Re-keying every lock in your house all by yourself

Re:Re-keying every lock in your house all by yourself by gmiller123456 on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:10PM (#22142484)

Replacing all of your locks doesn't really fit into the category that I'd call re-keying. It might be the way to go for anyone not at all into DIY, but you can buy a Kwikset compatible pin kit on Ebay for under $6 (in the US at least), and it can do several locks.

It looks like the author's total cost was $170, which is probably enough that it would have been worth getting a quote from a locksmith so see if they could have done it cheaper. Especially if you're willing to take the locks off yourself and take them to a hardware store or locksmith.

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Re:Re-keying every lock in your house all by yourself by setr on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:29PM (#22142649)

>which is probably enough that it would have been worth getting a quote from a locksmith

He mentions basically doing that:

> I researched getting a locksmith to come out, it would run hundreds of dollars in their time plus you can only re-key locks to a key made by the same manufacturer

> I could save money by bringing the locks to a locksmith’s store, replacing off brands with a single brand and re-installing myself, and there are esoteric expensive kits on Amazon for locksmith-style rekeying, but each brand requires it’s own $80 box of materials plus many hours of practice to master

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Re:Re-keying every lock in your house all by yourself by dpark on Friday January 24, 2020 @06:14PM (#22143268)

It does not take hours to master rekeying a lock. It would take hours to do a whole house but probably an hour at most for the first.

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