Suite re-keys, strata and shop hardware from the Mainland and Hamilton Street lofts to the Marinaside and Pacific Boulevard towers. Lock changes, key cutting, parkade and storage locks, spare car keys and safes for Yaletown condos, offices and storefronts.
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Safe & Secure serves Yaletown with mobile technicians in fully equipped vans, so the work is done at your door, building or site. Yaletown jobs are booked and quoted on the phone before anyone drives.
Yaletown is two building stocks on a few blocks. Mainland, Hamilton and Homer are brick warehouse conversions with heavy original doors, mortise hardware and ground floor shops and restaurants, and Pacific Boulevard and Marinaside Crescent are glass towers with concierge desks, fob entry, parkades and storage lockers. Most of the lock work here is inside a strata, so who holds which key matters as much as the lock. This page covers both, and answers the question we hear most: is Yaletown safe?
Our walk-in shop at 4105 Macdonald St in Kitsilano is a short drive from Yaletown, for keys, hardware and advice over the counter. Jobs at your door are done by the same mobile technicians.
From Nelson Street and Mainland to Marinaside and the seawall.
Warehouse lofts on Mainland and Hamilton, glass towers on Pacific and Marinaside.
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, European and luxury cars included, in your Yaletown parkade or at your work.
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.
Your suite onto a new key on possession day, a smart lock that keeps the corridor cylinder the strata specifies, or a better deadbolt for a loft door. Patio and balcony doors too.
Master-key systems on restricted keyways for strata common doors, mail rooms and storage, plus storefront cylinders, deadlatches and exit hardware for Mainland and Hamilton shops, restaurants and offices. Quoted in writing after a walkthrough.
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 Yaletown suite, office or shop.
Rated safes supplied, delivered and bolted down for Yaletown condos, 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 Yaletown, 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.
Just got the keys to a Marinaside condo.
The suite cylinder re-keyed so the old owner, tenants and trades are locked out.
Residential 02Locked out, and the concierge has no spare.
Non-destructive entry on most suite locks, priced on the phone first.
Lockout 03Someone emptied our parkade cages.
Closed-shackle padlocks and a re-keyed cage door, keyed to the strata system.
Strata 04A Mainland Street shop changed hands.
New storefront cylinders, or a re-pin so the old keys stop working.
Commercial 05We want a smart lock on the suite door.
A retrofit that keeps the strata cylinder on the corridor side.
Smart lock 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. Yaletown jobs are usually scheduled the same week, with the arrival time given when we book.
604-734-7233Every Yaletown block, from Homer across to Pacific Boulevard and down to False Creek.
Yes, by Vancouver standards. Yaletown is dense, well lit and overlooked, and violent crime against residents is rare. What it does have is a steady run of low-effort property crime, because a few thousand people live above shared parkades with shared doors. The pattern on our calls is consistent: almost nothing is a forced suite door. It is a tailgater through the parkade gate, a cut padlock on a storage cage, a mail room or bike room with too many keys out, or a ground floor loft door with tired original hardware. The fixes are the same ones on this page: closed-shackle padlocks, a re-keyed suite on possession day, a restricted keyway for the common doors, and a proper deadbolt on loft and storefront doors.
Most Yaletown towers put a concierge between the street and your suite, and that changes how a visit runs. The desk signs us in, holds the trades key for the freight elevator, and in many buildings is the only way a technician gets onto a residential floor without you coming down. Tell the desk we are booked and give us your suite number, and the job starts when we arrive. Fobs belong to the building system and your strata manager; the suite cylinder, storage locker and mailbox are mechanical and ours to fix.
A Yaletown parkade cage is a mesh box with a hasp, and the hasp is only as good as the padlock through it. The open-shackle padlock most people use goes in one squeeze of bolt cutters, which is why one tailgater can empty a whole row. A closed-shackle padlock, or a cage door re-keyed onto the strata system, stops that. For bike rooms and mail rooms the issue is usually keys: too many out, and nobody knows who holds them. A restricted master-key system with a registry fixes both.
Three kinds of smart lock suit a Yaletown suite door: a keypad deadbolt with a code for each person, a Wi-Fi deadbolt that logs who came and went and lets a cleaner in while you are at work, and a retrofit that fits over the inside thumbturn and leaves the keyed cylinder on the corridor side exactly as the strata specifies. The retrofit is the one we fit most here, because it changes nothing the building can see.
Photo: Yaletown from False Creek. Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Still unsure? Call 604-734-7233. A real person picks up.
Yes. Our mobile technicians work across Yaletown from fully equipped vans, so the work is done at your home, building or site.
It depends on where the van is and on downtown traffic, so you get the arrival time when you book. Tell the concierge we are coming and we can go straight up.
Usually, yes. The suite cylinder is yours if the building is on a standard keyway, and a re-key is $25-$45 per cylinder. If the building runs a restricted keyway, we need the written authorisation the key registry asks for, and a restricted re-key is $60-$120 per cylinder.
A fob that stopped reading is usually the building system, so the first call is your strata manager. We handle the mechanical side: storage lockers, cage padlocks, mailbox locks and the suite door.
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.
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A locksmith will call to confirm the time and the price before anyone is sent.