Home Rekeying Service

Rekeying is a precise mechanical process that our technicians perform on-site, at your door, using professional-grade pinning kits matched to your specific lock brand and cylinder type. The lock itself stays in place — the door, the strike plate, the hardware finish, and the overall security rating of your lock remain completely intact. What changes is the internal pin stack inside the cylinder. Your old key cuts no longer match those pins; your new key does. Every copy made from the old key becomes inoperable the moment the job is complete.

Our team works with the full range of residential hardware found across Hamilton homes, including Schlage, Kwikset, and Baldwin cylinders, as well as the mortise lock systems common in the city's older housing stock. A mortise lock — the type set into a deep rectangular pocket in the door edge rather than bored through the face — requires a slightly more involved rekeying process than a standard cylindrical deadbolt, and our technicians are specifically trained and equipped to handle both. If your home has a mix of door knob locks, deadbolts, and mortise locks across multiple entry points, we can rekey all of them to operate on a single master key during the same visit, a service homeowners moving into older Hamilton properties find particularly valuable.

Full lock replacement makes sense in certain situations — when hardware is damaged, corroded, or when you want to upgrade your security grade. But in the majority of cases where the locks themselves are in good working condition, rekeying accomplishes the same security goal at a fraction of the time and without discarding perfectly functional hardware. This is especially relevant for Hamilton's older neighbourhoods like Durand, Kirkendall, and the North End, where doors often feature high-quality antique mortise lock sets that would be expensive and architecturally disruptive to replace but are entirely serviceable with a fresh cylinder pinning.

Our home rekeying service is also the practical answer after common life events: a recent move, a relationship change, a lost or stolen key, the end of a rental agreement, or any situation where someone who previously had access to your home no longer should. Because we operate 24/7, you don't have to wait until Monday morning to restore your peace of mind after losing your keys on a Friday night near Copps Coliseum or coming home to find your lock tampered with. Call (289) 814-3758 and a trained technician will be dispatched to your location.

Hamilton's housing stock spans more than a century of construction, which means the locks our technicians encounter vary enormously from one street to the next. On newer builds and condos, the standard is typically a cylindrical deadbolt paired with a door knob lock or lever, both of which rekey cleanly and quickly. On older properties — particularly detached homes in Strathcona, the Corktown area, or heritage buildings downtown — the dominant hardware is the mortise lock, a robust multi-function unit that houses both the latch and deadbolt mechanism in a single body mortised into the door edge.

Rekeying a mortise lock cylinder requires removing the cylinder from the mortise body without disturbing the door or the complex linkage inside the lock case. Our technicians carry the tools and replacement pin kits specific to the mortise cylinder profiles most common in Hamilton, so the job is completed on-site without shipping parts or making return visits. Door knob locks present their own quirks — the cylinder is integrated directly into the knob body — and our team handles those with the same precision. Whatever combination of hardware your entry doors carry, we document every lock type before quoting, so the price you agree to up front is the price you pay.

We do not publish flat-rate figures because the honest answer is that the final cost depends on a combination of real variables: the type and number of locks being rekeyed (a single door knob lock versus four mortise lock cylinders plus a deadbolt), the lock brand and cylinder profile (some require proprietary pinning kits), the time of the service call (our 24/7 availability means we respond at 2 a.m. just as readily as at noon, and after-hours calls involve different logistics), and the travel distance to your location within the Hamilton service area. When key cutting for new keys is included, the number of copies also factors in.

What we guarantee is transparency before we begin. Our technician will assess your locks, confirm exactly what the job requires, and provide a firm quote. You decide whether to proceed. There is no pressure, no hidden fee added after the cylinders are open, and no charge for the quote itself. If a lock turns out to be more complex than it appeared — say, an unusual antique mortise lock cylinder that needs a specialty pin set — you will know that before we proceed, not after. We also perform the work damage-free where the lock condition allows, meaning we do not drill, force, or damage functioning hardware to complete a rekey.