Emergency Locksmith in Burnaby

The number is answered by a person, not a menu, at any hour. A technician reaches most Burnaby addresses in 25-35 minutes from the Vancouver shop.

A home or business lockout is $80-$160 in standard hours. The service call is $75 in standard hours. After-hours labour starts at $150 between 5 and 9 pm and runs $250/hour from 9 pm to 8:30 am. The rate is quoted on the phone before we dispatch, so there is no surprise overnight charge. If keys are gone rather than locked inside, rekeying the cylinders on the same visit is $25-$45 each.

Almost every Burnaby lockout is opened without damage. On a standard residential cylinder that means picking or bypassing it, and the lock keeps working afterwards with the same key. Most take five to fifteen minutes once the technician is on the door.

Two situations change the plan. A high-security cylinder such as Mul-T-Lock or Medeco resists picking by design, so on those we would rather pull the cylinder and replace it than spend an hour on the doorstep. And a deadlocked euro cylinder on a condo door is opened by a technique that destroys the cylinder, which we say on the phone before we come so the replacement cost is not a surprise. Either way you are told the plan before work starts.

After a forced entry the priority is a door that closes and locks tonight. We fit a new cylinder, replace the split strike with a reinforced plate and three-inch screws driven into the framing rather than the jamb trim, and repair or replace the hardware that failed.

Then we look at why it opened. On Burnaby ground-floor suites and townhouse entries the usual weaknesses are a short strike screw, a hollow jamb and a sliding patio door with no secondary lock. Those are cheap to fix and they are the difference between a repeat visit and none. A lock change is $80-$160 installed per door and a high-security cylinder upgrade is $60-$120 per cylinder. Frame and closer work is covered on door repair.

Losing every key is a different job from being locked out. For a home we rekey the cylinders so the missing keys stop working, at $25-$45 per standard cylinder and $60-$120 per restricted cylinder, and cut you a fresh set on the truck.

For a vehicle with no working key we originate one at the car: pull the code, cut the blade and write a new key to the immobiliser. That starts at $180 plus the key type, needs registration or insurance in your name plus photo identification, and on some 2015 and newer vehicles includes a manufacturer security delay of 10 to 60 minutes. Burnaby car work is on car key replacement in Burnaby and the site-wide walkthrough is all keys lost.