There’s many reasons that homeowners may need to rekey their homes, and rekeying is a process that’s often misunderstood by the public. Rekeying is an incredibly common locksmith operation for our talented technicians - in this blog post, the expert lock rekeying team at Sonic Lock and Key will provide a basic guide to home rekeying.

A Single Universal Key Carries Great Benefits

If you’re sick of carrying around a big ring of tons of keys, lock rekeying offers a fantastic way to stay organized and make your pockets lighter - while not making your wallet lighter! Our expert lock rekeying services can change the locks on all the doors on your locks so only a single universal key is required to open any of them. This provides a fantastic level of total key control, and removes your need to search for the right key for a particular door when you are in a rush.  

Lock Rekeying is Much Cheaper than Lock Replacement

It’s much more affordable to rekey your locks than to totally remove and replace your locks. Lock replacement often additionally warrants brand new handles and deadbolts - and potential door modifications to allow it to fit the new locks. Lock rekeying is much easier and cheaper - our expert technicians will simply just remove the lock from the door, remove it’s pins, and then replace them with a set of pins in a new configuration. This makes the older key unusable, making it so only the brand new key can open the door. It’s a much cheaper and faster technique that offers the same goal of total lock replacement!  

You can keep your existing door / lock hardware with lock rekeying!

Lock replacement will require you to get brand new door hardware, deadbolts, and handles. This is usually expensive - and sometimes replacements aren’t readily available on the market - original hardware matches may be very difficult to find! Getting your locks simply rekeyed by the expert team here at Sonic Locksmith is a much better approach, as you won’t have to worry about replacing ANY of your existing door hardware!