A garage puts three unrelated pieces of hardware into one opening: a sprung steel panel, a motor with a radio receiver in it, and a handful of keyed cylinders. They fail separately, they are priced separately, and the one a caller names is not always the one that has gone. Fast Locksmith Richmond covers garage door repair, opener repair and garage locks, mobile to every address inside the city limits, Sea Island included.
Three services sit under this page. Choosing between them is most of the work, which is why the useful thing to say on the phone is what the door is doing rather than what you think is wrong with it.
Garage work is split into three because the three really are separate crafts sharing a building. What belongs on this page is the part they have in common: how to tell which one you need, what the ordinary jobs cost, where the work hands off to somebody else, and the fact that all of it happens at your address. The neighbourhood detail and the job-by-job pricing live on the three pages linked further down.
Sort your problem by symptom, not by the part you suspect. A panel hanging crooked in the opening, rising a short way and stopping, feeling heavier than it did a month ago, or letting water track underneath belongs on garage door repair. A panel that behaves itself while the motor, the wall button, the handsets or the safety eyes do not belongs on opener repair. A garage that opens and shuts perfectly well and simply will not lock, or that carries a key opening nothing else you own, belongs on garage locks. One sentence of description decides which parts get loaded.
All three pages are written for the part of Richmond that has driveways. A caller from the No. 3 Road tower belt has the same frustration and a different answer, because the gate into a residential parkade is the strata corporation's equipment rather than any one household's. That request goes through the property manager. What a tower resident can have done on their own say-so starts at the suite door, which makes it a rekey rather than anything on this page.
Everywhere else in the city is covered, and the whole of it is done where the door already is. The work happens at your garage. Dispatch runs from inside Richmond and the arrival window is quoted per address, so a driveway out at the southern edge waits longer than one in the middle of the west-side grid while both are priced from the same rows below.
Two things get asked for under the word garage and are worth settling before a van is sent. The first is getting in through a powered door. Where the motorised overhead panel is the only way in and the handset is on the wrong side of it, that call wants a garage door company rather than a locksmith, and hearing so on the phone is better than hearing it in your driveway. The keyed walk-in door beside it, and the door leading from the garage through to the house, stay ours.
The second is the sprung end of the mechanism, meaning the springs themselves, the cables and drums they wind onto, and a section damaged past straightening. That work is done, and it is quoted on the garage door repair page rather than in the summary here. A torsion spring is wound to the weight of one particular door and holds that energy the whole time the door is down, which is why it is the one job nobody will talk you through over the phone, and why springs, cables, drums and panel sections are given rows of their own there, banded by the width and weight of the door. Rollers, hinges, a bent run of track and the opener itself are the lighter end of the same work, and they are what the summary table below prices.
| Job | Typical range |
|---|---|
| Replacement handset or outdoor keypad, paired to the opener | $40–$140 |
| Photo eyes brought back into line, or a small opener adjustment | $90–$200 |
| Deadbolt fitted to the garage walk-in door | $120–$280 |
| T-handle or slide lock added to the overhead door | $110–$260 |
| Minor door work: a roller, a hinge or a bent section of track | $120–$320 |
| Opener repaired at the gears, the limit switch or the board | $140–$360 |
| Whole opener unit swapped, parts and labour included | $300–$650 |
Those figures cover parts and labour across the garage work Richmond produces most, and they are a summary. Each of the three pages below prices its own side of it in more detail, broken out job by job. Spring, cable and panel work is priced on the repair page instead of here, because those bands follow the width and weight of the door. Describe what the door is doing and the band narrows to a figure while you are on the call, and that figure is repeated at the garage before anything is started.
Plain terms beat a guess at the cause: crooked in the opening, stopping short, silent when the button is pressed, or simply not lockable. Two extras help. Whether the garage is attached to the house or standing on its own, and whether there is a motor on the ceiling at all. That much is enough to hand you a range and a window for arrival.
Garage parts and lock hardware go out together, along with a key-cutting machine, so a garage cylinder can be matched to a key you already carry during the visit itself rather than after a trip to a counter. One licensed technician does the lot, and no part of the job is handed to a subcontractor.
The range given on the phone is repeated at the garage before any work begins. Once it is done the door is run through its full travel and its safety reverse with you there to see it, and anything keyed is tried with the key you will actually be carrying.
Full detail, per-job pricing and the Richmond neighbourhoods each one covers.
A garage rekey rarely arrives on its own. Everything below runs off the same van and the same licensed technician.