Non-destructive entry first, always - and we re-key Schlage, Kwikset, and Baldwin locks on the spot while you watch
You get a price before we start. It does not change when we arrive. No surprises.
Fast, Reliable Lock Installation & Rekey Across West Palm Beach
Lock installation and rekeying in West Palm Beach typically runs $85-$225 for a standard rekey (up to six cylinders) and $160-$420 for new deadbolt or handle-set installation, with the full price quoted in writing on the phone before any technician is dispatched. That written quote is the price on the invoice. No surcharge gets added at the door. We’ve worked the neighborhoods on both sides of the Intracoastal since 2002, and we know which locks in this city can be saved and which genuinely need replacement. Call (331) 310-8471 and a live person will give you a firm number.
Why Novak Lock & Security Is West Palm Beach’s Preferred Lock Installation & Rekey Company
West Palm Beach presents a problem most locksmiths never train for. On the mainland side, the 1920s-to-1940s neighborhoods like El Cid, Flamingo Park, and Northwood are full of original mortise locks with skeleton-key hardware and non-standard strike geometry. Across the bridge, Palm Beach island estates and post-2005 coastal construction run on multipoint locking systems bolted into impact-rated doors. Both skill sets live on our trucks. We don’t send a knob-and-deadbolt technician to a 1938 Baldwin mortise lockset.
Every technician who arrives in West Palm Beach is background-checked, uniformed, and working under The Haven Standard, the same documented quality framework applied across all ten Haven brands. Haven Standard Clause 1 states it plainly: the price on the phone is the price on the invoice. Daniel Novak, who leads Novak Lock & Security, built the company on that single rule in 2002 and has never bent it. When the job is done, you receive a written scope and a documented photo record of the work, left with you as standard procedure, not an upgrade.
Reviews from West Palm Beach customers consistently mention the same three things: the phone quote matched the invoice, the technician explained what was wrong before touching the lock, and the photo record showed exactly what was done. We answer our phone around the clock with a live person. No voicemail queue. No callback window.
Our Lock Installation & Rekey Services in West Palm Beach
Smart Lock Installation
Smart lock installation in West Palm Beach runs $180-$380 per door, including the lock and labor, with the specific model priced before we arrive. The question that matters here isn’t which smart lock, it’s whether your door can take one. In Flamingo Park and El Cid, many original wood doors are thin at the mortise pocket and need a reinforcing plate before a smart deadbolt will sit flush. In downtown condos and post-2005 builds, modern aluminum-frame doors accept most retrofit smart locks without modification. We stock Schlage Encode, Yale Assure, and Baldwin Evolved hardware locally, and we’ll tell you honestly if your door needs prep work before a smart lock goes on.
Keyless Entry and Keypad Lock Installation
Keypad lock installation in West Palm Beach starts around $140 for a single-cylinder keypad deadbolt and runs up to $350 for a touchscreen model with multiple user codes. For seasonal rentals and Palm Beach condo owners who hand off codes to property managers each October, a keypad with audit-trail logging makes sense: you can see every access event with a timestamp. We install keyless entry systems on wood doors, impact doors, and the heavy aluminum commercial frames common in mixed-use buildings along Clematis Street. Any door that can take a deadbolt can take a keypad, but the bolt throw needs to line up cleanly with the strike for keyless entry to be reliable long-term.
Biometric Lock Installation
Biometric locks (fingerprint or facial-recognition entry) are the fastest-growing installation in West Palm Beach’s waterfront neighborhoods, where humidity kills cheap keypads and salt air corrodes exposed keypads faster than inland Florida properties. A solid biometric deadbolt from Yale or a fingerprint module added to a Schlage Encode runs $250-$500 installed. The honest caveat: biometric readers need a clean, dry entry point. On doors that face direct Atlantic air off Flagler Drive, we recommend models with sealed sensor housings and a key override, and we say so before you buy. The last thing you want is a fingerprint reader on an ocean-facing door that refuses to read a wet thumb.
Rekeying Services
Rekeying in West Palm Beach runs $18-$28 per cylinder for standard locks and $35-$60 per cylinder for high-security mortise or multipoint hardware. This is the service we recommend first for new homeowners in West Palm Beach: you never know how many copies of the previous owner’s key are floating around. Our Lock Installation & Rekey team can match multiple locks to one key, even when the hardware is a mix of Kwikset, Schlage, and older mortise cylinders. If a lock is too worn to rekey reliably, we say so in writing and show you the condition of the pin stack before you spend anything on replacement.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in West Palm Beach
We are factory-authorized for Medeco, Mul-T-Lock, and Baldwin, and we service Yale and Schlage hardware daily. What that means practically for a West Palm Beach homeowner: when a high-security Mul-T-Lock cylinder needs new pins, we cut and code them on site instead of shipping the cylinder off to a regional service center. For Baldwin mortise locks in the historic districts, we carry the internal springs, cams, and tailpieces that fit pre-WWII bodies, so a 1935 lock stays a 1935 lock instead of becoming a patch job. Parts turnaround for West Palm Beach is same-day on common hardware and next-day on special-order cylinders.
Common Lock Installation & Rekey Problems We See in West Palm Beach Homes
- Mortise locks in El Cid and Flamingo Park that won’t accept modern keys. Original 1920s and 1930s mortise bodies use skeleton-key wards and non-standard tailpieces. They can often be rekeyed in place, but only by a technician who stocks the older pin sizes and knows how to extract the cylinder without drilling the lock body.
- Key-won’t-turn calls that spike every May through September. Seasonal humidity swells wood door frames all over West Palm Beach, shifting strike plates a fraction of an inch. That fraction is enough to bind the deadbolt. The fix is usually strike-plate adjustment or a minor frame trim, not a new lock, but it takes someone who recognizes the difference.
