Garage Door Repair in Richmond

We are a locksmith, so on a Richmond 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 keys cut to any of them. Arrival is 25-35 minutes to most Richmond addresses.

Torsion springs, cables, drums and panel replacement are a garage-door company job, and a snapped spring is genuinely dangerous without winding bars. Describe the fault on the phone and we will tell you which of the two trades you need before anyone is dispatched. The site-wide page is garage door repair in Vancouver.

On most Richmond houses the overhead door is not the weak point. The service door on the side of the garage is: it is often the oldest lock on the property, set in a light frame, and screened from the street by a fence or hedge.

The fix is 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 leaf if the existing door is hollow. A lock change is $80-$160 installed. Where the garage connects to the house, that 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.

Richmond has more roll-shutter and roller-door hardware than most of the region, because of the Ironwood, Riverport, Bridgeport and East Cambie units. Those locks fail differently: the barrel wears, the shoot bolts drop out of alignment, and the shutter is then held by nothing useful. We service and replace them and fit keyed-alike padlock sets so one key runs a whole yard.

On houses, a keypad on the garage side door removes the spare key under the flowerpot, which is the most common security hole we find. Keying alike is the other easy win: the house deadbolt, garage side door and gate on one key is a rekey at $25-$45 per cylinder, not new hardware. Smart-lock options are on smart lock installation, and the whole-home list is residential locksmith in Richmond.