Surrey does not have one kind of garage. In a City Centre tower the ramp and its readers belong to the building, so that side of it is arranged through the property manager rather than booked by a resident. On a Panorama Ridge or Sullivan house it is an attached garage under a suited home, which means two key systems that should not meet. Out past 264th Street it is a workshop, a barn and a gate on the lane. We fit and rekey garage door locks across all of it: side-door deadbolts, T-handles, slide bolts, keypad entries and the connecting door into the house.
The first question on the phone is what sort of garage it is, because across Surrey that settles both the job and whether there is one. A tower parkade belongs to the strata. An attached garage under a suited house is two key systems at once. A townhome side door has strata bylaws to read before anything is ordered.
Hardware rides on the truck: Grade 1 and Grade 2 deadbolts, keyed T-handles, slide bolts, keypad deadbolts, Kwikset and Schlage cylinders, and the machine to cut keys to them. Which of it comes off the truck is decided by the door. Panorama Ridge and Sullivan run to two-storey detached houses with the garage attached, so the lock that matters most is the connecting door into the hallway, and a good share of those were built with a knob that latches and does not key. Clayton Heights, Fleetwood and Walnut Grove run to townhome strata, where the garage side door is one of several cylinders on the unit and the complex may have something to say about what goes on it. Panorama Ridge also carries detached garages that never had more than a padlock or an older mortise lock.
| Garage lock job | Typical range |
|---|---|
| Slide bolt or cane bolt on a manual overhead door, supplied and fitted | $40–$90 |
| Garage entry door rekeyed to the house key you already carry | $30–$80 |
| T-handle lock for a manual overhead door, supplied and fitted | $60–$140 |
| Deadbolt on the garage side door | $90–$180 |
| Deadbolt on the connecting door into the house | $90–$170 |
| Smart lock on a garage side door | $180–$400 |
Every band above covers the part and the labour, and the whole figure is quoted on the phone before a truck is dispatched, so you hear the number before anyone sets off. Which corner of the coverage zone you are calling from does not change the rate, and the far end of it carries no distance surcharge. What lifts a job up its band is the door rather than the address. A metal-clad side door does it. So does an indoor connecting door that was never bored for a cylinder at all, and so does an older mortise or euro-profile lock that needs a replacement ordered in. Ask for the set rather than the lock if you want one key. A keyed-alike job on a South Surrey detached house usually runs three to five cylinders, and doing four of them leaves you carrying two keys anyway.
Name the opening: the overhead door itself, the side door beside it, or the one that leads indoors. Then say how many of them you want opening on a single key, because the quote is built from that number and not from the first lock you mention. The brand stamped on the lock face tells us more than the door does.
Inside a strata complex, give the complex name: in Clayton Heights the first thing to confirm is whether your bylaws set a lock grade or bar hardware that alters the face of the door. South Surrey councils generally want written notice before anything goes on. If there is a suite downstairs, say so when you book, because that changes the keying rather than the hardware.
Blanks are cut on the van, and where the keyway allows it the new cylinder is pinned to whatever key you already carry. Then every key cut on the job gets tried in every cylinder it is meant to open, with the bolt thrown against the strike and the door shut.
Panorama Ridge was built out through the 1980s and 1990s on one dominant form: a two-storey detached house on a conventional lot, attached garage, very often a suite below. Secondary suites are built into the fabric of that neighbourhood, and the suite entrance is commonly on a different key from the main floor already. So the whole-property key-alike is the wrong ask on a lot of these houses. What works instead is two sets that never touch. The owner's key covers the front, the back, the garage handle and the connecting door into the hallway. The suite entry keeps its own key with no master pinned across the two, which means nothing the tenant carries reaches the garage, and the suite can be rekeyed at the end of a tenancy without a single one of your locks being opened up.
