Commercial locksmith in Vancouver
From one sticky office door to a whole building's keys.
A storefront that will not lock at closing. A staff member who left with a key. Twelve doors, forty keys and no record of who holds what. We price the fix before any work begins.
Commercial lock work, from the front door to the server room.
Access control for business doors
Fobs, cards and codes, for when a key is the wrong tool: when you need to know who went through the door, or to revoke somebody at 5 p.m. without recalling a key.
Commercial rekeys after staff and tenant changes
Staff leave, tenants move, keys go unreturned. Rekeying the cylinders retires the old keys without replacing hardware that is doing nothing wrong.
High security locks and restricted keyways
A restricted keyway means the blank is controlled and copies cannot be cut at a hardware counter. For a business, that is usually the real security problem, not the lock itself.
Master key systems for buildings with many doors
One key for the manager, one for each tenant, and a schedule that says who opens what. Designed properly it stays tidy for years. Designed badly it becomes a drawer full of unlabelled keys.
Panic bars, exit devices and door closers
Exit hardware is life-safety hardware, often required by code, not a convenience. If a panic bar is sticking, that is a fire-exit problem before it is a lock problem.
Storefront locks on aluminum and glass doors
Narrow-stile aluminum doors take their own hardware: hook bolts, mortise cylinders and pivots. They also take a beating from public traffic and wind.
Offices, shops, strata and clinics. Different doors, same business locksmith.
Retail storefronts and boutique shops
Public-facing doors that cycle hundreds of times a day, usually on aluminum, usually needing hardware rated for the traffic rather than the price.
Office towers and coworking floors
Suite doors, server rooms and storage inside a building whose base hardware belongs to somebody else. We work to the building's keyway where the landlord requires it.
Strata common doors and property managers
Lobbies, parkades, garbage rooms and amenity doors, plus the paperwork that goes with a council decision. We quote in a form a council can approve.
Restaurant, café and bar back doors
Back doors that take deliveries, garbage runs and late closes. Grease, weather and constant use wear hardware out here sooner than anywhere else.
Warehouse and loading dock doors
Overhead doors, man doors, padlocks and gate hardware, often on a site where the doors were never keyed to any plan in the first place.
Medical and dental clinic doors
Reception, treatment rooms, records and drug storage, each with a different list of who is allowed through, and a regulator who cares about the answer.
The price of commercial lock work comes down to doors, hardware and timing.
The mobile service call is charged separately from the work. For anything beyond a single cylinder, we usually want to see the doors first. A walk-through costs you nothing and turns a range into a number.
Starting figures are on the price guide.
See starting pricesNumber of commercial doors and cylinders on the job
Twelve doors in one visit is a very different rate per door than twelve doors over six visits.
Grade of commercial hardware the door calls for
Grade 1 hardware for a public entrance costs more than residential-grade and lasts several times as long on a door that cycles all day.
Evening commercial calls versus scheduled daytime visits
Working after closing keeps your floor open during business hours. It costs more. Often it is still the less expensive option once you count lost trading time.
Keying complexity across the whole building
A single rekey is straightforward. A master key schedule is design work first and cutting second, and the design is where the value is.
What business owners ask a commercial locksmith before hiring one.
How do I check a commercial locksmith is licensed in BC?
Ask for the security worker licence number and photo ID, then check it against the Province's Security Licence Status Verification service. Any commercial locksmith who hesitates at that question has answered it.
Do you work as a strata locksmith for councils and property managers?
Yes. We quote in writing, in a form a council can put in a meeting package, and we will attend a site walk-through before the quote where the building warrants it. Invoicing goes to the management company.
Can an office locksmith match our existing keyway?
Usually. We will tell you what system you are on and whether it can be extended. Restricted keyways are the exception. Those need authorization from whoever holds the system.
Can our company be invoiced for commercial lock work?
Yes. Set it up when you book and the invoice goes to accounts payable with a purchase order number on it if you use them.
Do you carry commercial-grade locks in the van?
Common commercial cylinders, mortise hardware, closers and strike plates ride with us. Exit devices, specific finishes and anything on a restricted system are ordered in, and we tell you the lead time before you commit.
Commercial locks get picked first. Drilling needs a reason, and your say-so.
Commercial hardware is expensive and often on order. Drilling a mortise cylinder that could have been picked costs you the part, the lead time and a door out of service in between.
So the pick set comes out first, for practical reasons as much as principled ones.
If a lock genuinely has to be drilled, you hear the reason, the replacement part, the lead time and the total before it happens.
Licensed under the BC Security Services Act, identification shown on site, and the same locksmith on the quote as on the job.
Book a commercial locksmith around your opening hours, not ours.
A door that locks when you leave and opens when you arrive is the whole brief. Tell us what the doors are doing now and when your floor is quiet, and we will work to that.