Lock Rekeying in Charlotte, NC
Keep the locks you have. Change which key opens them. The cheapest way to take back control of your doors after a move, a lost key, or a departure.
When Rekeying Is the Right Call
Rekeying serves Charlotte homes and businesses across 40+ surrounding communities.
You Just Moved In
Previous owners, agents, cleaners, and contractors may still hold keys. One visit makes every copy useless.
A Key Is Lost or Stolen
If you don't know where a key ended up, assume the worst and make it worthless.
A Roommate or Ex Moved Out
Getting the key back proves nothing about the copies. Rekeying does.
An Employee Left
For businesses, rekeying the affected doors beats changing locks in both speed and cost.
Tenant Turnover
Landlords: we rekey between tenants on your schedule, and can set up recurring service across your units.
One Key for Everything
We can rekey several locks to match a single key, so one key runs the front door, back door, and garage.
What Rekeying Actually Is
A lock is a row of small pins that match one key's cuts. Rekeying means we open the lock, swap those pins, and cut new keys to match. The lock itself stays on your door: same handle, same deadbolt, same finish. Every old key stops working the moment we're done.
Because we reuse your hardware, rekeying costs noticeably less than replacing locks. We published our typical Charlotte price ranges so you can check before you call. You get a firm quote before we start, and the visit usually covers every door in the house in one go.
Replacement still makes sense when a lock is worn out, damaged, or too cheap to trust. If that's what we find on your door, we'll say so and show you options. Nobody here gets paid extra for talking you into new hardware you don't need.
How the Visit Goes
You call or send the form, and we ask how many doors and what kind of locks. You get a quote up front. The technician arrives in a marked vehicle, verifies you have the right to change the locks (owners show ID, renters bring the landlord's go-ahead), rekeys each cylinder on the spot, cuts your new keys, and tests every door with you before leaving. Most single-home visits are done the same day you call. Just moved? Our guide to rekeying after a move walks through the whole checklist, and business owners dealing with a departure should read what to do when an employee leaves with a key.
Rekey Work From the Past Three Months
Between late May and late August, rekeying was on the ticket for 33 of our visits. The bigger jobs read like moving season: seven locks rekeyed at a house on Glen Abbey Circle in Stanley, four on Bluestar Lane in Charlotte with two spare keys cut before we left, and four more rekeyed and adjusted on East 16th Street. Smaller calls came from Belmont, Denver, and Fort Mill: two cylinders here, a rekey with a key copy there.
Some addresses call twice. A house on Caribou Drive in Statesville had five locks rekeyed in late May and found more work for us before the summer was out. On Symphony Woods Drive we rekeyed a smart lock in July; smart locks show up in the log more and more, and most keep a standard key cylinder behind the keypad that takes new pins like any other.
Rekeying and replacement often share a ticket. On Waterton Court in Huntersville two locks got new pins and the other two came off the door for replacement. Businesses run through the same log: in July a discount store in Concord had its exit device rekeyed. That side of the work lives on our commercial locksmith page.
Rekeying Questions
Yes, usually by a wide margin. Rekeying reuses your existing hardware and only changes the pins inside, so you pay for the work, not for new locks. You'll have the exact price before we start.
Most standard residential and commercial locks, yes. A lock that's worn, damaged, or bottom-of-the-barrel quality may be worth replacing instead, and we'll tell you which is which on the spot.
Yes, if the locks take the same key type. It's called keying alike, and it's one of the most popular requests during a move-in rekey.
We think so. There is no way to know how many copies of the old key exist. Rekeying on move-in day closes that question for good.
With the landlord's or property manager's authorization, yes. We ask for it before we start, then do the work the same way we would for an owner.
Usually, yes. Most smart locks take a backup key, and that cylinder can be rekeyed the same way a plain deadbolt can. This summer's job log has more than one smart-lock rekey in it. A model with no key slot has nothing to rekey; access changes through its codes instead.
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Fully licensed and insured for residential and commercial work.
Upfront Pricing
Clear quote before we start. No surprises.
170+ Five-Star Reviews
Real customers across Charlotte and surrounding areas.
40+ Cities Served
Charlotte, Matthews, Gastonia, Concord, Rock Hill and more.
From Recent Rekey Customers
"Excellent work rekeying my house that we just moved into. Very informative and thorough during the job. Great communication and transparency. Thank you!"
"This company I have seen two times in two days and the responsiveness has been unmatched, I needed them to switch out my locks in the front door for the house I am leaving. They came out so quickly and I appreciate that. Also, the first day, he the technician came out and I didn’t have everything I needed and the tech waited for me as my daughter went to the store I’m grateful. The second day a tech came out to the new location to switch out my door locks I again didn’t have all the screws and he had some in his car again grateful. They are super efficient within the hour."
Related: our residential locksmith services, commercial locksmith services, and master key systems for buildings where one key should open many doors.