Need a locksmith on Sea Island? We serve the YVR airport corridor, the Burkeville residential enclave, and the airport-adjacent commercial and industrial areas — on-site in 20–35 minutes, around the clock.
Mobile and licensed, covering YVR airport's immediate area, the Burkeville neighbourhood, and the commercial and industrial operations on Sea Island.
Sea Island is the Richmond district that houses Vancouver International Airport (YVR) — Canada's second-busiest airport — along with its surrounding infrastructure. It's mostly aviation and commercial land, but it contains one of Metro Vancouver's most unusual residential pockets: Burkeville, a small neighbourhood of post-war bungalows built in the late 1940s to house airport workers. Burkeville is bounded roughly by Templeton Station Road and Cambie Road, and its homes are among the oldest residential structures in Richmond.
Burkeville homes are notable for their age and housing type. These are small, detached wood-frame bungalows, most built between 1948 and the early 1950s — decades before the Schlage and Weiser hardware that dominates contemporary Richmond. Many of these homes have had their original locks replaced over the years, but some retain older mortise or rim-latch hardware on secondary entries. Original or early-replacement door hardware on a 70-year-old bungalow door can require a non-standard cylinder or a hardware swap rather than a simple rekey. It's worth mentioning the home's age and any visible markings on the hardware when you call, so we bring the right parts.
Beyond Burkeville, Sea Island is primarily commercial and aviation-adjacent. The industrial and logistics businesses along Miller Road and the areas around the Templeton Canada Line Station and YVR-Airport Station occasionally need lock service — commercial rekeying for office units, warehouse access hardware, and vehicle lockouts in the large employee parking structures attached to airport operations.
Car lockouts on Sea Island are a distinct category. The long-term and short-term parking structures at YVR are where some of these calls come from — travellers returning from a trip to find they've locked their keys in the car, or a key fob battery that died while the car sat for a week. We handle car lockouts in all the YVR parking areas; when you call from a parking structure, give us the level and zone lettering shown on the nearest pillar so we find you without delay.
Sea Island is accessible via the Arthur Laing Bridge from the north or the Moray Bridge connector from east Richmond. Depending on the hour and where exactly you are on the island, arrival is typically 20–35 minutes from our main service area. We confirm before we dispatch. If you're in a controlled-access area of the airport property, let us know so we can discuss access logistics on the phone.
Every job handled by a licensed mobile technician — no subcontractors.
We cover all of Richmond — here are the areas nearest to Sea Island.
Pick-, drill- and bump-resistant cylinders with keys that can’t be copied at the hardware store. Cut, pinned and registered in-shop.
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Car keys are priced by vehicle. Pick what you need and we’ll collect your make, model & year to text you an exact quote.