Sullivan arrived later, on the suburban boom of the late 1990s and 2000s, in the same house shape on a flatter grid: 68th through 76th Avenues crossed by 148th to 156th Streets, detached with an attached garage. Those streets also produce the home-office call: a room that takes clients on site, which wants secure hardware on an interior door as well as on the exterior ones. The other Panorama Ridge complication is the detached garage still running a padlock or an older mortise lock. Those will not join a key set by being rekeyed, because the houses around them are on Kwikset and Schlage keyways and the old garage hardware is not. Bringing it in means changing the cylinder, not the key.
Clayton Heights went up mostly after 2005 as multi-phase townhome strata, and the deadbolts came from the developer: Kwikset or Schlage, and in plenty of complexes a Grade 3, which is the residential entry-level rating. Moving that to a Grade 1 or Grade 2 ANSI-rated deadbolt takes minutes and does more for kick-in resistance than anything else you can do to that door. Most of the newer doors there sit on standard US 161 prep, so the swap is a drop-in. Read the bylaws before anything is ordered, because that is where a grade requirement or a restriction on the look of the door would be written.
Fleetwood and Sullivan townhome doors are typically 60mm or 70mm backset prep, which is what the Yale, Schlage and August keypad deadbolts on the van are built for. Walnut Grove gets measured rather than assumed: the complexes on Walnut Grove Drive, 202A Street and the crescents behind Hyland Elementary carry frames whose clearances run tight and whose backsets are not the number the packaging assumes, and the builder hardware across that neighbourhood is now well past its first decade of daily use. The Fleetwood version of this call is often not about security at all. Residents there are carrying a garage fob, a mailbox key and a front-door key, and the bundle itself is what causes the lockout. The fob cannot join a key set, since it runs on the building's own system, but the front entry, the rear door and the garage side door can all come onto one.
Two of Surrey's busiest neighbourhoods have almost no private garage in them. City Centre is high-rise strata, much of it concrete put up after 2010, with older wood-frame rentals along 96 and 100 Avenue, and Guildford stacks condos and townhome rows around its town centre. The ramp, the parkade door, the readers and the intercom panel are one access-control system owned by the building, so a resident cannot book work on it. Where a strata or property manager does bring us in on common-area hardware, we coordinate with them and document the work for the strata's records. We are in the Guildford Town Centre parkade often enough, but for cars rather than gates. Where Guildford does have a garage door of your own is the east side, around 160 Street and the Hyland Creek greenbelt, where the detached houses and duplexes are still on the deadbolts they were built with. A Grade 1 upgrade or a keypad deadbolt is the usual answer on those.
Aldergrove is where the word garage stops covering it. Hobby acreages and blueberry farms sit a short walk from the Fraser Highway shops, and a property out there routinely has a house, a garage, a workshop or barn, and a gate on the lane, each with its own lock and none of them matched. The job that suits a property like that is the audit: every exterior lock on the property counted, then rekeyed to a single key or a master arrangement, with the keys cut on site the same day. The older houses between 264th and 272nd get checked before anything is ordered, since decades of Fraser Valley winters have shifted the frames and tired the cylinders, and the van carries mortise and euro-profile cylinders for preps that will not take a current deadbolt. The newer infill townhomes off Fraser Highway are ordinary ANSI/BHMA preps by comparison. Anything going on a gate or an outbuilding has to suit outdoor BC conditions, which rules out a fair share of the keypad units.
Port Kells is the industrial version of the same shape. The depots and freight yards along 192nd Street run commercial-grade padlocks on secured yard gates. The residential strip bordering the historic Port Kells community is older detached houses and small acreage, and their doors are frequently solid-core, still wearing the hardware they were fitted with fifteen years ago. Where that turns out to be an uncommon profile, the replacement has to be ordered in, which is the whole difference between one visit and two. Reading the brand off the lock face when you book is what avoids the second one.
Two trades meet at the same opening, and it is worth knowing which one you are booking. Cylinders, keys, keying, T-handles, side-door deadbolts and the door into the house are lock work, which is this page. Tracks, rollers, cables, springs and panels are the mechanical half, priced on the garage door repair page. The motor and the remotes that talk to it are a third thing again, on the garage door opener repair page. A frame that has moved so far that nothing latches has become door repair. One number reaches all four, so an uncertain description still gets sorted before a van moves.
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