Key Cutting in North Vancouver

This page is for keys that turn a lock. Car keys and fob spares are a separate job on key duplication in North Vancouver.

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 North Vancouver address, 25-35 minutes from dispatch. Blanks are listed under key blanks.

Keys are cut on computerised equipment and every one is tested against the original or directly in the lock before it leaves. If the first copy does not turn we cut another, because the usual cause is a worn original rather than a bad blank, and cutting to code fixes that properly.

We stock Schlage SC1, Kwikset KW1, Weiser WR3, Yale and the common commercial mortise keyways, plus the wafer blanks used by mailbox, cabinet and window locks. The North Shore also has a fair amount of older hardware, particularly on Grand Boulevard and in the Deep Cove cottages, where the keyway is obsolete and we cut to the lock rather than to a worn key. The site-wide page is key cutting in Vancouver.

The most useful thing a North Shore household can do with key cutting is stop needing so many keys. A Lynn Valley or Westlynn house typically has a front door, a back door, a detached garage side door, a shed and a gate, on five different keys, which is why there is a spare hidden outside. Keying those alike is a rekey at $25-$45 per cylinder rather than new hardware, and it ends the hidden-key habit.

Restricted keys are the other end of the scale. The blank itself 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, which is what keeps a key from leaving a strata or a Norgate yard and coming back as three copies. See high-security locks and lock rekeying, or the home list on residential locksmith in North Vancouver.