Keypad and Wi-Fi deadbolts supplied and fitted at Coquitlam addresses. Plenty of doors were built ready for one and plenty were not, so the bore and the backset get measured before anything is ordered.
A smart lock install is a door job with a programming step on the end, and in Coquitlam the door decides nearly all of it. The hillside stock is the straightforward half. Burke Mountain and the newer Eagle Ridge builds went up to a modern prep and a battery deadbolt drops into it with nothing else touched. The flats are the other half. Maillardville, the oldest Cape Horn streets and the untouched blocks of Austin Heights carry doors cut before the standard settled, and some of them carry mortise locks, which are a pocket in the edge of the door rather than a bore through its face. Nothing in a boxed smart deadbolt fits that. Which of the two jobs you have is settled by a tape measure, and there is no assessment fee for the measuring.
New Burke Mountain homes take a battery deadbolt on the door prep they were built with, which is why a possession-day swap is the uncomplicated end of this work. It takes that door off the builder's master in the same motion, because the cylinder leaves the door rather than getting re-pinned, and construction keys are held by trades, inspectors and the site superintendent long before closing. Every other cylinder on the house stays on the builder key until it is rekeyed as well. Newer Eagle Ridge executive builds land in the same bracket, and a number of them already run a lever set with keypad backup, so the work is an upgrade rather than a first fitting.
Door weight is not the obstacle people expect. The heavier executive slabs in River Springs and the tall two-storey entries on Westwood Plateau sit on the same 60mm or 70mm backset that most BC homes built from the 1980s onward use, and a battery unit goes on them with no wiring changes and no electrician.
Older prep is where the answer stops being automatic. Most post-war exterior doors around Austin Heights were updated at some point and take the standard 2-1/8 inch bore, but not every one of them, and a door nobody ever re-hung can carry a diameter no current model matches. The 1970s and 1980s streets around Como Lake and Ranch Park are a shorter conversation, because a keypad deadbolt goes onto the standard BC prep those homes were built with. Maillardville throws this up more than any other part of Coquitlam, simply because more original hardware is still in service there. Where the prep is standard, nothing about the door changes. Where it is not, the fix is a bore adjustment and a reinforced strike, which is the add-on row in the table below, and you hear that figure before the old lock comes off.
The list below is the whole job, and none of it is a separate line on the invoice. None of it is optional either, if you want the lock still working in five years rather than five weeks.
These are the bands the work lands in rather than a quote. What decides your actual number is the model, the door it is going onto, and how many doors there are. All three get settled while you are still on the call.
| Job type | Typical range |
|---|---|
| Fitting a lock you have already bought (deadbolt replacement) | $80 – $130 |
| Supply and install: keypad deadbolt (mid-range) | $220 – $320 |
| Supply and install: Wi-Fi smart lock (Yale, Schlage or equivalent) | $300 – $450 |
| Supply and install: premium smart deadbolt with HomeKit or Matter support | $400 – $600 |
| Door prep: bore adjustment and strike reinforcement | $60 – $120 add-on |
| Two or more locks at the same address | Ask for a bundle price |
Door condition is the variable most people do not price in. A door that already closes square takes the low end of whichever row applies to it. A door that has settled needs the prep row added, and that call is made with a tape measure on site rather than over the phone, so it stays a range until a technician is standing in front of it.
What is on it now, whether the prep is a bore or a mortise pocket, and whether you have already bought a lock. That settles the model, the price band and whether the prep row applies, all of it before anybody drives anywhere.
A motor has a fixed amount of torque and no wrist behind it. Drag that a person absorbs without noticing on a manual deadbolt turns into battery drain on a motorised one, then into a bolt that stops short. So hinges and strike come first, and the new hardware goes onto a door that already closes square.
Codes go in, the lock pairs to your network or hub, and the home automation side gets tested rather than assumed. Then you work it yourself while the technician is still standing there: lock, unlock, add a code, delete one. Nobody leaves on the strength of the installer's own test.
A smart deadbolt secures one door, which sounds obvious until you count the doors. Larger Westwood Plateau houses often run a main entry, a garage side door, a back patio door and a second garage door, so a keypad on the front leaves three cylinders behind it on metal keys. Those visits usually finish as two pieces of work: the smart lock on the entry, and the rest of the doors coordinated onto one key so the ring does not grow.
River Springs front doors are the other version of this. The heavier executive slabs there frequently carry a multi-point mechanism, and a smart deadbolt drives its own bolt and nothing else. The multi-point stays mechanical and stays on a key, which is worth knowing before you picture the whole door answering a phone.
There is also a subtraction nobody mentions at the till. Where a door sits on a restricted keyway, which in Coquitlam means mostly the golf-course-perimeter streets on Westwood Plateau and the newer custom builds in River Springs, fitting a smart deadbolt takes that door out of the restricted system it was enrolled in. A Town Centre condo suite raises the question in a different form. The hardware is rarely the obstacle on a newer Pinetree Way tower, but the strata council is the party to confirm the swap with before anything is ordered. Neither is a reason to skip the install. Both are a reason to raise it on the phone.
The door worth spending on is not always the front one. Garden-level and basement suites are thick on the ground through Harbour Chines and across the band of streets running from Hillcrest over to Como Lake Avenue, and a suite like that typically carries its own deadbolt on its own key. That is the door a keypad earns its keep on, because the code changes when the occupant does and the house key never enters the conversation. Leased suites and storefronts along Lougheed Highway, United Boulevard and the office floors on Pinetree Way sit at a different hardware tier altogether, and they belong on the commercial locksmith page rather than this one.
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