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Fast, Reliable Rekey Locks Across Beverly Hills
Rekeying a lock in Beverly Hills means swapping the internal pins so old keys stop working, no new hardware required. For most homes here, that runs $25 – $45 per cylinder for a standard Schlage or Kwikset, and $45 – $85 per cylinder when the door carries an original mortise lock body from the 1920s or 1930s. We serve the flats, the hills, and everything between Wilshire and Sunset, and you’ll have a written price before a single tool leaves the truck. Call (409) 405-4485 and we’ll walk you through exactly what your doors need.
This page is for Beverly Hills specifically. If you want the full breakdown of how Rekey Locks works across every market we serve, that’s the place to start. Here, we get into what’s different about doing this work in a city where a big share of the housing stock predates World War II.
Why Preston Locksmith & Security Is Beverly Hills’s Preferred Rekey Locks Company
Kevin Yoon founded this company in 2008 on a simple rule: the price you agree to on the phone is the price on the invoice. No dispatch fee added at the door, no “the lock is too old” upcharge after the tech arrives. That matters in Beverly Hills more than most places, because a lot of the locks here are original mortise cylinders that a less-prepared shop might not be ready to repin on site.
Every job in Beverly Hills comes with The Relay Visibility Guarantee. You get a live trackable arrival time, before-and-after photos of the work, and a written guarantee stamped on every repair. If the rekey doesn’t hold up, the second visit is free under our 365-Day Done Right Promise. Phones are answered by a live person 24/7, not a voicemail tree. The technician who shows up is background-checked, uniformed, and the same person whose name and photo you received before dispatch.
We’re trained on Baldwin, Medeco, and Yale cylinders alongside everyday Schlage and Kwikset hardware, so we don’t flinch at a narrow-backset mortise body from 1928. Beverly Hills homes have a lot of those, and we carry the pinning kits to repin them without replacing the hardware.
Rekey Service in Beverly Hills
Rekey Service in Beverly Hills usually means one of two things. In a newer condo or a recently renovated house, it’s a fast cylinder repin, $25 – $45 per lock, done in fifteen minutes. In a Spanish Colonial or Mediterranean rental from the 1920s, it means pulling the mortise cylinder out of the door, repinning it on the truck, and sliding it back in, $45 – $85 per cylinder. Same principle, more bench work. Either way, every old key stops working the moment we finish.
Beverly Hills has a large stock of 1920s – 1930s Spanish Colonial and Mediterranean rentals whose original doors carry narrow-backset mortise lock bodies, so a rekey here often means repinning a mortise cylinder that a big-box hardware store doesn’t stock. The cylinder has to be pulled and pinned on the truck, not swapped for a modern deadbolt. That differs from neighboring West Hollywood and Culver City, where postwar apartments typically take a standard 2-3/8″ pin and tumbler cylinder off the shelf.
When a Beverly Hills homeowner needs it
Just bought a house in the flats or the Trousdale hills and you’re not sure who still has a key? Rekey everything immediately. Same thing after a tenant moves out of a rental near Doheny or a housekeeper or contractor relationship ends. You don’t need new locks. You need the old keys dead.
What the work actually involves
We remove each cylinder, replace the internal pins and springs, cut new keys to match, and test every old key to confirm it no longer turns. On mortise locks, we do this with the cylinder out of the door on our truck bench. On modern deadbolts, it’s done in place. Either way, you keep your existing hardware and finish.
Keyed Alike in Beverly Hills
Keyed Alike in Beverly Hills means every lock on the property works off one key. Front door, back door, garage side door, even the mailbox if it takes a pin-and-tumbler cylinder. For a typical Beverly Hills house with three to five locks, keying them alike runs $15 – $25 per cylinder on top of the rekey cost, so you’re looking at $75 – $225 total depending on whether the hardware is standard or mortise.
Landlords and property managers around the Golden Triangle and the apartment stock south of Wilshire ask for this constantly. One key opens the main entry and the laundry room, but each tenant’s unit key only opens their own door. It’s called a master key system, and we build them on the truck with fresh pinning kits sized for whatever cylinders are in the doors.
For Beverly Hills rental properties
On a Tuesday in the flats south of Wilshire, near the Beverly Hills Civic Center, we rekeyed a 1928 Spanish Colonial four-plex. Three units had original Baldwin mortise lock bodies with narrow backsets and one front door had been retrofitted with a Kwikset keypad entry. We pulled each mortise cylinder, repinned it to a fresh pinning kit, set all four units keyed alike on a single master key system, and verified every old tenant key no longer turned. The landlord got one key for maintenance and separate change keys per unit, no hardware replaced, nothing drilled.
