Rekey Locks in San Anselmo - One Flat Price Per Lock, Agreed Up Front

Fast, Reliable Rekey Locks Across San Anselmo

When a tenant moves out of a rental on Ross Avenue, or you lose a house key somewhere between Creek Park and the San Anselmo Coffee Roasters, you need the locks changed the same day, and that’s what we do. A rekey service in San Anselmo typically costs $85 – $180 for a standard knob or deadbolt, including the service call and a fresh set of keys, and most single-lock jobs are finished in under 45 minutes once our tech arrives. We’re the Ridley Locksmith & Security team, part of the Garrison Partners family, and we serve the entire San Anselmo area with background-checked, uniformed technicians. Call (956) 275-7388 for a written price before anyone is dispatched.

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Why Ridley Locksmith & Security Is San Anselmo’s Preferred Rekey Locks Company

Homeowners and business operators between Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Butterfield Road have learned something about us that sets us apart from the bait-pricing independents and fly-by-night call centers: we put the price in writing before a single tool comes off the truck. That’s the Garrison Standard, and it’s how we’ve operated since 2007. Not an estimate that moves when the tech sees your door. A written price. If the invoice doesn’t match, you don’t pay the difference.

We know San Anselmo’s housing stock in a way an out-of-town crew never will. Our techs have rekeyed original mortise locks in pre-1960 bungalows near the downtown flats, matched new deadbolts to vintage knobs on homes climbing the hills toward Sleepy Hollow, and reset master key systems for small commercial spaces along the Red Hill Shopping Center corridor. When you call, a live person answers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Not a voicemail. Not a call center in another state. A person who can dispatch a uniformed, background-checked tech to your San Anselmo door.

Keyed Alike in San Anselmo

Keyed alike in San Anselmo means taking two or more locks with different keys and re-pinning them so one key operates every lock, and it’s the single most common request we get from homeowners who have just moved into a house where the front knob, back door, and side gate each had their own key. If your locks are all the same brand and share the same keyway, we can usually key them alike in one visit, and in San Anselmo the job typically runs $15 – $25 per additional cylinder beyond the first rekey. The first cylinder costs the standard rekey rate; every additional keyed-alike cylinder is a fraction of that. You get a written price covering the exact number of locks before we start.

When a single key makes sense

Homes split between the flatlands near Memorial Park and the steeper streets up toward the San Anselmo hills often have mismatched hardware from decades of incremental replacement. A Schlage deadbolt on the front, a Kwikset knob on the side door, and an older Baldwin entry lockset on the back. We see this constantly. If the keyways differ between brands, keying alike can require swapping one or two cylinders, and we’ll tell you that on the phone before scheduling. You’ll know what the parts cost and what the labor costs, in writing, before we arrive.

Rentals and move-in rekeys

Landlords in the rental-heavy neighborhoods around Red Hill and the flats near downtown call us between every tenant turnover. It’s not distrust, it’s basic security. You don’t know how many copies of the old key are floating around. We can rekey every exterior lock and key them alike to a single new key in one visit, usually the same day you call. The old keys stop working the moment the new pins go in. You get every key on one ring, and your tenant gets a property they know no one else has a key to.

Rekey Deadbolt in San Anselmo

Rekey deadbolt work in San Anselmo involves removing the cylinder from the deadbolt, replacing the internal pins so the old key no longer turns, and cutting new keys to match, and it’s a job we handle routinely on both standard modern deadbolts and older units installed on the town’s mid-century homes. A standard single-cylinder deadbolt rekey in San Anselmo runs $85 – $130, including new keys and the service call. A double-cylinder deadbolt, the kind the fire code sometimes requires when there’s glass within 40 inches of the lock, runs slightly higher because it has two cylinders to re-pin. Every job gets a written price first, and the work carries a full one-year guarantee under our 365-Day Done Right Promise.

What happens when we rekey a deadbolt

Our tech removes the cylinder, disassembles it, replaces the old pins with new ones cut to a fresh key, and reassembles everything on-site. The lock body stays in the door. If the deadbolt itself is failing, not just the key, we’ll show you what we’re seeing and give you a separate written price for a replacement before any additional work happens. That’s the Garrison Standard. You’re not getting a surprise upsell at the door, and you’re not paying for a deadbolt replacement when a $95 rekey is all the lock needed.

Mortise locks and older deadbolts

A lot of San Anselmo’s pre-1960 homes still have the original mortise lock bodies in the door, even if a modern deadbolt was added above them years later. Rekeying those means fitting modern pin and tumbler cylinders into vintage hardware rather than swapping the whole lockset. It goes faster when the existing cylinder has a standard diameter. Ours usually do. If someone before us installed an oddball cylinder or the bore has been drilled out, we’ll tell you before touching anything and give you a written price for the right fix.

Trusted Brands We Service in San Anselmo

Our techs rekey and repair hardware from Schlage, Kwikset, Medeco, and Yale, and we’re certified to work on high-security lines including Medeco and Abloy. We stock common pins, cylinders, and tailpieces for standard residential brands in our service vans, which means most San Anselmo rekey jobs are done on one visit without ordering parts. That matters when you’re standing at a door that won’t lock and you want it secure before tonight. For high-security hardware, we’ll give you a written price up front that includes any specialized pins or keys, so there’s no mystery line item when the job is done.

Common Rekey Locks Problems We See in San Anselmo Homes

• Teaser quotes that only cover one cylinder. A homeowner calls on a lowball $29 advertised rekey, then the tech arrives, sees a mortise lock plus a deadbolt, and suddenly it’s $240. We see the invoice after the fact all the time. That’s why we give a written price covering every lock before we dispatch.
• Non-standard mortise cylinder bores. Older San Anselmo mortise locks sometimes have cylinder openings that have been reamed or rusted just enough that a lazy rekey leaves the lock body loose or the new key binding instead of turning cleanly. We torque and check everything before we call the job done.
• Destructive drilling instead of a clean rekey. An unscrupulous operator drills a lock that could have been picked open non-destructively, then bills for a full replacement. A rekey should leave the lock intact. If it can be saved, we save it. If it can’t, we show you the lock and explain why.
• Worn keyways from decades of use. Many San Anselmo homes still use the original 1950s and 60s entry hardware, and the keyways are often so worn that a new key fits sloppily. We check for that on every job and tell you if the lock is approaching the end of its life, with a written price for a replacement if you want one.

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We Also Serve Cities Near San Anselmo

Beyond San Anselmo, our Rekey Locks team covers Fairfax, Kentfield, San Rafael, and Larkspur with the same written-price guarantee and one-year workmanship warranty. If you own a rental in Fairfax or run a store in San Rafael, the same background-checked techs who handle Rekey Locks in San Anselmo will be at your door with a written price before work starts.

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