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Fast, Reliable Change Door Locks Across Kendale Lakes
Changing door locks in Kendale Lakes usually costs between $95 and $280 per door, depending on whether we rekey the existing hardware or replace the deadbolt outright. Most jobs take under an hour once our tech arrives. If you’ve lost keys, moved into a new place, or had a tenant leave, the fix is straightforward: we either change the internal pins so old keys stop working, or we pull the worn hardware and install fresh deadbolts. Call (910) 714-4287 and a live person answers – day or night – because in this neighborhood, the job is rarely as simple as one lock on one door.
Kendale Lakes homes are different from the newer subdivisions south of Kendall Drive. The houses here were built in the 1970s and 1980s, and many still carry the original entry hardware on secondary doors while their front doors have been upgraded to impact-rated units. That split-era reality is exactly what our Change Door Locks team handles every week. We know the streets, the HOA gate systems, and the way humidity off the Everglades buffer eats through older cylinders.
Why Dunmore Locksmith Is Kendale Lakes’s Preferred Change Door Locks Company
We’ve been called to hundreds of homes in Kendale Lakes, from the tree-lined blocks off SW 147th Avenue to the gated communities along Kendall Drive. The calls usually start the same way: someone just closed on a 1982 CBS ranch, or a landlord needs locks swapped between tenants, or a homeowner found their rear deadbolt seized solid after a summer away. What makes us the choice here is that we tell you, in writing, what the job costs before we touch a screwdriver.
Perry Osgood, who leads our team, built our process around one principle from the start: you should know exactly who is coming to your door before you open it. Every technician is background-checked, identity-verified, and sent to you by name and photo before the visit. They arrive in a clean uniform with a photo ID badge they’ll show at the door. That’s the Threshold Standard, and it’s not an upsell – it’s how we’ve operated since 2007 under the Threshold Group family of local locksmith businesses.
When a Kendale Lakes homeowner calls at 2 a.m. because a lock just failed on a Sunday night, a real person picks up. No voicemail tree, no chatbot. And every job carries our 365-Day Done Right Promise: if the repair fails within a year, we return at no charge and make it right. We put that in writing on every invoice.
Patio Door Lock Change in Kendale Lakes
Patio Door Lock Change in Kendale Lakes typically runs $110 to $220, and it’s one of the most common calls we get from the older tract homes here. Most of these houses have sliding glass patio doors installed during the original buildout, and the original surface-mounted latch hardware is now 40 years old. Salt-tinged humidity and decades of use leave the latch body loose, the hook worn, and the strike plate corroded enough that the door no longer locks cleanly.
Older Sliding Door Hardware
On homes built before 1990 around the SW 137th and SW 147th Avenue corridors, the patio door often still carries its original non-keyed latch. We routinely replace these with keyed locking handles, which gives the homeowner an actual keyed entry point on the rear of the house – something the original builders rarely included. If the door frame is out of square, which happens as CBS slabs settle over five decades, we shim and reset the strike so the new lock actually throws.
Post-Andrew Upgraded Patio Doors
Where homeowners replaced their patio sliders after Hurricane Andrew, the new impact-rated units typically use a different mounting footprint entirely. A universal hardware kit rarely lines up. We carry adapters and brand-specific replacements in the truck so we’re not ordering parts and leaving your rear entrance unsecured overnight.
Door Lock Change in Kendale Lakes
Door Lock Change in Kendale Lakes costs between $95 and $280 per door, and the honest answer is that price depends on one thing: whether the current hardware can be rekeyed or has to be replaced. Rekeying is cheaper. Replacement is needed when the cylinder is too corroded or the internal pins are too worn to hold a new key reliably. We’ll tell you which one applies to each door – not a blanket quote for the whole house.
What Gets Rekeyed
A solid Schlage or Kwikset deadbolt from the 1980s that still turns smoothly can usually be rekeyed in about 15 minutes. We change the internal pins, cut new keys, and your old keys stop working immediately. Rekeying is the right call when the lock is mechanically sound and you just need to control who has access.
What Gets Replaced
When we pull a 45-year-old deadbolt apart and find the springs collapsed and the plug scored, rekeying would be a temporary patch. We replace those with ANSI Grade 1 deadbolts – bump-resistant, drill-resistant, and built for the humidity this neighborhood throws at exterior hardware. The written quote you approve before we start already covers the replacement unit, the labor, and the new keys. No add-ons when the job is done.
Trusted Brands We Service in Kendale Lakes
We stock and service hardware from Kwikset, Yale, Medeco, and Baldwin on our trucks serving Kendale Lakes, which means we’re rarely driving back to the shop for parts. If your front impact door has a Yale multi-point gearbox and your rear door still runs a builder-grade Kwikset, we carry compatible cylinders for both. Medeco high-security cylinders are available for homeowners who want key control that can’t be duplicated at a hardware store. Call (910) 714-4287 and tell us what’s on your door – odds are we have the right cylinder on the truck before we even head your way.
