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Cardinal Lock & Key Real prices · Durham, NC

seven services · every price printed

Services, with the numbers attached

Each range below is an all-in daytime total inside our service area. The $35 trip fee and labor are already in it. Evenings and overnights add one flat, printed adder per visit, and the technician confirms a firm number in writing before any work starts.

Woman sitting on the front steps of her building with her bag, waiting after locking herself out

Emergency lockouts

Home, business or car. Picked open, not drilled open, at the price we quoted on the phone.

  • House or apartment lockout $95–$140
  • Business lockout $110–$160
  • Car lockout $85–$135
  • Broken key extraction $85–$125
Locksmith kneeling at a homeowner's glass front door, adjusting the lock while she watches from the porch

Residential & home security

Stronger doors, patio and window locks, and a free walk-through of what your home actually needs.

  • Door reinforcement, first door (strike plate + 3-inch screws) $85–$120
  • Each additional door reinforced $40 per door
  • Sliding patio door lock, supplied + installed $95–$145
  • Window locks, supplied + installed added to any visit $25–$40 per window
  • Gate, shed or garage side-door lock $75–$120
  • Home security walk-through door by door, written up, no sales pitch free with any visit
Hands testing a freshly repinned lock cylinder with a new key at a workbench

Lock rekeying

Keep the hardware, retire the old keys. The right call after a move, a breakup or a lost keyring.

  • Rekey visit, includes first two cylinders $125
  • Each additional cylinder $24 per cylinder
  • Extra cut keys (four included) $6 per key
  • Rekey into a master-key system Surveyed and quoted on paper first. See commercial. survey first
Close-up of a technician driving a screw into a new lock on a glass-panel door with a yellow cordless drill

Lock installation & repair

Deadbolts, handlesets and repairs. Graded hardware, with the grade printed on your quote.

  • Grade 2 deadbolt, supplied + installed $165–$225
  • Grade 1 heavy-duty deadbolt, supplied + installed $265–$340
  • Install hardware you bought $85–$110 per lock
  • Fresh bore (new door prep) added once per new-bore door $75
  • Lock repair or door realignment $95–$150
Brass keypad smart lock installed above the handle on a taupe front door beside a stone wall

Smart locks

Keypads and Wi-Fi deadbolts installed, set up and explained. The codes are yours, not ours.

  • Install + program a lock you bought $145–$185
  • Keypad deadbolt, supplied + installed $265–$320
  • Wi-Fi smart lock, supplied + installed $340–$495
  • App setup + spare-code walkthrough included with every install included
Automotive locksmith programming two replacement key fobs with a diagnostic tablet in the driver's seat

Car keys & fobs

Cut and programmed at your car, usually 30 to 50% under the dealer. The range is printed here.

  • Basic metal key, cut $65–$95
  • Transponder (chip) key, cut + programmed $140–$240
  • Remote-head or flip key $180–$320
  • Proximity smart fob (push-button start) $240–$420
  • All keys lost added once, on top of the key price $60–$120
  • Car lockout $85–$135
Hand holding a key card up to a wall-mounted access-control reader at an office door

Commercial & master keys

Storefronts, offices and master-key systems. Designed on paper and priced before parts are ordered.

  • Commercial lockout $110–$160
  • Grade 1 lever lockset, supplied + installed $265–$340
  • Panic or exit-device hardware $380–$650
  • Keypad access control, single door starting price, scoped on site from $425
  • Desk, cabinet & mailbox locks $65–$95
  • Master-key system design + install survey first, priced on paper before any work from $450 · survey first

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The complete price book: trip fee, labor, parts ranges, after-hours adders, and the short list of jobs we refuse to price sight-unseen.

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no bait · no switch

One call. One honest number.

Tell us what's wrong and we'll quote the range from the price book on this site. If there's an after-hours adder, you'll hear it out loud before we roll.

Mon to Sat, 8 am to 6 pm · lockout line answered 24/7

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