Residential Locksmith in Burnaby

The four jobs that make up most Burnaby home calls are rekeying, lock changes, lockouts and lock repair, and all four are done at the door in one visit.

Rekeying is $25-$45 per cylinder for standard Schlage, Kwikset, Weiser and Yale hardware, with two fresh keys included, and $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 of Burnaby. The whole sheet is on the price list.

Rekey when the hardware is sound and the only problem is who holds a key. Moving into a Burnaby house, a tenant moving out of the basement suite, a lost keyring, a relationship that ended, a contractor who kept a copy. Re-pinning the existing cylinder makes every old key dead for $25-$45 and takes twenty minutes a door. Site-wide detail is on lock rekeying.

Replace when the hardware itself has failed or was never good enough. A key that has to be jiggled, a deadbolt that no longer throws its full bolt, a knob-only entry door with no deadbolt at all, or a builder-grade lock on a door that faces a lane. That is $80-$160 installed, and it is also the moment to move up a grade rather than fit the same thing again. See lock changes and high-security locks.

Metrotown and Brentwood condos

Suite rekeys after a purchase or a tenant change, fob and reader faults on the parkade and amenity doors, and the occasional deadlocked euro cylinder that has to be replaced to open. In-suite locks are yours; common-area cylinders go through the strata, and we deal with the council directly.

Edmonds, Highgate and the Kingsway corridor

Detached houses with basement suites, which makes this the busiest turnover-rekey area in Burnaby. Keying a suite and a main floor separately, then keying the shared laundry and side entrance alike, is the usual pattern.

Capitol Hill, Burnaby Heights and Deer Lake

Character houses, many still on original mortise cases and rim locks. The common fault is a door that has swollen out of the strike rather than a failed lock, and that is a hardware repair. Where a case is beyond saving we fit a modern deadbolt behind period-matched trim.

Burnaby Mountain and UniverCity

Student rentals and newer strata. Frequent turnovers, lost fobs and keyed-alike requests so one key runs the suite, the storage locker and the bike room.