Whole-House Lock Change Service in Fruit Cove

We change every outside lock on a house or unit in one visit, and the old keys stop working the moment the new locks go on. New owners call us after closing, landlords call between tenants, and so does anyone who lost a house key or wants the locks changed after a breakup or a break-in. Call (904) 621-6891 with your door count and we’ll set up the visit.

We come to homes, condos and rentals in Fruit Cove, FL 32259 and the neighborhoods right around it. There’s no shop to drive to. Whatever the event was, and whatever hour it happened, we answer the phone and dispatch a van 24/7. Every visit is insured.

One honest thing before you book. If your locks work fine and all you want is the old keys dead, it costs less to rekey the locks instead, and we’ll tell you that on the phone. After a break-in, call any hour and tell us which door was forced.

Five events bring us out for a lock change: closing day on a house, a tenant moving out, a house key that went missing, a breakup, and a break-in. They share one ask. You want the old keys to stop working today, and you want every outside door handled in one trip instead of one lock at a time.

Tenant turnover is routine work here, not a special case. Landlords and property managers around Fruit Cove are regular callers, and a manager can put a whole unit on one booking, every keyed door on it, for a change or a rekey.

Do You Need New Locks or Just New Keys?

If the locks on the house work fine and all you want is for the old keys to stop working, a rekey does that for less, and we say so on the phone. New locks are the answer when the hardware is worn, damaged in a break-in, or you want a deadbolt on every door. The table below matches each situation to the honest answer.

What happened	Honest answer	Why	When
Just closed on a resale	Change or rekey	Change when the hardware is worn or you want a deadbolt on every door. Rekey when the locks are good, and the Lock Rekey page covers that visit.	Closing day, or before move-in
A tenant moved out	Usually a rekey	When the hardware is fine, a rekey is the honest answer. Change the locks when they’re worn or damaged, or when you want every unit on the same hardware.	Between leases, before the new keys go out
Lost a house key	Rekey or change	Rekey if the locks are fine. Change if they’re old, or if you want a deadbolt on every door. Outside with no key right now? Being locked out with no key comes first, and the locks get sorted once you’re in.	Same day
Breakup, or a roommate left with keys	Rekey or change	Same logic as a lost key. One more thing: a garage opener, a keypad or a gate code isn’t a lock job, so change those codes too.	Same day
Break-in	Change the forced door, then change or rekey the rest	A forced door usually damages the lock, the latch or the strike, so that door gets new hardware. Keys may be gone too, so the other doors get changed or rekeyed. One forced door and no key worry is a job to replace the damaged lock.	Same day, any hour, fast ETA

When two rows fit, say both on the phone and we’ll talk it through. One door works the same way at a smaller scale. Want to change the front door lock and nothing else? That’s the same visit with a shorter list. If that one lock has failed, though, say it sticks or the key spins without moving the bolt, that’s a repair-or-replace call, and a failed lock on one door has its own page.

Every Door That Takes a Key

The job is the door count. Before you call, walk the house and list every outside opening that takes a key, because that list is both the quote and the visit. Here’s what to look for.

• The front door. A knob or lever plus a deadbolt counts as two locks on one door.
• The door from the garage into the house.
• The back door.
• The patio slider. Tell us whether it has a keyed lock or only a flip latch. A slider lock that has failed belongs with sliding glass door lock replacement, not on this list.
• A side door, a laundry door or a pool-bath door, plus any storm door that already has its own key.
• A door with no deadbolt yet. That’s a different job, and our page on fitting a new deadbolt covers it.
• A door where the key works but the lock is on its way out. That’s the failed-lock hand-off above, not a change.

A house with a lanai or a detached garage often has more keyed doors than you remember. Count them all, because each one is a lock on the quote.

Three more things help before we arrive.

1. Write down who else still has a key: the seller, the builder or a trade, the old tenant, the ex, a housekeeper, a dog walker. Gather the keys you do have. That list is the reason for the visit, and it tells us which doors matter most.
2. List the codes you want changed after the event, like a keypad deadbolt, the garage opener or the community gate.
3. Tell us if you want everything on one key, so the right parts are on the van when it pulls up.

Door Count Sets the Quote

You won’t find dollar figures on this page. What we can tell you is what moves the number, and the first thing is how many keyed doors are on your list. After that, it comes down to a short set of things about the doors themselves.

• How many keyed doors there are, counting a knob and a deadbolt on the same door as two locks.
• Whether each door gets a knob or lever plus a deadbolt, or a deadbolt only.
• Whether you want the whole house on one key.
• A door that needs different prep. No deadbolt bore yet is a lock installation job, and a failed slider or mortise lock is a lock replacement job. Both are linked above.

