Garage Door Repair in Burnaby

Being straight about scope saves everyone a wasted visit. We are a locksmith, so on a Burnaby garage we handle the locking hardware: T-handles and their cylinders, side-door deadbolts and knob sets, slide bolts, roll-shutter and roller-door locks, keypad entry, and cutting keys to any of them. A technician reaches most Burnaby addresses in 25-35 minutes.

What we do not do is torsion springs, cables and drums, or panel replacement. A snapped spring is a garage-door company job, and it is dangerous to attempt without the right winding bars. If you describe the fault on the phone we will tell you honestly which of the two you need before anyone is dispatched.

On most Burnaby houses the garage overhead door is not the way in. The service door on the side of the garage is, because it is often the oldest lock on the property, fitted into a light frame, and hidden from the street behind a fence or hedge.

The fix is unglamorous and cheap. A Grade 2 or better deadbolt with a one-inch throw, a reinforced strike plate and three-inch screws driven into the framing rather than the jamb trim, and a solid-core or metal-clad door leaf if the existing one is hollow. A lock change is $80-$160 installed. Where the garage connects to the house, the connecting door deserves the same deadbolt as the front door, because an attached garage that opens into the kitchen is a front door in every sense that matters.

Keypad entry on a garage side door removes the spare key under the flowerpot, which is the single most common Burnaby security hole we find. We fit and set up keypad locks and hand over codes you can change yourself; smart-lock options are covered on smart lock installation.

Keying alike is the other easy win. If the house deadbolt, the garage side door and the garden gate all take the same key, people stop hiding spares. That is a rekey at $25-$45 per cylinder rather than new hardware. The detached lane garages behind the older Edmonds, Capitol Hill and Burnaby Heights houses are the ones we key alike most often, along with padlock sets for the sheds beside them. Whole-home work is on residential locksmith in Burnaby, and the site-wide page is garage door repair in Vancouver.