the side door and the opener lockout, is ours.

We stay on our side of that line on purpose. It is the reason this page does not quote a spring price: a locksmith quoting for torsion springs is a locksmith about to subcontract you, and you would be paying for the middle.

What we handle

• T-handle and slide lock repair and replacement.
• Garage door cylinders rekeyed, or keyed alike to the house.
• Garage keys cut, including cut to code when the key is lost.
• Keypad and opener lockouts, and side-door lockouts.
• Side and service door locks, closers and strike alignment.
• Roll-up and shutter locks on commercial units.

The T-handle in the middle of an older sectional door is a standard cylinder in an awkward housing. When it seizes, and on the coast they seize, the usual causes are corrosion in the plug, a bent spindle, or slide-lock bars that have drifted out of alignment with the track.

Repairs are the same work as any cylinder: strip, clean, restack, realign. A rekey is $25-$45 per cylinder, so a garage door can be brought onto the same key as the house rather than living on its own key in a drawer. If the housing itself has failed, a replacement lock is a lock change at $80-$160 a door.

Lost the garage key entirely? It can be cut to code or by decoding the cylinder: see key cutting in Vancouver. Bringing the whole property onto one key is covered at lock rekey.

The common garage lockout is not a broken lock. It is a dead keypad battery, a forgotten code, an opener that has lost its remotes, or a side door that was deadbolted from inside while the main door was the only way in.

We open the side door non-destructively where we can, get you back into the garage, and then deal with the cause: a new cylinder, a rekey, a keypad reset, or an external emergency release fitted properly rather than a hole drilled through a panel. Overnight and weekend calls are quoted before dispatch: after-hours labour starts at $150 between 5pm and 9pm and runs $250/hour from 9pm to 8:30am.

House and business lockouts are $80-$160 in standard hours: see emergency locksmith.

If the door will not lift, if a cable has jumped the drum, if a spring has snapped with the bang the whole street heard, or if a panel is buckled, that is a garage door company and not a locksmith. Call one directly rather than paying us to call one for you. We will say so on the phone, before anyone is dispatched, rather than turning up and charging a service call to tell you.

What we can still do on those jobs is the security side once the door is moving again: rekey the new hardware, cut keys, fit a proper side-door lock, or secure the opening overnight while you wait for the spring crew.

Published rates, quoted before the tools come out, and the same sheet as prices.

• Service call, standard hours: $75.
• Rekey a garage cylinder: $25-$45 per cylinder.
• Replace a garage or side-door lock: $80-$160 a door.
• Commercial roll-up and shutter lock change: $80-$380 per door.
• Garage key cut: $5-$15, or $8-$30 on a specialty blank.
• Lockout, home or business: $80-$160 standard hours.

After-hours labour starts at $150 from 5pm to 9pm and runs $250/hour from 9pm to 8:30am.

Everything runs from the shop at 4105 Macdonald St, Vancouver, BC V6L 2P1. One honest arrival window per city, from the same dispatch sheet the technicians work to.

• Vancouver, including Kitsilano, Dunbar, Point Grey and UBC: 20-30 min.
• Yaletown and Downtown Vancouver: 20-30 min.
• Burnaby: 25-35 min.
• Richmond: 25-35 min.
• North Vancouver, including Deep Cove, and West Vancouver: 25-35 min.
• New Westminster: 25-35 min.
• Surrey, including South Surrey: 30-45 min.
• White Rock: 30-45 min.
• Delta, including Ladner and Tsawwassen: 30-45 min.
• Coquitlam: 35-50 min.
• Port Coquitlam: 35-50 min.
• Port Moody: 35-50 min.
• Maple Ridge: 35-55 min.
• Pitt Meadows: 35-55 min.
• Langley, including Fort Langley: 45-60 min.
• Abbotsford: by appointment, 60-75 min.

The full map is at service areas. Commercial premises across the same footprint are covered at commercial locksmith.