Common Change Door Locks Problems We See in Kendale Lakes Homes
- Corroded original deadbolts on rear and garage doors. The 1970s builder hardware on secondary entries is now 40-plus years old, and the ambient humidity here means the zinc cylinders and steel springs inside have been slowly oxidizing for decades. A rekey on these often fails because the pins won’t seat cleanly anymore.
- Multi-point front door hardware that won’t accept a standard cylinder. Post-Andrew impact doors carry brand-specific gearboxes from Sargent, Yale, or Mul-T-Lock. A generic Schlage cylinder won’t drop in without an adapter, and forcing one can damage the gearbox.
- Warped original door slabs throwing off the strike alignment. On older CBS homes, the original wood door slabs have absorbed decades of humidity and no longer sit flush in the frame. A new deadbolt installs fine but won’t fully throw until the strike plate is relocated.
- HOA gate and common-area keying systems with lost documentation. Many Kendale Lakes subdivisions still run gate intercoms and keypads from the 1980s buildout. When the association’s records are incomplete, we decode the existing hardware and rekey it so the HOA can issue new keys without replacing the whole panel.
Pricing for Change Door Locks in Kendale Lakes, FL
A standard rekey on a single cylinder deadbolt in Kendale Lakes runs $40 to $75 per lock. A full door lock change – removing the old deadbolt and installing a new ANSI Grade 1 unit – typically lands between $95 and $150 per door for standard hardware. Patio door lock changes run $110 to $220 depending on whether we’re working with an original sliding door latch or a post-Andrew impact unit. High-security cylinders from Medeco or Mul-T-Lock cost more, usually $150 to $220 per cylinder, because the key control and drill resistance are in a different class. The price we quote on the phone is the price on the invoice. No dispatch fee, no arrival surcharge, no “we found something else” line. If the scope changes mid-job, we stop and get your approval in writing before going further. Call (910) 714-4287 for an exact quote – estimates are free.
Key Takeaways
- Rekeying costs $40-$75 per lock; full door lock replacement runs $95-$150 per door.
- Patio door lock changes on older Kendale Lakes tract homes run $110-$220.
- Post-Andrew impact doors need brand-specific cylinders – we carry them on the truck.
- 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing on every job; free return visit if it fails.
We Also Serve Cities Near Kendale Lakes
While this page covers Kendale Lakes specifically, our crews also handle lock changes in Miami, Hialeah, Miami Gardens, and Homestead. If you’re just north of the Turnpike or a few blocks off Kendall Drive in one of those cities, the same written pricing and background-checked dispatch applies. See our full Kendale Lakes service area for details.
Serving Kendale Lakes, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Kendale Lakes 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 Change Door Locks in Kendale Lakes
You don’t have to change them all at once, but if you want one key to work every door, the split-era hardware means we often rekey the front door’s existing cylinder and replace the worn rear deadbolts in the same visit. Many Kendale Lakes homeowners do exactly that when they move in: rekey the salvageable lock, replace the corroded ones, and end up with a single key for the whole house. Call (910) 714-4287 and we’ll walk through each door with you.
Sometimes, but less often than homeowners expect. If the deadbolt still turns smoothly and the pins seat cleanly, a rekey takes about 15 minutes. If the cylinder is corroded or the internals are worn – which we see constantly on rear and garage doors in this neighborhood – rekeying won’t hold up. We’ll tell you door by door which ones can be rekeyed and which need replacing, and the written quote reflects that breakdown.
Two reasons. First, the original door slab may have warped over 40-plus years of humidity, so the bore is no longer square and the strike plate sits too high or too low. Second, if your front door is an impact-rated replacement, it may use a multi-point gearbox with a brand-specific cylinder footprint – a generic Schlage or Kwikset deadbolt won’t drop in. We carry adapters and manufacturers’ cylinders to work around both issues.
Yes, and we do it constantly. The original sliding patio doors on 1970s and 1980s Kendale Lakes homes usually came with non-keyed latches that are now worn or corroded. We replace them with keyed locking handles, and if the frame has settled out of square we reset the strike so the new lock throws cleanly. Expect to pay $110 to $220 depending on the hardware.
Yes, this is one of the most common requests we get from new homeowners in Kendale Lakes. We can key match across different brands in most cases – a new Kwikset deadbolt and an existing Schlage cylinder can be pinned to the same key if the cylinder formats are compatible, and where they aren’t, we’ll tell you before we start and give you the option to replace the odd lock out. The goal is one key, every door, no surprises.
Call Dunmore Locksmith for Door Lock Changes in Kendale Lakes
If you need locks changed, rekeyed, or just want to know what’s actually on your doors, call (910) 714-4287. A live person answers 24 hours a day, every day of the year. You’ll get a written price before anyone heads your way, a background-checked technician you’ve been shown by name and photo before the visit, and a 365-day written guarantee on the work. We serve all of Kendale Lakes, including the neighborhoods around SW 147th Avenue, Kendall Drive, and the gated HOA subdivisions throughout the area.
Written by Perry Osgood, Owner at Dunmore Locksmith, serving Kendale Lakes and surrounding Miami-Dade communities since 2007.