Lock Change in Burnaby

A lock change is $80-$160 per door installed, hardware included. A restricted high-security cylinder upgrade is $60-$120 per cylinder. The service call is $75 in standard hours, and a technician reaches most Burnaby addresses in 25-35 minutes.

Before booking one, check whether you actually need it. If the hardware works and you only want the old keys dead, a rekey at $25-$45 per cylinder does that for a third of the price. A lock change is the right call when the hardware itself is the problem, which is covered below. Both jobs are on the price list and the whole-home view is residential locksmith in Burnaby.

Five faults mean replacement rather than re-pinning, and a Burnaby technician can confirm any of them at the door.

A bolt that no longer throws its full length, because the door has dropped or the strike has moved. A key that has to be lifted or jiggled, which is a worn plug rather than a worn key. A knob-only entry door with no deadbolt at all, common on older Edmonds and Capitol Hill houses. A builder-grade lock on a door that faces a lane or a dark side yard, where the grade was never right for the exposure. And any lock that has been forced, because a bent cam or a cracked housing will fail again even if it turns today.

Corrosion is the sixth on north-facing doors that catch the weather. A pitted cylinder on an exposed Burnaby Heights porch will seize in a wet winter no matter how much lubricant goes into it.

We fit Schlage, Kwikset, Weiser and Yale as standard, and Mul-T-Lock, Medeco and Schlage Primus where a restricted keyway is wanted. The difference that matters on a front door is not the brand but the grade and the strike: a Grade 2 or better deadbolt with a one-inch throw, in a reinforced strike plate with three-inch screws into the framing rather than the jamb trim. That single detail does more against a kicked door than any cylinder upgrade.

Ask for keyed alike while we are there. One key for the front door, back door, garage side door and gate costs nothing extra at install time and it is the reason people stop hiding spares outside. Smart locks are fitted the same way, with a mechanical backup key cut; see smart lock installation. Restricted-keyway options are on high-security locks and the site-wide page is lock change in Vancouver.