- Post-2005 impact doors where only half the locking system gets replaced. A lot of locksmiths will swap the Euro-profile cylinder on a three-point lock and leave the multipoint gearbox untouched. Then the locking bars don’t align and the door won’t seal against wind load. We service the full mechanism, not just the part the key turns.
- Salt-air corrosion on locks near the Intracoastal and Atlantic-facing exposures. Locks within a mile of the water in West Palm Beach routinely lose brass pins and springs in half the time of identical hardware in Wellington or Royal Palm Beach. When we rekey a waterfront lock, we note the corrosion on the photo record and tell you straight if the cylinder body is near end of life.
Pricing for Lock Installation & Rekey in West Palm Beach, FL
Here are the current West Palm Beach market ranges we quote on the phone:
- Rekey, standard cylinder: $18-$28 per cylinder, up to six cylinders for $85-$130 total
- Rekey, high-security or mortise cylinder: $35-$60 per cylinder
- New deadbolt installation: $160-$260, including hardware
- Full handle-set or smart lock installation: $220-$420, including hardware
- Keypad or biometric lock installation: $140-$500 depending on model and door prep
- Key duplication: $4-$12 for standard keys, $15-$40 for high-security blanks
These are real numbers, not teaser rates. The quote you get from the dispatcher at (331) 310-8471 is a firm price: it covers the trip, the labor, the hardware, and the after-visit documentation. We are contractually prohibited from changing that number at your door, and we’ve operated that way since Daniel Novak founded the company in 2002. West Palm Beach has a known bait-pricing problem in this trade. We built our entire reputation on not being one of those shops. Bring us any competitor’s written estimate and we’ll review it with you at no charge, then give you our firm number in writing.
We Also Serve Cities Near West Palm Beach
Our West Palm Beach crews also cover Palm Beach Gardens, Royal Palm Beach, Wellington, and Lake Worth, with the same firm-phone-quote rule and the same documented photo record. Whether you’re in a 1950s ranch in Lake Worth or a gated Wellington estate, the price you’re quoted is the price on the invoice.
Serving West Palm Beach, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the West Palm Beach 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 - Lock Installation & Rekey in West Palm Beach
Yes, in most cases. Original Baldwin and Sargent mortise locks from the 1920s and 1930s can usually be extracted non-destructively, rekeyed to a modern keyway, and reinstalled. We keep the older pin sizes and tailpieces on the truck specifically because El Cid, Flamingo Park, and Northwood have hundreds of these locks still in daily use. Last October a property manager on Flagler Drive called us before the snowbird rush: a 1938 Mediterranean Revival rental in El Cid still had its original Baldwin mortise lock, but the door was so warped from humidity that the strike plate sat 3/16″ out of alignment. We didn’t force it. We pulled the mortise body, serviced the pin and tumbler stack, reset the strike, and rekeyed the existing cylinder to a new Schlage keyway, saving the owner from a custom door replacement. Call (331) 310-8471 and we’ll tell you over the phone whether yours is likely a rekey job or a replacement job.
Probably not. In West Palm Beach, the usual cause of a seasonal key-won’t-turn is humidity swelling the wood door frame and shifting the strike plate out of alignment with the deadbolt, not a worn cylinder. The fix is strike-plate adjustment or a fine trim of the frame, which runs about $65-$120. If the cylinder itself is corroded from salt air near the Intracoastal, rekeying or replacing it may also be needed. We’ll tell you which it is after looking at the lock, and the price is set before we start.
Yes, if the smart lock is paired with the existing multipoint system rather than replacing it. On post-2005 impact-rated doors with three-point locking bars, the critical component is the gearbox that drives the top and bottom locking points. A smart lock that only turns the center deadbolt, while leaving the multipoint bars disengaged, gives you less protection than the original hardware. We install smart locks on impact doors by integrating them with the full multipoint mechanism, so you get keyless entry and hurricane-grade sealing. That work runs $280-$450 per door depending on the lock model and the gearbox condition.
Same day in most West Palm Beach zip codes. The October snowbird rekey rush is a predictable wave for us: starting in late September, property managers across Palm Beach County line up rekeys for condos and estates that sat vacant or tenant-occupied all summer. We pre-book those jobs and keep extra cylinders, pin kits, and common mortise hardware stocked in September. If you call by mid-morning from downtown West Palm Beach, Palm Beach island, or the neighborhoods along Okeechobee Boulevard, we can usually have a technician there within two to three hours. Call (331) 310-8471 and ask directly; the dispatcher will give you a real arrival window, not a vague promise.
We do both, and we tell you the truth either way. A rekey only changes the pins inside the cylinder. It does not fix a corroded lock body, a worn tailpiece, or a mortise case with broken springs. Before we rekey anything in West Palm Beach, we remove the cylinder and inspect it. If the lock is too far gone to rekey reliably, we show you exactly what we found, put the written condition assessment on your invoice, and recommend replacement only if it’s genuinely necessary. This is what the Information-Gain hook on this page promises: we tell you which West Palm Beach locks can be rekeyed in place, original mortise, multipoint, or high-security, and which need to be replaced, based on actual door and cylinder condition. Not a generic checklist.
Contact Novak Lock & Security for Lock Installation & Rekey in West Palm Beach
Call (331) 310-8471 for a firm, written quote on any lock installation, rekey, or keyless entry job in West Palm Beach. A live person answers, the price is set before anyone is dispatched, and the photo record and written scope are on your invoice when the technician leaves. That’s the rule Daniel Novak put in place in 2002, and it’s never been broken.
Written by Daniel Novak, Owner at Novak Lock & Security, serving West Palm Beach since 2002.
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