Fast Locksmith Coquitlam is a licensed mobile locksmith covering the fourteen Coquitlam areas we list and the rest of the Tri-Cities, dispatched from Coquitlam Centre. The call-out list runs from Maillardville, founded in the early 1900s for mill workers arriving from Quebec and the first French-Canadian community anywhere west of Manitoba, up to Burke Mountain, built out on forested slope over the past decade. One number covers both ends of it.
Dispatch runs out of Coquitlam Centre on one phone number. The technician dispatched is licensed in BC, the price is agreed before a van moves, and no call is handed to a subcontractor.
Coquitlam holds both ends of its own housing history inside one municipal boundary, and the hardware for both has to travel on the same shift. Plenty of the 1930s and 1940s houses around Laval Square in Maillardville still run original mortise bodies, and when one of those fails it is usually a worn cam or a snapped tailpiece rather than anything to do with the key. A Burke Mountain house handed over last year is most likely on Schlage B-series or Weiser SmartKey straight from the builder. In between sit the post-war Austin Heights grids, the 1970s and 1980s detached stock around Como Lake and Ranch Park, the late-1990s Westwood Plateau houses now into a third decade on their original cylinders, and the towers rising at Burquitlam and around Lafarge Lake.
That spread decides what travels to a call rather than what goes in the brochure. Blanks for the common Weiser, Schlage and Kwikset profiles cover most of the city, but mortise cylinders in the older profiles have to travel too, because the streets that need them are minutes away from the streets that need a SmartKey replacement. It is also why the call opens with questions about the door instead of a price: on Burke Mountain the answer is almost always a current deadbolt, and on Brunette Avenue nobody knows until somebody looks.
Fourteen areas inside Coquitlam have a page of their own on this site, running from Burquitlam and Coronation Park on the Burnaby side across to Ranch Park and down to Cape Horn in the southeast. That list does not stop at the municipal boundary either. Port Coquitlam and Port Moody sit on it too, Birchland Manor included, along with the Inlet Centre and Moody Centre station areas. Everything leaves from Coquitlam Centre on one number, and no part of that map gets quietly passed to another company, which is why the person who answers can give you an arrival estimate on the spot.
Three engines drive most of the book here and none of them produce the same job. The first is the Evergreen corridor. The towers that went up at Burquitlam, Lincoln Station and Coquitlam Centre after the line opened turn over on move-ins and tenant changes, alongside the older rental stock near Lougheed Town Centre, so the work there is usually a suite rekey or a worn cylinder on a tower door. It is also the part of the city where strata corporations and property managers book on behalf of units they do not live in, and where a late lockout after the last train is a resident who would rather not wake a property manager at midnight. The second is possession day, which on Burke Mountain stacks several calls into the same neighbourhood on a busy closing day, because a builder's construction master is not a key a new owner can account for. The third is parking. The mall parkade off Pinetree Way, the surface lots near Lincoln station, the Lafarge Lake trailhead lot, the Mundy Park lots, the golf course parking up on Westwood Plateau: a car lockout in any of them is priced the same as one in a driveway.
The figure is agreed verbally before a van is dispatched, based on the job type and the hour, and it is settled in that conversation rather than worked out on your doorstep. The hour is already inside the figure you agreed to: a call after midnight is quoted at the standard after-hours rate on the phone, not marked up once somebody is at the door. If the door opens onto something the description could not have covered, a seized cylinder, a mortise body past repair, a frame that has dropped far enough to bind the bolt against the strike, you hear the revised number before any of that is touched. Payment is card, e-transfer or cash, on site, when the work is done.
The technician who comes out is licensed in BC under Security Worker Licence E106677, and Fast Locksmith Coquitlam carries liability insurance on residential, commercial and automotive work. Nothing is subcontracted out. The person who answers the phone sends somebody who works here, which is the only reason a question three months after the job reaches whoever did it. Every job in Coquitlam is done at your address. The stock travels to the door instead: picks, a key-cutting machine, blanks, mortise cylinders and the common replacement hardware, which is why most jobs close on the first visit.
Anything already in progress is a phone call to 604-259-6771, answered by a person at any hour, with no automated routing and no call-centre bounce in between. Anything that can wait is easier to lay out on the booking form, which has room for the detail a phone call tends to lose. That form is not wired to dispatch yet, so until it is the date is agreed on the phone and nothing typed into it sends a van. Either way the job is worked by the technician who was dispatched to it, not passed along, so a question about it weeks later comes back to the same number and reaches somebody who was actually there. The full list of what we do sits on our services page, and the area pages below carry the local detail this one leaves out.
A 2 a.m. lockout at a Burquitlam condo after the last train and a booked smart lock install on a Partington Creek townhome are handled the same way, in three stages.
Urgent work goes on the phone; planned work can be laid out on the booking page, whose form is not live yet, so the date is settled on the phone in both cases. Whichever route it arrives on, we want enough about the door and the building to price it honestly, because a Maillardville mortise body and a Burke Mountain SmartKey deadbolt are not the same visit and should not be quoted as though they were. You get the price and a window before anyone sets off.
The job happens at the address, the parkade, the park lot or the driveway. Picks, a key-cutting machine, blanks and the common replacement hardware all travel with the technician, which is why most jobs close inside that one visit instead of turning into a second trip for a part.
We finish, check the figure against what was quoted, explain any difference before it is charged, and you pay on the spot by card, e-transfer or cash. Anything that needs revisiting afterwards goes back to the same number and the same people.
Fourteen of them, and the two furthest apart in age have almost nothing in common: Maillardville was laid out around Laval Square for mill workers more than a century ago, and Burke Mountain is still being finished. Past the city line we also take Port Coquitlam and Port Moody, Birchland Manor and the Inlet Centre and Moody Centre station areas included.