Emergency Rekey in Vancouver
Lost your keys, or had a set stolen? An emergency rekey re-pins your locks tonight so the missing key stops working the moment we drive away — no waiting for a daytime appointment while someone out there holds a key to your door. We’re a mobile, licensed Vancouver locksmith on the road around the clock, with a roughly 20-minute average response across Greater Vancouver.
Why rekey instead of wait
Rekeying changes the pins inside your existing cylinders so the old key no longer turns them and a brand-new key does. Nothing is unbolted from the door and no hardware is thrown out — the lock you already own keeps working, just to a different key. That makes it the fastest, cheapest way to shut a lost or stolen key out of your home or business, which is exactly why it’s worth doing the same night rather than living with a key you can’t account for.
We treat a missing key as a security problem, not a scheduling one. One of our vans comes to you anywhere in Greater Vancouver — Downtown, Yaletown, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, East Vancouver, Kerrisdale, Dunbar, Burnaby, Richmond, New Westminster, and the North Shore — re-pins every affected lock to a fresh key, and hands you the new set before we leave. You get the peace of mind of a lock only you can open, tonight, instead of a week from now.
What an emergency rekey covers
- Old key killed. Every affected cylinder is re-pinned so the lost or stolen key stops turning immediately.
- One key for the lot. We match all your exterior locks to a single new key so you carry one, not five.
- Fresh cut keys. A working set cut and tested on the spot — extra copies for family or staff on request.
- Homes & businesses. Deadbolts, knob sets, storefront and office cylinders re-pinned the same visit.
- Any hour, 24/7. We’re on the road overnight and on weekends — no after-hours markup on the rate.
- Lock health check. Worn or sticky cylinders flagged while we’re inside, so a rekey isn’t hiding a fault.
From your call to a fresh key
Call & confirm the price
Tell us how many doors and where you are. We quote a fixed price up front and dispatch the nearest van.
Re-pin on your doorstep
We open each cylinder, swap the pin stack to a new combination, and reassemble — usually minutes per lock.
Test, hand over, done
You get the new keys, we prove the old one is dead, and you sleep knowing nobody else can get in.
The missing key stops working tonight
When a key is gone you don’t know who has it or where, and a lock you can’t trust is no lock at all. An emergency rekey closes that gap the same night for a fraction of new hardware — and we always try the non-destructive route first, picking or bypassing where we can so nothing gets drilled unless it’s the last resort, which we’d quote you before ever starting. The price we agree on the phone is the price you pay: no call-out surprises, no after-hours premium.
Licensed, bonded & insured · BC Security Worker Licence #E106677 · fixed, upfront pricing agreed before any work.
