Burnaby runs on condos. The Metrotown and Brentwood towers, the mid-rises along Hastings in Burnaby Heights, the strata blocks off Edmonds Station — all of them generate a specific kind of locksmith call: rekeys on suite turnover, master-key rebuilds after a property management change, and 3 a.m. lockouts when the SkyTrain dropped someone at Metrotown and their key is still at the office. We run a mobile unit through Burnaby seven days a week, around the clock — calls from the Lougheed Town Centre area to SFU on Burnaby Mountain typically land a tech on-site within 25 to 35 minutes depending on time of day and traffic on the Lougheed Highway corridor.
Every job done in-house by a licensed Burnaby technician — no subcontractors, no "next week."
On-site in 20–30 minutes. Lockouts, break-in repair, all keys lost.
Rekey, lock change, deadbolts, home lockouts, security upgrades.
Master key systems, access control, high-security hardware.
Car lockouts, key fobs, transponder keys, ignition repair.
One of BC's highest strata-unit densities — the Metrotown precinct alone holds thousands of suites across 1980s wood-frames, 1990s low-rises, and the current concrete-tower cycle on Beta Avenue and Willingdon. Each wave brought a different key profile.
Rekey requests in Burnaby are rarely single-suite jobs. A typical call from a Brentwood property manager involves a floor or a whole building after a previous-tenant dispute or a lost fob situation. For those calls we quote on a per-cylinder basis. Residential Schlage or Kwikset cylinders in a concrete tower run roughly $35–$55 per cylinder rekeyed, depending on keyway and access (ground floor versus a unit requiring elevator access with a building contact present). Master-key systems — where suite keys open individual doors and a manager's key opens all of them — cost more because each cylinder must be pinned twice. Budget $65–$90 per cylinder for a two-level master, parts and labour included.
Buildings built before roughly 2005 are disproportionately pinned to the Kwikset KW1 keyway — cheap to rekey but low pick resistance. Lougheed and Brentwood corridor buildings post-2010 are more likely to use Schlage C-keyway or a proprietary restricted keyway specified by the developer. If you're a strata council taking over from a previous management company and you don't know what keyway is in the building, the first step is an on-site assessment — we identify the hardware, quote the rekey, and carry out the work in one visit for buildings under 30 units. Larger buildings require scheduling with the building manager for access coordination.
We hold BC Security Worker Licence E106677. Strata corporations and property management companies can request the licence number for their records before booking. We do not subcontract rekey jobs — the licensed technician who takes the call does the work.
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Real questions from real Burnaby strata managers and Metrotown condo residents.
Yes. Most buildings immediately around Metropolis at Metrotown were built between 1989 and 2010 and are on older Kwikset or Schlage C-keyway hardware. We carry both in the van. For full-floor or full-building rekeys in that precinct we ask for a building contact to be available for suite access. Per-cylinder pricing starts at $35 for standard residential cylinders.
SFU's campus on Burnaby Mountain is a genuine outlier — the single road up (Gaglardi Way) adds 10 to 15 minutes on top of whatever the drive time is to the base of the mountain. From downtown Vancouver, realistically 45 to 55 minutes in normal traffic. From Metrotown, closer to 30 to 40 minutes. We'll tell you the honest estimate when you call, not a marketing number.
For a single suite in the Brentwood area, plan on $40 to $55 per cylinder for a standard rekey, plus a service call fee. If it's an after-hours call the service call fee is higher. Buildings with controlled elevator access that require a contact to be present may add time to the visit. A typical one-bedroom suite with one deadbolt and one knob or lever comes out to $110 to $140 all-in during business hours.
Intercom panels and building-wide fob systems fall under low-voltage access-control work, not traditional locksmithing. We don't program fobs or repair intercom hardware — that work goes to the building's access-control contractor, usually specified by the strata council. What we handle is the keyed hardware inside: suite locks, deadbolts, mailbox locks, and storage-locker padlocks.
BC Security Worker Licence E106677 covers residential and commercial locksmith work province-wide, including university and institutional buildings. For SFU faculty housing or university facilities, the on-site contact will typically need to verify the licence before we start — the number is on every invoice and we can provide it verbally when you call. Institutional buildings sometimes require a security escort; that's the client's responsibility to arrange.
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