Lock Rekeying in Gilroy
The lock stays on the door and takes new pins, which retires every key already out there. One key for the front door, the side gate and the garage service door. $25 to $41 per cylinder, and the second cylinder costs less than the first because the van is already at the kerb.
$25–$41 per cylinder
Typical price
11 min
Avg. arrival
24/7
Availability
Rekeying is the cheapest useful thing anybody does to a door. The lock stays where it is and takes a new set of pins, so it opens to a new key and stops opening to every key handed out before today. Worth doing when you buy, when a tenant or a crew changes, when work on the house finishes, or simply when you count the keys that exist for your door and cannot account for all of them.
It is also how a household stops carrying a ring. A typical Gilroy house has a front door, a garage service door and a back gate, and over the years those have collected three different keys of which one gets carried. Bringing them onto a single blade is $25 to $41 per cylinder, with the second and third at the low end because the van is already at the kerb, and the $89 visit counted once for the stop rather than once per lock.
Out on the acre lots and up in the hills the same job saves more, because the property has six or eight locks rather than three: a gate at the road, a shop, a couple of sheds, sometimes a pump house. Most padlocks can be keyed to match the doors, which ends the ring and, more usefully, ends the guessing in the dark at five in the morning.
There is one honest limit. A cylinder that has been outdoors for twenty years, taking dust in summer and damp in winter, cannot always be rekeyed usefully: new pins in a worn plug give you a lock that turns badly with a different key. When that is what is on your gate you will hear it, with the replacement priced against the published $112 to $279 rather than folded in quietly.
“Bought my grandmother's house and wanted every old key to stop working. Front, back and the garage down the side, all onto one key, $96 for the three. He kept the original 1940s lock on the front because he said it was better than anything he would sell me, and just repinned it. Handed back the old keys in a bag.”
All sixteen jobs and their ranges are on this page, and so is the hour. Say what time it is and what happened, and the range closes to one figure on the call with the hour already counted in.
- Early (4am–7am)+$40
- Daytime (7am–8pm)standard rates
- Evening (8pm–12am)+$40
- Overnight (12am–4am)+$70
FAQ
Lock Rekeying: quick answers
How many locks can you do in one stop?+
As many as the property needs. The $89 visit is counted once for the stop, and each cylinder is $25 to $41 with the second and third at the bottom of that range. Three doors onto one key is usually under an hour; a country parcel with seven or eight locks is a morning.
Can the padlocks go on the same key as the house?+
Most of them, yes. It is the single most useful thing on a property with a gate, a shop and a couple of sheds, because it ends the ring of keys you are sorting through in the dark.
We just bought the house. Rekey or replace?+
Rekey, almost always. New pins mean every key handed through the builder, the agent and their trades stops working, which is the entire point, at a fraction of the price of new hardware. Replacement is for a lock that has actually failed.
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Say the hour and what stopped you, hear the figure, get to work on time
Gilroy plus San Martin, Hollister, Aromas, San Juan Bautista and Watsonville, around the clock, every day. Four to seven in the morning costs what an evening costs and less than a night, and whatever hour it is, the number comes back on the call with the $89 visit already inside it — and it is the number on the receipt.