Home Rekeying in Oakville
We carry out home rekeying & lock changes for homes across Oakville, from Bronte, Kerr Village and Old Oakville through to Palermo. New home, lost key or a tenancy change — existing locks re-pinned to a new key at a fraction of replacement cost.
Heritage homes in Old Oakville and Bronte with original or period-sympathetic hardware, executive housing through Joshua Creek and Glen Abbey, and low-rise condo along Lakeshore. Knowing the housing stock matters: the right hardware for a 1960s side entrance in Bronte is not the right hardware for a post-2010 build, and fitting the wrong one wastes your money.
Old Oakville's heritage properties demand a different approach: the visible hardware often has to remain period-correct while the actual security has to be modern, which means working the upgrade into the door edge and frame rather than the face. Restoring a century-old mortise lock body and fitting a modern high-security cylinder into it satisfies both. The Winston Park offices are conventional commercial work, and the Lakeshore retail storefronts are almost uniformly narrow-stile aluminium on Adams Rite hardware.
We quote before dispatching to Oakville, not after arriving. The figure you are given on the phone is the figure on the invoice, barring something we could not have known about.
Typical range: $35–$120 CAD per cylinder, plus service call. Ranges are typical for the GTA and depend on the door, the hardware and the time of day. We confirm the price before dispatching.
Where we work in Oakville
We cover the whole municipality for home rekeying & lock changes, including Bronte, Kerr Village, Old Oakville, Glen Abbey, River Oaks, Joshua Creek, Clearview and Palermo — across the L6H, L6J, L6K, L6L and L6M postal areas. The main corridors we work are Lakeshore Road, Kerr Street, Trafalgar Road, Dundas Street, Winston Park (Winston Churchill & QEW) and Speers Road.
Rekey on possession, always
This is the one piece of advice we give unprompted. Whatever assurances came with the sale, keys accumulate over years and nobody tracks them. The cost of rekeying is small and the certainty is complete.
It matters more on newer builds than people expect. Builders routinely key an entire phase to a small number of profiles so trades can move between houses, and that construction keying is frequently still in place at closing. In fast-built areas like Milton, Mount Pleasant and Vellore Village this is common.
Getting to one key
Most homes accumulate different keys for the front door, the back door, the side door, the garage and the shed. There is no reason for that.
Where the locks share a keyway, keying them alike is straightforward and inexpensive. Where they do not, swapping cylinders to a common keyway achieves the same result without replacing the locksets.
When replacement is better
- The lock is worn enough that the key drags or has to be jiggled
- It is a builder-grade lockset on an exterior door, where the grade is genuinely inadequate
- The finish is damaged or the lockset is loose in the door
- You want smart lock functionality, which rekeying obviously cannot provide
- You are rekeying because keys were copied without your knowledge, in which case the open keyway is the actual problem and a restricted cylinder is the fix
This page covers home rekeying & lock changes specifically in Oakville. For the full technical detail — every option, every fault mode and the complete FAQ — see our main home rekeying & lock changes page.
Home Rekeying in Oakville — questions
Do you cover all of Oakville?
Yes — the whole municipality, including Bronte, Kerr Village, Old Oakville, Glen Abbey and River Oaks, across the L6H, L6J, L6K and L6L postal areas and the rest. We also cover the surrounding Halton Region area and the neighbouring municipalities, so a job that sits on a boundary is not a problem.
How quickly can you get to Oakville?
It depends on the time of day, where in Oakville you are, and what is already in progress. We give you a realistic window when you call rather than an optimistic one, and we would rather tell you ninety minutes and arrive in seventy. For non-urgent work we will usually offer you a scheduled slot, which is cheaper than an emergency callout.
How much does it cost to rekey a house?
It is charged per cylinder plus the service call, so a typical home with three to five exterior locks is modest. Keying them all alike so you carry one key is normally included rather than extra. We quote the total on the phone once you tell us how many doors.
How long does rekeying take?
Roughly ten to fifteen minutes per cylinder, so a typical house is done well within an hour including testing every door with the new key.
Can all my house locks use the same key?
Yes in almost every case. If the locks share a keyway it is straightforward. If they are different brands, cylinders can usually be swapped to a common keyway at modest cost, which is still far cheaper than replacing the locksets. Front, back, side, garage and shed on one key is a normal request.