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Fast, Reliable Change Door Locks Across Sunnyvale

Changing your door locks in Sunnyvale typically costs $95 – $220 for a standard deadbolt or knob replacement, and $45 – $85 per cylinder if you’re rekeying instead. Most jobs across Lakewood, Cherry Chase, and Borregas are completed same-day, often within a couple hours of your call. At Dunmore Locksmith, we’ve built our entire approach around the moment you open your door to a stranger, so you’ll always know the technician’s name and face before they arrive. Call (910) 714-4287 for a written quote before anyone is dispatched.

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Why Dunmore Locksmith Is Sunnyvale’s Preferred Change Door Locks Company

Dunmore Locksmith is the Threshold Group member business serving Sunnyvale since 2007, and our name carries weight in this trade. Dunmore comes from old words for a great fort, a stronghold built to keep what is inside safe. That’s the standard Perry Osgood, our owner, applies to every change-lock job we take on in Sunnyvale. Not speed for its own sake, though we’re fast. Certainty.

Every technician we send to a Sunnyvale home is background-checked, identity-verified, and uniformed. Before the visit, you receive their name and photo. At the door, they show a photo ID badge. If someone shows up who you weren’t told to expect, that visit is covered at no charge under the Threshold Standard. That’s not a marketing line. It’s a written policy.

Our phones are answered by a live person 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No voicemail trees, no chatbots. When you call about a stiff deadbolt on a west-facing door in Lakewood at 10 p.m., a human picks up and starts solving the problem.

Every job is covered by the 365-Day Done Right Promise. If the repair fails, we return at no charge for a full year. The price goes in writing before any work starts, and that written figure is the price on the invoice.

Patio Door Lock Change in Sunnyvale

Patio door lock change in Sunnyvale is a job we handle frequently on the older ranch homes in Lakewood, Borregas, and Cherry Chase, where original 1950s and 1960s surface-mount latches are still doing daily duty. A basic patio door lock replacement in Sunnyvale typically runs $110 – $190, and matching the new hardware to your existing keyway adds $45 – $75 per cylinder. The marine layer that pushes in from the northwest means the sliding-door hardware on the back of the house takes the brunt of damp air, and the latch bodies corrode from the inside out while the visible handle still looks fine.

Surface-Mount Latch Replacement

Most mid-century Sunnyvale patio doors predate integrated lock systems. They use a surface-mount latch screwed to the door stile, and after 50-plus years of bay fog, the internal spring and pawl are often seized or broken. We replace these with current Kwikset or Schlage hardware that fits the original footprint but holds up to damp exposure far better than the builder-grade original.

Keyed-Alike Patio Hardware

There’s a mistake we see often on Sunnyvale ranch properties: the front door gets rekeyed after a tenant or contractor, but the patio slider stays on its own orphan key. Then the owner carries two keys and forgets which one fits the back door at night. We correct that by pinning the patio cylinder to the same cut as the front and side doors, so one key operates every exterior entry point on the property.

Door Lock Change in Sunnyvale

Door lock change in Sunnyvale usually means replacing a worn or compromised deadbolt and knob set, and the common range here is $95 – $220 per door depending on whether we’re installing standard pin-tumbler hardware or a keypad or smart-capable deadbolt. On acreage properties around the edges of Sunnyvale, the job often extends beyond the front door. A homeowner calls us to change the house locks, and during the walkthrough we find the detached workshop, side gate, and service door all on mismatched cylinders with separate keys.

Whole-Property Keyed-Alike

Some of our best Sunnyvale jobs start as a simple front-door change and end with one key operating five or six locks across the property. Our tech spent an afternoon on a 1962 ranch off Cherry Chase where the owner wanted his detached workshop, two side-yard gates, and back patio door all keyed alike in a single visit. The workshop deadbolt was a builder-grade Kwikset whose pin and tumbler had rusted solid from west-facing fog exposure, and the patio slider still had its original surface-mount latch. We replaced the workshop cylinder with an ANSI Grade 1 keypad entry set, matched the gate and patio hardware to the same restricted keyway, and left him with one key and one code for everything. He’d been quoted three separate trips by another outfit; we finished in one.

Rekey vs. Replace

If the lock mechanism is sound, rekeying (changing the internal pins so your old keys no longer work) is the cheaper, smarter move. It typically runs $45 – $85 per cylinder and takes about 20 minutes per lock. But when the cylinder has internal corrosion from decades of marine-layer damp, or the bolt no longer throws fully on a warped slab, a full lock change is the honest fix. We’ll tell you which one you need, and we’ll quote the exact figure before we begin.

Trusted Brands We Service in Sunnyvale

We’re factory-authorized to install and service Schlage, Kwikset, Medeco, and Abloy hardware, from residential pin-tumbler deadbolts to high-security restricted-keyway cylinders. For Sunnyvale customers, that means parts are stocked locally and matched to the hardware already on your door, so a change-lock job rarely requires a second trip. If you’re eyeing a smart lock to integrate with HomeKit or Google Home, we can talk you through the Schlage Encode and other options that fit a 1960s ranch door’s bore spacing without leaving the deadbolt short of full throw.

Common Change Door Locks Problems We See in Sunnyvale Homes

• Fog-driven cylinder corrosion on the west and north sides. The marine layer pushes in from the northwest and sits on exterior locks that never get direct afternoon sun. A deadbolt on the back door can seize internally while the visible face still looks presentable.
• Orphan keys for outbuildings and gates. Acreage and large-lot owners in Sunnyvale often key the main house and forget the workshop, detached garage, and yard gates. That leaves a ring of orphan keys and a recurring call to us six months later.
• Sliding patio door latches that fail after decades. Original surface-mount latches on 1950s and 1960s ranch homes are past their service life. The internal spring breaks, the pawl no longer seats, and the door can be forced open from outside.
• Smart lock installs on warped slabs. A 1960s ranch door slab that has settled can throw off the strike alignment enough that a modern deadbolt won’t reach full throw. We check bore spacing and strike alignment before drilling anything, so the new lock actually secures the door.

Pricing for Change Door Locks in Sunnyvale, CA

We Also Serve Cities Near Sunnyvale

Our Change Door Locks team covers more than just Sunnyvale proper. We run regular routes through Sunnyvale and into Mountain View, Santa Clara, Cupertino, and Los Altos, so if you have family or a rental property in a neighboring city, the same background-checked technician can handle both stops in one visit.

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