Strata, shop and office hardware from the Downtown towers to the Mount Pleasant studios. Re-keys, lock changes, key cutting, spare car keys and safes across the West End, Yaletown, Kitsilano and every Vancouver neighbourhood in between.
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Safe & Secure serves Vancouver with mobile technicians in fully equipped vans, so the work is done at your door, building or site. Vancouver jobs are booked and quoted on the phone before anyone drives.
Vancouver is our home city, and each neighbourhood has its own kind of lock work. Downtown and Coal Harbour are towers and offices, the West End is older rental buildings, Yaletown is warehouse lofts and glass towers, Kitsilano is character houses split into suites, and Mount Pleasant is studios, workshops and townhouses. This page takes them one at a time, then lists the rest of the city.
Our walk-in shop at 4105 Macdonald St in Kitsilano is a short drive from Vancouver, for keys, hardware and advice over the counter. Jobs at your door are done by the same mobile technicians.
From Downtown and the West End to Kitsilano and Mount Pleasant.
Downtown, the West End, Yaletown, Kitsilano and Mount Pleasant, each in detail below.
BC-licensed, bonded and insured technicians.
Standard hours, quoted on the phone before we dispatch.
Our automotive specialist cuts and programs spare keys and fobs for almost any make, at your home, your parkade or your work anywhere in Vancouver.
Transponder spares
Chip keys copied from the key you have and programmed on the spot.
Key fobs & remotes
Push-to-start fobs and remotes programmed for most makes.
Smart keys
A second proximity key for a push-to-start car, cut and paired.
Spares & fleets
A spare before you're down to one, and keys for company vehicles.
Master-key systems on restricted keyways, storefront cylinders, deadlatches and exit hardware for Downtown offices, West End rental buildings, Yaletown shops and Mount Pleasant studios. Quoted in writing after a walkthrough.
A suite or house onto one key on possession day, or new hardware when the old is worn. Character-house mortise locks, patio doors and garage door locks too.
Locked out of a home, office or unit? You get the price and arrival time on the phone, and most locks are picked open with no damage. After a break-in we make the door lockable the same visit.
House, office and restricted keys cut and tested in the lock, at your Vancouver home, office or site.
Rated safes supplied, delivered and bolted down for Vancouver homes, offices and shops, plus safe opening and combination changes.
The same figures we quote on every job. You get the price on the phone before anyone is dispatched, and the technician confirms it at the door.
Full price list| Service call, standard hours | $75 |
|---|---|
| Lockout, home or business | $80-$160 |
| Re-key an existing cylinder | $25-$45 per cylinder |
| Re-key, restricted keyway | $60-$120 per cylinder |
| Lock change, new hardware fitted | $80-$160 |
| Master-key system | from $300 setup plus $30-$80 per cylinder ($60-$200 restricted) |
| House and office keys | $5-$15 ($8-$30 specialty and commercial blanks) |
| Spare car key, transponder | $180-$240 |
| Spare car key, smart key | $300-$420 |
| Mailbox lock, fitted | $40-$140 |
| Safe combination change | $80-$150 |
Mobile technicians
Fully equipped vans across Vancouver, licensed since 1992.
Commercial accounts
Ask about a commercial account for your buildings and sites.
Quoted in writing
A written price before any work begins, and a workmanship warranty after.
Home, auto & business
One number for a re-key, a car key or a whole building. Not three.
A West End tenant moved out.
The suite re-keyed so the old keys stop working, the same visit.
Rental 02A Downtown office changed tenants.
Re-key the suite doors and set up a master key for the new team.
Commercial 03Locked out of a Kitsilano suite.
Non-destructive entry on most locks, priced on the phone first.
Lockout 04The Mount Pleasant studio needs better locks.
High-security cylinders and a proper deadbolt on the shop door.
Commercial 05Our strata lost track of its keys.
A restricted master-key system for every common door, with a registry.
Strata 06Need a spare car key before it is too late.
Transponder or smart key spare, cut and programmed at the car.
Car keysBook online in three quick steps, or call us. Vancouver jobs are usually scheduled the same week, with the arrival time given when we book.
604-734-7233The five neighbourhoods below are detailed one by one, and the same vans work every other part of the city.
Downtown and Coal Harbour are concrete towers with fob lobbies, parkades and ground floor retail along Burrard, Georgia, Hastings, Robson, Granville and Seymour. The work splits three ways: suites re-keyed at tenant turnover, storefronts and offices with deadlatches, exit hardware and master keys, and strata common doors on restricted keyways so keys cannot be copied without authorisation.
The West End is the densest rental neighbourhood in the city. Davie, Denman, Robson, Comox and Beach Avenue are mostly 1960s and 1970s low-rise and mid-rise rentals, with character houses on the side streets. One key for the lobby and one for the suite is the usual pattern, so a tenant change means a suite re-key, and a building with too many lobby keys out needs a restricted system with a registry.
Yaletown is warehouse conversions on Mainland, Hamilton and Homer, where heavy original doors carry mortise locks that are repaired or replaced rather than simply re-keyed, and glass towers on Pacific Boulevard and Marinaside with concierge desks, parkades and storage cages. It has its own page: locksmith in Yaletown.
Kitsilano is pre-1940 character houses with original mortise hardware, houses split into upper and lower suites with their own entrances, duplexes and low-rise strata off West 4th and Broadway. Suite doors in converted houses are often the weak point, and a proper deadbolt and a re-key between tenants is most of the work here.
Mount Pleasant is built around Main Street and Kingsway. West of Main it is brick warehouse and light industrial buildings full of studios, breweries and workshops; east of Main it is character houses and newer townhouses. A single block can need high-security cylinders on a workshop roll-up and a re-key on a townhouse door.
These five are the neighbourhoods this page details, not the limit of the coverage. The same vans work Gastown and Chinatown, Fairview and South Granville, Shaughnessy, Kerrisdale, Dunbar, Point Grey, Marpole, Oakridge, Commercial Drive and Hastings-Sunrise. For a car, see our automotive locksmith page; for a lockout, our emergency locksmith page.
Photo: Coal Harbour from Stanley Park, Vancouver. Ueutyi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Yes. Our mobile technicians work across Vancouver from fully equipped vans, so the work is done at your home, building or site.
It depends on where in Vancouver you are and where the van is, so you get the arrival time when you book. Bridges and downtown traffic are the variable, and we say so when we quote.
Yes. The five neighbourhoods on this page are the ones we detail, and the same vans work Gastown, Chinatown, Fairview, Shaughnessy, Kerrisdale, Dunbar, Point Grey, Marpole, Commercial Drive and Hastings-Sunrise.
A transponder spare is $180-$240 and a smart key spare $300-$420, cut and programmed while you still have a working key.
Yes. Most house and office keys are cut on the visit, and restricted keys are cut to code with the building or strata authorisation.
Yes. Call us for the price and arrival time. Most modern locks are picked open without damage, and we check that you live or work there before opening. A home or business lockout is $80-$160.
Pick-, drill- and bump-resistant cylinders with keys that can’t be copied at the hardware store. Cut, pinned and registered in-shop.
1/2" steel door, digital keypad, fitted and bolted on site.
Car keys are priced by vehicle. Pick what you need and we’ll collect your make, model & year to text you an exact quote.
Request sent
A locksmith will call to confirm the time and the price before anyone is sent.