Moving into a Richmond condo off the Canada Line, a Steveston heritage home, or a Broadmoor townhouse? Lost a key? We rekey or change your locks the same day — one call, one visit, upfront price before we touch anything.
If you've just moved into a place in Richmond — a high-rise tower near Brighouse Station or Richmond Centre, a strata townhouse in Hamilton or Terra Nova, a heritage wood-frame home along Steveston's village streets, or a single-family detached in Seafair or Broadmoor — the keys in your hand have almost certainly passed through several sets of hands before yours. Rekeying or changing the locks is the fastest, most cost-effective way to reset your security the day you move in.
We carry both options and will tell you honestly which one suits your door. A rekey replaces only the internal pin tumblers inside your existing cylinder — the lock body, bolt, and exterior hardware stay in place, old keys stop working, and your new keys are cut on-site before we leave. A full lock change removes the entire lockset and installs a new one — the right call when the cylinder is worn, undergraded for your insurance, or the door hardware needs an upgrade anyway. Both leave you with full control of your home from day one.
Pricing depends on lock grade, brand, and whether you need a rekey or a full change. The ranges below are honest estimates — not minimums used to get in the door. Your final price is quoted on the phone and confirmed on-site before anything is touched.
| Service | Typical range (per cylinder) |
|---|---|
| Rekey — residential deadbolt or knob set | $35 – $65 |
| Rekey — multiple locks, key-alike same visit | $25 – $50 each (bulk) |
| Lock change — grade 2 residential deadbolt (supply & install) | $120 – $200 |
| Lock change — grade 1 / high-security (supply & install) | $180 – $320 |
| Commercial deadbolt change or rekey | $80 – $160 per cylinder |
| Service call / dispatch fee | $49 – $75 (credited toward work) |
After-hours and overnight calls carry a clearly stated premium — you'll hear the rate on the phone before we dispatch. Multi-door strata and commercial jobs are quoted as a package, which typically lowers the per-door cost compared to individual pricing.
Tell us your Richmond address and the situation — move-in, lost key, post-break-in, or routine upgrade. We'll ask about the lock brand if you know it and give you a price range before anyone is dispatched.
The technician arrives, checks the cylinder grade and condition, and confirms the final price. If a rekey is the better choice — even when it costs less than a full change — we say so clearly and let you decide.
We rekey or replace the lock, cut fresh keys, and test each one in the door before we pack up. Most single-door jobs are done in under an hour. Multiple doors on the same visit run approximately 20 minutes per cylinder.
BC has no legal requirement for landlords to rekey between tenancies, and in a city like Richmond — with steady turnover in the Canada Line corridor, the high-density towers around Richmond Centre and Brighouse, and the rental suites spread through Hamilton and East Cambie — that means the keys to a newly rented home can have a long history. In older single-family areas like Broadmoor and Seafair, where homes have sometimes been rented by the same extended families for years, a fresh rekey is simply good practice when ownership or occupancy changes.
Steveston deserves a specific note. The heritage wood-frame houses along Moncton Street and the side streets off No. 1 Road are much-loved but old, and their lock hardware varies from solid original hardware to builder-grade replacements from various decades. When we arrive for a Steveston move-in, we assess not just who has keys but whether the existing lock is worth keeping — sometimes the honest advice is a clean upgrade rather than a rekey of worn hardware.
Richmond has a high concentration of strata-titled properties — from the glass-and-steel towers clustered around the Canada Line stations at Brighouse and Aberdeen, to the low-rise complexes in City Centre and the mixed-use strata buildings along No. 3 Road. Most Richmond strata bylaws treat the suite entry cylinder as the unit owner's responsibility. Rekeying the cylinder without altering the lock body or exterior hardware is typically acceptable without strata approval — but we know the landscape and can advise you before we start if your building's rules are specific.
For strata buildings that require a specific lock grade or brand on suite entries — something we see in some newer Richmond towers — we carry a range of compatible hardware and can match the manufacturer and finish your strata specifies, then rekey it to your own key pattern.
Not every door in Richmond is a candidate for rekeying. Older rental properties in areas like Gilmore and East Cambie sometimes have builder-grade knob locks with no deadbolt — a rekey makes the key control correct, but the hardware still provides minimal security. In those cases we'll recommend a full upgrade to a Grade 2 deadbolt. Similarly, if your insurer requires a specific rating, if the cylinder is worn enough that it's difficult to operate reliably, or if you're moving into a detached home on the dyke-adjacent streets in Terra Nova or Ironwood where the exterior hardware is exposed to salt air and moisture damage, a fresh lockset is worth the additional cost. We carry Schlage, Kwikset, and select Grade 1 hardware on the truck.
Mobile lock change and rekey service across Richmond — same-day availability in every neighbourhood.
Every job completed in-house by a licensed Richmond technician — mobile, same-day, no subcontractors.
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