Lock Replacement & Installation in Gilroy
Deadbolts, knob sets and levers fitted to the bore already in the door, including a first proper deadbolt for a door that only ever had a latch. $112 to $279.
$112–$279
Typical price
11 min
Avg. arrival
24/7
Availability
Two jobs share this heading. The first is straightforward replacement: a cylinder or a whole lock that is worn past useful repinning, usually an outdoor one on a gate, a shed or a garage service door that has taken twenty years of dust and damp. The second is the more useful one, and it is fitting a deadbolt where a door has only ever had a latch.
That second job is common in two places in this town. On the newer west-side builds the front door has a solid deadbolt and the door from the garage into the house has a passage latch — the weakest lock on the property, behind the door that opens with a remote. On the older east-side houses it is the back door or the door to a detached garage that never got one. In both cases a proper deadbolt is $112 to $279 fitted, and it is the only recommendation on this site made twice.
Replacing is not always the answer, and that is worth as much as the rest. A key that has started needing force is often a cylinder that wants stripping and cleaning, or a strike that has moved and can simply be repositioned — both are part of a visit rather than a purchase. A pre-war mortise case on the east side is generally a better lock than its modern replacement and should be repinned and kept. Anybody who quotes new hardware for all three has not looked at your door.
Replacement runs $112 to $279 with the $89 service call inside it. A single cylinder swapped into an existing bore sits at the low end; a full lock on an old door that needs the mortise made good, or two doors in one stop, moves it up. The make, the grade and the finish are named while the old lock is still on the door, and the old hardware is left with you unless you want it taken away.
“Two exterior doors and the gate lock, $241 for the lot, quoted and charged. Good work and he explained the difference between what was on the doors and what he was putting on. Four rather than five only because up here the drive took closer to twenty-five minutes than the seventeen I was told, though he did say the hills run longer.”
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 Replacement & Installation: quick answers
My key needs force. New lock?+
Not necessarily, and it is worth ten seconds to find out. Turn the key with the door standing open. If it still fights you, the cylinder is the problem and may want cleaning or repinning. If it turns freely with the door open and jams when shut, the lock is fine and the strike has moved, which is part of a visit rather than a purchase.
Is a deadbolt on the garage-to-house door really worth it?+
On this vintage of house, yes, and it is the one thing this site says twice. That door is often the weakest lock on the property and it sits behind the part that opens with a remote. Fitted, it is $112 to $279.
My house has original 1940s locks. Should they go?+
Usually not. Pre-war cases on the east side are heavier and better made than most of what would replace them, and a repin at $25 to $41 retires every old key while keeping the lock. Replacement is for a cracked case, a forced lock, or a plug too worn for new pins to help.
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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.