Residential Locksmith in New Westminster

Rekeying is $25-$45 per cylinder with two fresh keys included, or $60-$120 per cylinder for restricted high-security hardware. A lock change is $80-$160 installed per door. A home lockout is $80-$160 in standard hours. The service call is $75 in standard hours, after-hours labour starts at $150 between 5 and 9 pm and runs $250/hour from 9 pm to 8:30 am.

Arrival is 25-35 minutes to most New Westminster addresses including Queensborough, and everything is on the price list before we dispatch. This page absorbed the separate lock-change, rekey and lockout pages for the city, so all three are covered here.

New Westminster has more pre-war housing than anywhere else on our map, and heritage hardware is a genuinely different trade from swapping a Kwikset.

The typical Queens Park front door carries a mortise case with a separate key and knob spindle, a rim lock on the back porch, and brass knob sets worn smooth by a century of hands. What fails is rarely the cylinder. It is the case springs, the spindle, or the fit of the door in a frame that has moved. We rebuild the case, replace springs and followers, re-pin or replace the cylinder, and correct the strike so the door latches without a shoulder against it.

Where a case genuinely cannot be saved, we fit a modern deadbolt behind period-matched trim so the door keeps its appearance and gains a bolt that actually throws. Owners on heritage streets usually want the original look preserved, and there is no reason they cannot have both. Where the door leaf or frame needs work, see door repair.

Rekey when the hardware is sound and only the key holders have changed: a purchase, a tenant leaving a Sapperton suite, a lost keyring on the SkyTrain, a renovation where trades held a key. Re-pinning is $25-$45 per cylinder and takes about twenty minutes a door. See lock rekeying.

Replace when the hardware itself has failed: a bolt that no longer throws fully, a plug worn enough to need jiggling, a knob-only entry door with no deadbolt, or builder-grade hardware on a screened side entrance. That is $80-$160 installed. See lock changes.

Suites are the local specialty. A large share of New Westminster houses have a basement or upper suite, and the right pattern is a suite key and a main-floor key that do not cross, with the shared laundry, side entrance and mailbox keyed sensibly around them. We set that up in one visit and write down what opens what.