Smart deadbolt swaps across the city, from suite doors in the Metrotown and Brentwood towers to detached houses on Capitol Hill and Government Road. We fit the lock, square up the door if it needs it, program the codes, and confirm the key override works before packing up.
Most smart lock work in Burnaby is on suite doors. Burnaby's towers sit on the SkyTrain: Metrotown on the Expo Line, The Amazing Brentwood and the Willingdon and Beta Avenue builds on the Millennium Line, City of Lougheed at the North Road end. Each raises its own strata question. The rest is houses, from Burnaby Heights bungalows to the larger lots around Deer Lake, South Slope and Government Road, where the obstacle is the door rather than the lock.
A smart deadbolt on your suite door does not replace your building fob, and we do not touch the systems behind it. Burnaby's newest towers already carry a building keypad or fob reader on the suite door itself, which catches people out: they assume the two have to become one device. They do not. The cylinder in the door is yours to change, the credential on the wall beside it stays the building's, and your lobby fob keeps working exactly as it did before we arrived.
Ask your council one narrow question: may I replace the suite deadbolt with a battery-powered smart deadbolt that uses the existing door prep? Put that way the answer is usually yes, because the door, the frame and the building's wiring are all left alone. Schlage Encode, Yale Assure and August Pro fit that description. Councils object to anything that alters the exterior face of the door, anything needing a hole drilled for power, and anything that breaks a key hierarchy. If a manager's key opens every suite, say so on the phone.
We measure before ordering. Most post-war Burnaby doors carry the standard prep with a 2-1/8" bore, which is what off-the-shelf smart deadbolts are built for. Pre-1950s houses in Burnaby Heights, on Ingleton Avenue and the streets off Pender Street, often run mortise lock bodies that predate standardised cylinder prep, as do the oldest Edmonds blocks near the New Westminster border around Stride Avenue. A mortise door is not a refusal, just different hardware. Forcing a modern deadbolt into a prep it was never cut for is a security problem, not a fix.
A smart deadbolt throws its bolt with a small motor. If yours only seats when you lift the handle, that motor fights the misalignment until it quits, and in Burnaby the cause is nearly always movement. Foundation shift shows up in the post-war houses south of Hastings Street. Capitol Hill adds seasonal wood movement on the slope, older Edmonds homes sit on settled soil, and South Slope houses move with the hillside. We correct the strike plate or the latch first. A cylinder that turns only at a precise lift angle is worn past pinning and gets replaced, not nursed.
Offline, no app, roughly 12-18 months on AA batteries, and a code you reset in a minute. The right answer where the router is nowhere near the entry: Government Road's long driveways, Buckingham Heights, and the upper Capitol Hill streets.
Remote locking, entry alerts, and temporary codes you can expire from your phone. Rebar is hostile to signal between floors, but a Metrotown or Brentwood suite is compact and the router sits metres from the entry.
Auto-unlock as you walk up, and lower battery drain. Remote features need a hub near the door, which suits the townhome stratas around Lougheed, Highgate and Cariboo.
Townhomes through Lougheed, Highgate, Cariboo and South Slope rarely have one lock. Front entry, patio slider or rear deadbolt, often a garage side door: two to three cylinders per unit is normal. Smart-locking all of them is rarely the right spend. Put the smart deadbolt on the front door and key the rest alike to its override.
That override keyway matters. Buildings from before roughly 2005 are mostly pinned to Kwikset KW1, while newer Lougheed and Brentwood corridor buildings run the Schlage C keyway, some on a restricted profile. We carry KW1 and SC1 blanks and cut keys in the van. On new infill and laneway builds through Willingdon Heights, pin the override fresh on day one: the builder's key has been in every trade's pocket.
Whether a tenant may fit one at all is a landlord question before it is a hardware question, and the rules sit on our lock change and rekey page. Get the answer in writing, whether it is a basement suite in Edmonds or a student rental off Gaglardi Way. Landlords gain from the other side: a keypad turns tenant turnover into a code reset rather than a call-out, which matters on Burnaby Mountain where it follows the academic calendar. SFU runs its own facilities team, so our work there is privately owned UniverCity stratas and off-campus rentals.
One price covers all of it:
What you pay turns on whether we supply the hardware and whether the door needs work first. Your number is confirmed before we book.
| Job type | Typical range |
|---|---|
| Fit a smart lock you already own (deadbolt swap) | $80 – $130 |
| Mid-range keypad deadbolt, supplied and installed | $220 – $320 |
| Wi-Fi smart deadbolt (Yale, Schlage or equivalent), supplied and installed | $300 – $450 |
| Premium smart deadbolt with HomeKit or Matter, supplied and installed | $400 – $600 |
| Door prep: bore adjustment or strike plate reinforcement | $60 – $120 add-on |
| Two or more locks at one Burnaby address | Bundle price on request |
Strata work across multiple suites is priced per cylinder after a walkthrough.
In Brentwood and Metrotown, the visitor parking level decides which elevator bank the technician uses instead of leaving the van circling a parkade. Controlled elevator access needs a building contact to meet us.
We measure bore and backset and inspect the strike plate before the new lock leaves the van, so a settled door gets corrected rather than ignored.
A straight swap runs 45-60 minutes, or about 90 if the frame needs correcting. You keep two cut keys for the override.
A smart lock goes in on a booked slot rather than a scramble, so the number that matters is how long we are at your door, not how fast we reach it. Allow about an hour for a straight swap onto an existing deadbolt prep, and nearer ninety minutes where the door needs a fresh bore, the strike moved, or a second reader paired to the same unit. Towers spend that extra time at the front of the visit instead of the back, which is why we ask for the visitor stall level and a building contact when the slot is set. On Burnaby Mountain we will offer you a slot beside another UniverCity job where one exists, because the road up is the expensive part of that trip.
Towers, townhomes and detached houses, from Capitol Hill down to the Big Bend.
Same licensed technician, same van, same phone number.