Key Cutting in Richmond

This page is for keys that turn a lock rather than start a car. Car keys and fob spares are a separate job on key duplication in Richmond.

A blank is $4.75. Cutting a standard house or office key is $5-$15 each. Specialty and commercial blanks are $8-$30. Restricted high-security keys such as Mul-T-Lock, Medeco and Schlage Primus are $30-$80 each, cut to the registered code against written authorisation. Bring the original to the counter at 4105 Macdonald St in Vancouver, or we cut at your Richmond address, usually 25-35 minutes after dispatch. Blanks are also listed under key blanks.

Keys are cut on a computerised machine, not a worn hardware-store kiosk, and every one is tested against the original or directly in the lock before it leaves. If the first copy does not turn we cut another, because the usual cause is a worn original rather than a bad blank, and cutting to code fixes that properly.

We stock Schlage SC1, Kwikset KW1, Weiser WR3, Yale and the common commercial mortise keyways, plus the wafer blanks that mailbox and cabinet locks use. Where the keyway is unusual, say a Steveston heritage door on original mortise hardware, we can often cut to the lock rather than the key. The site-wide page is key cutting in Vancouver.

A key stamped do not duplicate is not a legal instruction, it is a request. A restricted key is different: the blank itself is patented and controlled, so only an authorised cutter holds it. We are one, and we cut Mul-T-Lock, Medeco and Schlage Primus to the registered code at $30-$80 per key, against written authorisation from the registered keyholder. That is what stops a key leaving a City Centre strata or an Ironwood warehouse and coming back as three copies.

If the reason you want a key is that one is missing, duplication is the wrong answer. Rekeying at $25-$45 per cylinder kills every old key and includes two fresh ones, which is cheaper than replacing hardware and safer than adding another copy. Detail on lock rekeying and high-security locks, or the Richmond home list on residential locksmith in Richmond.