An opener that has stopped answering, a door that lifts halfway and quits, a side door into the garage that has never carried a deadbolt. Fast Locksmith Coquitlam is a licensed locksmith that also works on garage doors, openers and garage hardware, mobile to the driveway anywhere in the city.
A garage here is three pieces of equipment wearing one name: the door, the opener on the ceiling, and whatever is meant to hold the thing shut once it is down. They wear at different rates, they get priced separately, and on most calls only one of the three has actually failed.
Three different jobs hide behind one phrase here. A door that has stopped moving is one call, an opener that has stopped answering is a second, and a garage nobody can actually lock is a third, and the person ringing usually cannot tell which of the three they have got. It matters more in Coquitlam than it would elsewhere, because a garage here generally shares a wall with the living space rather than standing at the back of the lot, so the mechanical problem and the security problem end up sitting on the same structure. Sort out which one you are looking at first. This page is for doing that.
Repair, opener repair and garage locks each have a page of their own, linked lower down, with their own detail and their own bands. What sits here is the shape of the whole thing: the scope, the cost in the round, and the parts of a visit that cross between all three.
| Job | Typical range |
|---|---|
| New remote or keypad, supplied and programmed | $40–$140 |
| Sensor realignment / minor opener adjustment | $90–$200 |
| Garage side-door deadbolt install | $120–$280 |
| Overhead T-handle / slide lock install | $110–$260 |
| Roller, hinge, or track repair (minor) | $120–$320 |
| Opener repair (gears / limit switch / logic board) | $140–$360 |
| Opener unit replacement (parts + labour) | $300–$650 |
Those bands cover parts and labour on the jobs that come up most across the city. Spring, cable and panel work sits outside them because what it costs turns on the weight and the make of the door rather than on the fault alone, so it is priced on the garage door repair page instead, and the reason is set out further down. What moves a number inside the bands is age, since an older opener whose drive parts are no longer manufactured stops being a repair and becomes a replacement, and that gets said as soon as the model number is read off the housing.
Halfway up and stopping, grinding, closing and then going straight back up, or a garage with no lock on it at all. Two details settle most of it: whether the door is a single or a double, and whether it moves at all under its own power. That is normally enough to put a range and an arrival window on the job.
The driveway is the workshop for this one. If the door still moves, pull the car out before the van gets there, because nearly all of the work happens inside the opening itself. If the car is already shut in behind a door that will not lift, mention it when you ring, because that changes the order the visit runs in.
The mechanical fault gets dealt with first. After that comes the half people put off: cylinders rekeyed where that is part of the job, transmitters and codes sorted out where that is. Then the door is run end to end, up, down, safety reverse and lock, before anything is signed off.
There is a test that sorts most of this out before anyone is dispatched, and it costs nothing. With the door all the way down, pull the release cord and lift it by hand. A door that runs up smoothly on its own weight and stays roughly where you let go of it is a healthy door, which puts the fault on the opener side: the motor, the drive, the safety circuit or the radio link. A door that will not come up, slides back down, or grinds and snags on the way is telling you the trouble is in the door and the opener has only been dragging it around. Those are two different visits with two different parts lists on the van, which is why the question gets asked on the phone. The third case is the one where nothing is broken at all. The door goes up, the door comes down, and what the household actually wants is for the garage to be lockable, or to stop being the one door on the property with its own separate key. That is lock work, and it is booked as such.
Most garage calls in Coquitlam turn out to have more than one thing wrong, because the garage is where a household stops paying attention. When that happens the visit runs in a fixed order. Whatever is stopping the door moving gets sorted first, since nothing else can be tested properly while the door is stuck. Then the hardware that secures it once it does move. Then the keys and the codes, which is the part that decides who is still able to get in. The order is not arbitrary. A cylinder pinned while the door is sitting out of line will read as faulty the first time anybody tries it in the cold, and transmitters paired to an opener that is about to be replaced simply have to be done twice. It is one technician and one stop either way, so a repair that finishes as a rekey is still a single visit rather than two.
None of this is only residential. The light-industrial strip along United Boulevard, on the southern edge of Cape Horn, runs to bay doors and yard gates rather than garages, and the pairing there is almost always the same one: a door that has to be shut at the end of a shift and a gate that has to be shut behind it. Most of what secures both is padlocks and hasps rather than anything set into a slab, so heavy-duty padlock bodies and cylinders are what get carried for that strip. An operator who would rather staff were not running off spare keys can have those cylinders put onto a restricted keyway, which keeps copying with an authorised dealer. Newer strata complexes draw the line in a different place, and it is worth knowing where before you ring. A shared parkade door, a lobby entrance or a common-area fob system belongs to the property manager rather than to us. What gets handled at a strata address is the hardware the owner or the tenant is responsible for, from their own door inward.
Two parts of a garage door are the heavy end of it, and both are quoted from the repair page rather than from the table above. Springs are the first, along with the cables and drums they wind onto. They carry the weight of the door rather than the opener, they hold that tension even with the door all the way down, and a replacement goes back as a matched pair, wound with bars and clamps to the weight of the door it is actually on. That is why a door whose spring has gone is better left where it stopped than driven up and down on the opener, and why it is not a thing to attempt at home. Panels are the second, because a section that has genuinely been crushed has to be matched to the make and profile of the door already hanging there, which means identifying and measuring it before anything is ordered, while a bend that will still hold gets straightened in place instead. Both are recognisable from the symptom, which is why the question gets asked on the phone.
Each of the three has its own page: what the fault usually turns out to be, what it costs, and how long the visit takes.
House, car and business work, from the same licensed technician who sorted the garage out.