Key Cutting & Duplication in Burnaby

There are two ways to get a key cut for a Burnaby address, and the right one depends on the key.

At the counter. Bring the original to the shop at 4105 Macdonald St in Vancouver. A blank is $4.75. Cutting a house or office key is $5-$15 each, and specialty or commercial blanks are $8-$30. Standard keys are cut and tested while you wait. Blanks are also listed in the key blanks section of the shop.

On the truck. If bringing the key in is the problem, we cut at your address instead. The truck reaches most of Burnaby in 25-35 minutes and carries the same machines as the counter. That is the right choice for a strata that needs twenty suite keys, a landlord doing a turnover, or a car key that has to be programmed to the vehicle anyway.

House and office keys

Schlage SC1, Kwikset KW1, Weiser WR3, Yale and the common commercial mortise keyways are all stocked. $5-$15 per key cut, $8-$30 for specialty and commercial blanks, on a computerised machine rather than a worn hardware-store kiosk. Every key is tested against the original or the lock itself before it leaves the counter, and if the first one does not turn we cut another.

Restricted and high-security keys

Mul-T-Lock, Medeco and Schlage Primus keys are $30-$80 each, cut to the registered code, and only against written authorisation from the registered keyholder. That is the point of a restricted keyway: a key that walks off a Metrotown strata or a Big Bend warehouse cannot be copied at a kiosk. More on the hardware is at high-security locks and the Mul-T-Lock interactive system.

Car keys and chip keys

A chip key has to be cut and then written to the car, so it is not a counter job unless you drive to us. A spare transponder is $180-$240 and a spare smart key is $300-$420 with one working key in hand. Replacements and all-keys-lost work sits on car key replacement in Burnaby.

The truck route covers Metrotown, Brentwood, Lougheed, Edmonds, Highgate, Capitol Hill, Burnaby Heights, Deer Lake, Big Bend and the SFU campus on Burnaby Mountain. Arrival is 25-35 minutes.

Mobile cutting earns its keep on three Burnaby jobs. Strata and property managers who need a documented set for every suite in a Metrotown or Brentwood tower, cut once and logged. Landlords running a turnover in Edmonds who want the old keys dead the same afternoon, which is a rekey at $25-$45 per cylinder with two keys included rather than a duplication job. And import vehicles with awkward immobilisers, including the Japanese right-hand-drive imports that other shops turn away, which we have been cutting since the 1990s. The site-wide page is key cutting in Vancouver.