Read us the list when you call and a licensed tech walks through it with you before the van rolls. Business turnovers, an office or a storefront, are a different page: see lock changes for businesses. For anything else at the house, from a sticking latch to a first deadbolt, start with other lock work at the house.

Have your door list? Call (904) 621-6891 and read it to us, or send a quote request with the list in it.

The Change-Out, First Door to Last

Here’s what happens on the visit, in order. A change-out puts new locks into the prep already on the door, and the door count sets how long we’re there, the same way it sets the quote.

Step	What happens
1. Walk the house	We walk the house with you and confirm the keyed-door list from your call. Nothing gets missed, and nothing gets added that you didn’t ask for.
2. Confirm the hardware	Door by door, the new lock is matched by function, a knob or lever plus a deadbolt or a deadbolt on its own, and by finish.
3. Swap the lock	The old lock comes off. The strike and latch get checked so the bolt lines up, then the new lock goes on and gets tested from both sides, with the door open and then closed.
4. Key alike	If you asked for one key, every new lock is pinned to it before the last door is closed up.
5. Hand-over	You get the new keys, and every old key is now useless. If a new lock or a new key gives trouble later, we come back and sort it.

The techs doing the swap have hands-on experience with the knobs, levers, handlesets and deadbolts on house doors, and the rekey kit on the van is what pins the new locks alike. That’s the whole visit. No drilling on a standard swap, and no old key that still works somewhere.

New Locks Leave the House on One Key

The payoff of a whole-house change is one key that works the front door, the garage door into the house, the back door and the side door. Say that’s what you want when you call, and the new locks get pinned alike before we leave, so nobody is sorting a ring of keys at the door. One key needs locks that share a keyway. Whether a mixed-brand house can end up on one key without new hardware is a different question, and the keyed-alike detail on the rekey page answers it.

Is a Whole-House Lock Change a DIY Job?

One knob or deadbolt with matching holes is a screwdriver job, and the instructions in the box cover it. A whole house is where we earn the call: every door done in one visit, every new lock leaving on one key if you asked for it, and a strike that lines up on a door that has been forced.

Where doing it yourself is fine:

• One standard knob or deadbolt, and the holes in the door match the old one.
• The same brand as the lock coming off.
• A screwdriver and the sheet in the box.
• A small house on one brand, using a keyed-alike multi-pack from the store.

Where we earn it:

• The whole house in one visit, with no trip back to the store for a part that didn’t fit.
• Every lock pinned to one key, whatever mix of brands is on the doors right now.
• Mixed brands or finishes matched.
• A strike that no longer lines up, which is common after a forced door.
• The old keys dead before we pull out of the driveway.

Some of these calls reach us after a self-rekey or a DIY swap that did not go back together. If the locks still turn and the only problem is who has a key, that is a lock change. If a part inside was damaged in the attempt, it is the repair-or-replace call linked above.

Most of the lock changes we get called out for are in Julington Creek. Closing day, a unit coming empty between tenants, a house key that never turned up: that’s what those calls are about, and they are usually the whole-home kind rather than one door. A Julington Creek address is inside the Fruit Cove area we cover, so the visit is booked off the same door list as anywhere else in 32259.

Should I Change the Locks After Buying a House?

Yes, change them or at least rekey them on closing day or before the boxes come in, because nobody can say how many copies of the seller’s, the builder’s or a past contractor’s keys are still out there. Change when you want new hardware or one key for the whole house. Rekey when the locks are good and only the old keys need to stop working.

Think about who has held a key to that front door. The seller and their family. The builder and the trades. A neighbor who watered the plants. None of them turned in every copy, and a subdivision gate code is not a substitute for changed locks, because you’re not the only one who knows it.

Closings in the subdivisions off Race Track Road and at addresses on Greenbriar Road sit inside the Fruit Cove area we cover. Give us your closing date when you call and we set the visit for that day or for move-in day, so the new keys are in your hand before the first box comes through the door.

Rental Turnovers in the Fruit Cove Subdivisions

Landlords and property managers call us between leases, and the question is the same one a new owner asks. The locks on a unit are usually fine, so a rekey is often the right call, and you can rekey between tenants instead. Change the locks when the hardware is worn, a door was damaged, or you want every unit on the same hardware.

This is standing work for us, not a one-off. The same landlord or manager can call unit after unit as leases end, and the booking is one call for the whole unit instead of a door at a time.

A turnover covers every door on the unit, plus any shared gate or storage door the old tenant had a key to. Tell us who gets the new keys, the manager or the incoming tenant, and they go to that person. Our techs are background-checked, which matters when they’re working alone in a vacant unit.

Rentals off Race Track Road and Greenbriar Road get the same one-visit treatment as an owner’s house, with every keyed door on the unit done and the old keys dead before we leave.

Fast ETA, Day or Night