For Beverly Hills homeowners
If you’re tired of carrying a separate key for the front, back, and garage doors, keying alike means you carry one. We’ll confirm which locks can join the system and which, if any, are too worn to hold a reliable pin configuration. Then you get the written price, the keying plan, and a completion window before we start.
Trusted Brands We Service in Beverly Hills
We carry fresh pinning kits for Kwikset, Baldwin, Medeco, and Yale hardware, plus cylinders and springs sized for the mortise bodies common in the city’s older homes. If your Beverly Hills house still has its original Baldwin mortise locks, we don’t recommend ripping them out. We repin them. If you’ve got a Medeco high-security cylinder on a commercial door near Rodeo Drive or a Yale rim cylinder on a mid-century apartment off Santa Monica Boulevard, we service both. Parts are on the truck, not ordered weeks out.
Common Rekey Locks Problems We See in Beverly Hills Homes
- Narrow-backset mortise cylinders on 1920s-1930s doors. These aren’t at Home Depot. We pull the cylinder, repin it on the truck, and reinstall it. If a locksmith tells you the whole lock body has to be replaced, get a second opinion.
- Partial rekeys that leave old keys live. A tech swaps the entry lock but leaves the side door or garage deadbolt on its original key. A former tenant or contractor still has working access. We rekey every lock the old key touched.
- Off-the-shelf pin kits that don’t fit Medeco or Baldwin cylinders. Standard Kwikset pins won’t seat properly in a Baldwin mortise cylinder. That’s how you get a “rekey” that fails within weeks. We carry brand-specific pinning kits.
- Worn cylinders that slip after rekeying. A cylinder that’s had forty years of keys jammed into it may not hold new pins reliably. We’ll tell you before we start if the cylinder is too worn and price a replacement honestly.
Pricing for Rekey Locks in Beverly Hills, CA
A standard rekey in Beverly Hills runs $25 – $45 per cylinder for Schlage or Kwikset hardware. An original mortise cylinder repin runs $45 – $85 per cylinder. Keying multiple locks alike adds $15 – $25 per cylinder. For a typical house with three locks, that’s $75 – $135 for a straight rekey or $120 – $225 keyed alike. The full price is quoted on the phone before anyone is dispatched, and it’s the price on the invoice. No call-out surcharge added on arrival, ever.
What affects the cost is the hardware. Mortise work costs more because it takes longer, not because we’re padding the bill. You’ll know which you have before we quote. Call (409) 405-4485 for an exact figure, free.
We Also Serve Cities Near Beverly Hills
Our Beverly Hills crews cover the surrounding Westside communities just as quickly. If you’re searching for Rekey Locks in Beverly Hills, chances are good we’re already close by. We also handle rekeys and lock work in West Hollywood, Culver City, Santa Monica, and Marina del Rey. Same written pricing, same live arrival tracking, same background-checked technicians.
Serving Beverly Hills, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Beverly Hills area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Rekey Locks in Beverly Hills
Yes, in nearly all cases we can repin the original mortise cylinder. We pull it, repin it with fresh pins sized for Baldwin or Yale cylinders, and reinstall it. The hardware stays. Replacement is only necessary when the lock body itself is broken or the cylinder is too worn to hold pins reliably. Call (409) 405-4485 and describe your door; we’ll tell you what to expect before we dispatch.
For standard Schlage or Kwikset deadbolts, fifteen to twenty minutes per lock. For mortise cylinders, allow thirty to forty-five minutes per door because the cylinder has to be bench-pinned. A three-lock house with original hardware typically takes ninety minutes to two hours total. We’ll give you a completion window when you book, and you can track the technician’s arrival live.
Just know what kind of lock you have. If your door has a modern deadbolt with a large faceplate, that’s standard. If it has a thin rectangular plate and a knob above a keyhole, it’s likely a mortise body. Tell us or text a photo of the edge of the door. We’ll quote the exact price from that, in writing, before anyone is dispatched. Nothing changes on site unless the cylinder is too worn to rekey, and we’ll stop and show you before doing anything if that’s the case.
The technician arrives in uniform with a photo ID, and you receive their name and photo before they arrive. The Relay Visibility Guarantee means you get a live trackable arrival time, so you can watch them approach in real time. If the person at your door doesn’t match the photo you were sent, don’t open it. Call us immediately at (409) 405-4485.
Yes. We build a master key system where one maintenance key opens common areas and each tenant key only opens their own unit. It’s done with a fresh pinning kit on the truck, working with whatever cylinders are already in the doors, including original Baldwin mortise bodies. We’ll map the keying plan on paper so you can see exactly who gets which key before we cut a single one.
Written by Kevin Yoon, Owner at Preston Locksmith & Security.