Rekeying & Key Alike in Altona
New keys, same locks. The standard move after a move-in, a break-up or a lost keyring. Covering Altona 3018 and the surrounding Inner West, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Rekeying & Key Alike for Altona homes and businesses
Rekeying changes the pins inside your existing cylinder so the old keys stop working and a new key takes over. It keeps hardware you already own and it is the right answer whenever the question is "who else has a key?" rather than "is this lock any good?".
Why Altona in particular
The number of doors is the issue rather than any one of them — front, rear, garage side and laundry, historically each on its own key, which is why key-alike is the most requested job in these streets. The interwar californian bungalows and brick homes here have solid timber front doors, often with original hardware that is worth keeping — a rekey and a reinforced strike usually beats replacing a door that has outlasted three owners.
Getting to you
Our vans work out of Richmond, so Altona is a straightforward run at most hours. It sits in the middle of our coverage, and the run is a short one at most hours. We give you a realistic arrival window on the phone rather than a number that sounds good.
Altona 3018 in full: Kororoit Creek Road, Maidstone Street and Millers Road, through to the blocks around Westona and A.H. Ford Reserve.
What the job covers
- Cylinder rekeying on existing hardware
- Key alike across front, back and garage
- Post-move and post-tenancy rekeys
- Lost-keyring response
- Master and sub-master rekeying
- Restricted-key conversion
What it costs
We do not publish prices, because a jammed deadlock on a heritage door in Altona and a spring latch that has swung shut are not the same job and should not carry the same number. Quotes are free, given before we start, and there is no obligation.
Get a free quote — (03) 7303 3713
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Rekeying — what customers say
Illustrative examples — real reviews replace these at launch.
“Just settled on the house and had no idea how many keys were out there. Rekeyed the lot and keyed the front, back and garage to one key.”
“He looked at the cylinders first and told me two were worth rekeying and one was worn out and should be replaced. Straightforward.”
“Lost a whole keyring including the house keys. Rekeyed the same afternoon so I did not have to spend the night worrying about it.”
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Rekeying & Key Alike in Altona — common questions
How quickly can you get to Altona for rekeying & key alike?
30 minutes is the target. Our vans work out of Richmond, so Altona is a straightforward run at most hours. It sits in the middle of our coverage, and the run is a short one at most hours. We give you a realistic arrival window on the phone rather than a number that sounds good.
Rekey or replace — which do I need?
Rekey when the hardware is sound and the problem is key history. Replace when the cylinder is worn or seized, when the door does not meet the security standard you need, or when there is no deadlock at all. We will tell you which one you are looking at before we start.
Can every lock be rekeyed?
Most can. Some budget cylinders are not economically rekeyable and some high-security systems need their own components. We check on site and say so plainly.
I just bought the house. Is rekeying really necessary?
You have no way of knowing how many keys the previous owners cut over the years, or who still has one — trades, cleaners, family, an old tenant. Rekeying resets that to zero. It is the single most common job we do for new owners.