Key Cutting in New Westminster

This page is for keys that turn a lock. Car keys and fob spares are a separate job on car key duplication and programming in New Westminster.

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 4105 Macdonald St in Vancouver, or we cut at your New Westminster address 25-35 minutes from dispatch. Blanks are listed under key blanks.

New Westminster is the oldest city in the province and its housing stock shows it. Queens Park, Sapperton and the Columbia Street commercial block carry a lot of pre-war hardware, and that changes the key-cutting job in two ways.

First, the keyway may be obsolete. Bit keys, old mortise profiles and long-discontinued residential keyways are not on a supermarket rack. We hold a wider blank stock than a kiosk and can often cut to the lock itself rather than to a key, which is the only reliable route when the original has fifty years of wear on it.

Second, an old key that still works is usually working on borrowed tolerance. Copying it passes the wear on and the copy binds. Cutting to code, or decoding the cylinder and cutting to that, produces a key that fits the lock as built. Every key we cut is tested against the original or in the lock before it leaves, and if the first one does not turn we cut another. The site-wide page is key cutting in Vancouver.

A restricted key is one whose blank is patented and controlled, so only an authorised cutter holds it. 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 Quayside strata or a Sixth Street business and coming back as three copies. Hardware detail is on high-security locks.

If the reason you want a key cut is that one has gone missing, duplication is the wrong tool. Rekeying at $25-$45 per cylinder kills every old key and includes two fresh ones, which is both cheaper than new hardware and safer than adding another copy to an unknown number already out there. See lock rekeying and the home list on residential locksmith in New Westminster.