Lock Rekeying in Cupertino
$29 to $47 per cylinder. The lock stays on the door and takes new pins, which retires every key handed out before today. Front door, atrium gate and garage service door on one key. The second cylinder costs less than the first because the van is already at your curb.
$29–$47 per cylinder
Typical price
17 min
Avg. arrival
24/7
Availability
Rekeying is the cheapest useful thing anyone does to a door. The lock stays where it is and receives a new set of bottom pins, so it answers a new key and stops answering every key handed out before today. The hardware does not change. The finish does not change. Only who can open the door changes.
Cupertino needs this more than most cities its size, because nearly two homes in five here are rented and keys change hands constantly. A house turns over between tenants. A family buys for the school boundary and moves in without a thought about the locks, which is normal and is exactly when to think about them. A contractor finishes a kitchen and the key that was left under a pot has been under a pot for four months. None of that is drama. It is just an unknown number of keys, and a repin sets that number back to the ones you are holding.
The original brass on these houses is usually worth keeping. A Kwikset or Schlage cylinder from a Rancho Rinconada front door can nearly always be repinned on the van bench in the time it takes to make coffee, and it will outlast most of what would replace it. Front door, back door, garage service door and the gate can all come onto one blade where the keyways permit, which is where most households find the real relief: one key on the ring instead of four, and no more sorting through them in the dark. A padlock on a side gate usually joins the same key.
Rekeying is $29 to $47 per cylinder, with the $89 visit inside the total for the stop rather than charged per lock. Four cylinders on one visit is a short hour. There is one honest limit worth saying out loud: a plug that has worn out of round, which most often happens on an outdoor gate cylinder that has taken twenty summers and twenty winters, cannot be repinned usefully. New pins in a worn plug give you a lock that binds on a brand new key. When that is what is on your gate you hear it at the bench, with a replacement priced against the published $129 to $339 rather than folded in quietly.
The old keys are tried in each lock in front of you and seen to fail. That, rather than the receipt, is the proof.
“We bought the house for the school and thought about the locks roughly never until the week we moved in. Five cylinders, front, back, side gate, garage service door and the shed, at $31 each with the $89 visit inside the total, $244. All five on one key. He kept the old brass on the front because he said what was in it was better made than what he could sell me, and just repinned it. Old keys came back in a labeled bag so I could count them against what the agent handed over.”
All sixteen jobs are printed here, fourteen with ranges and two quoted once the doors have been counted on site. What moves a figure inside its range is the door, not the lock: a leaf that still hangs true takes the low end, a leaf that has dropped on its hinges or carries a narrower old bore takes the high one. Describe the door on the call and the range closes to one figure.
- Daytime (7am–8pm)standard rates
- Evening (8pm–12am)+$55
- Overnight (12am–7am)+$95
FAQ
Lock Rekeying: quick answers
We just closed on the house. Rekey or replace?+
Repin, in almost every case. It retires every key held by the previous owner, the agent, the gardener and whoever else collected one over the years, and it costs a fraction of new hardware. Replacement is for a lock that has actually failed, not for a lock that merely has a history.
How many locks can be done on one visit?+
As many as the property has. The $89 visit is counted once for the stop and each cylinder is $29 to $47, so the second, third and fourth doors are the inexpensive part. Four exterior doors onto one key is usually inside an hour.
I manage a rental here. Can this be booked for turnover day?+
Yes, and most owners in this city do exactly that. The visit lands after the cleaners, every exterior door on the unit comes onto a fresh key, and you get two keys plus one for your own ring. The receipt lists each door under the address, which is the shape a turnover file wants.
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Say the year the house was built, and the rest of the call is short
Cupertino and the west valley, every hour of the day. The age of the door decides the work and the work decides the figure, so the number comes back on the call with the $89 service call and the hour already inside it, and it is the number on the receipt. Ninety days on the labor, in writing.