Coquitlam hardware runs from pre-war cylinders around Laval Square to deadbolts fitted on the newest streets in the city, and where your door sits on that range is not what decides the job. The state of the cylinder is. It gets read first, you get told which way it goes, and nothing comes apart before you have agreed the price.
Two jobs sit under one heading here, and they are not the same job. Re-pinning a cylinder retires every key ever cut for it. Changing a lock retires the hardware as well. Which one a Coquitlam door gets is settled by the state of the cylinder rather than the age of the house, and those two things part company more often than people expect: a 1940s mortise off Laval Square can be sound, and a deadbolt fitted in the 1990s can be finished.
A rekey leaves the lock body, the bolt and the outside trim exactly where they are and changes the pins inside the cylinder. Every key cut before that morning still goes into the keyway and still moves nothing. A lock change takes the set off the door and puts a new one on, which is the answer when the hardware itself is the problem rather than the list of people holding keys.
Most Coquitlam doors get the first one. Most of what hangs on them is Kwikset, Weiser or Schlage in working order, and nothing is wrong with it except how many people can open it. The hardware is not being asked to do anything new. It is being asked to stop answering to a set of keys nobody can account for.
Condition and grade move these figures much further than the address does. A sound deadbolt on the newest street in the city and a sound one on the oldest both sit in the same band. What follows is a set of ranges rather than a minimum quoted to get a van moving.
| Service | Typical range (per cylinder) |
|---|---|
| Rekey of a residential deadbolt or knob set | $35 – $65 |
| Rekey, several locks onto one key | $25 – $50 each (bulk) |
| Lock change, grade 2 residential deadbolt (supply and fit) | $120 – $200 |
| Lock change, grade 1 or high-security (supply and fit) | $180 – $320 |
| Commercial deadbolt change or rekey | $80 – $160 per cylinder |
| Service call / dispatch fee | $49 – $75 (applied to work) |
The dispatch fee in the last row comes off the work rather than sitting on top of it, and whatever the hour of the call does to a figure is already inside the number you are given on the phone rather than added once somebody is standing at your door. Cylinders re-pinned onto one key on the same visit drop to the bulk rate in the second row, which is why a whole house is quoted as one job instead of a stack of call-outs.
How many cylinders, and whether they are all the same make. A house whose hardware arrived in one go is a simple count. A house whose hardware arrived over thirty years can have three doors and three different brands on them, which decides how many replacement cylinders travel out with the technician.
Two deadbolts that look identical from the driveway can be a rekey on one door and a replacement on the next, so each cylinder gets read at the door rather than sorted by how the hardware looks from outside. You hear which it is, and the reason, before the figure is fixed.
The new key is cut on site, the cylinders are pinned to it, and every key handed over is turned in every door before anyone leaves. One cylinder is usually done inside 20 minutes, and a worn one runs nearer 25. Three on the same house is usually finished inside the hour.
Ranch Park is the clearest version of this. The houses went up in the 1970s and 1980s and plenty of owners kept the original door slabs, so a mortise from the build can still be hanging on one door while the rest of the house has been through later rounds of aftermarket deadbolts. The band of streets around Mundy Park went the same way for a different reason: 1960s to 1990s houses whose bones are original and whose hardware was updated a door at a time, as each one failed or as somebody finally got to it.
That matters to a rekey more than it sounds. Those properties get quoted cylinder by cylinder instead of by the house, because the answer can be different on each door. Two cylinders that share a keyway go onto one key. A third that does not gets a key of its own, or gets replaced so it can join the other two, and which of those it is gets said out loud before the work starts rather than discovered halfway through.
Age on its own is not a reason to replace a lock. Wear is. The thing that ends a rekey most often in Coquitlam is a worn keyway: decades of use widen the slot until a freshly cut key sits loose in a lock it ought to sit tight in, and fresh pins under a loose key buy very little. That turns up on the oldest hardware Coquitlam has, the pre-war and early post-war streets around Laval Square, and on the older blocks in Cape Horn above the industrial flat.
The other stopper is a cylinder that has been re-pinned too many times already. Maillardville holds the clearest examples of it, on the blocks around Marmont, Schoolhouse and Berry, where a knob-and-deadbolt set or a late-vintage Schlage has been through several rekeyings and the pins have lost their consistency. One more pinning in a cylinder like that buys less than a fresh one does, which is why the common cylinders ride on the van. Mortise hardware from the 1930s and 1940s stops for a different reason again, at a worn cam or a broken tailpiece, and that is a part to source rather than a pin stack to change. Either way the replacement gets quoted at the door, against the same table above, before the old lock comes off.
Rekeys and lock changes run to all fourteen, on the rates above and the same dispatch.
Where the job turns out to be a car key, a safe dial or a whole building’s key hierarchy instead.