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Get your free estimateLocksmith in Long Beach, CA
Long Beach locksmith work is different. The city’s 1910s and 1920s bungalows, pre-war apartment courts, and Spanish Revival homes still carry original mortise locksets and skeleton-key hardware that most modern locksmiths never see. Add marine-layer salt air corroding exterior keyways along the coast and you’re dealing with a job that rewards experience. True Blue Locksmith has served Long Beach since 2017, and our bread and butter here is rekeying older locks correctly, the first time. Call us at (877) 358-5506 for a locksmith in Long Beach, CA who knows the old hardware as well as the new.
Why Long Beach Homes Are Different
Walk any street in Belmont Shore, Alamitos Beach, or the historic neighborhoods around Downtown and you’ll notice the same thing: original wood doors, ornate mortise lock bodies, and surface-mounted rim locks that have outlived four generations of tenants. These aren’t Kwikset-grade quick swaps. A 1935 California bungalow in Rose Park with a skeleton-key mortise lock needs a locksmith who can open the case, measure the blade profile, and cut a matching warded key on site, not someone fumbling with a blank that big-box hardware stores stopped stocking decades ago.
The climate adds another layer. Homes west of Redondo Avenue live under a marine layer for much of the year, and salt fog off the Pacific works its way into door hardware. We see exterior lock cylinders along the shorelines of Naples and the Peninsula that turn rough within two years of installation. Dry heat does its own damage a few miles inland, where wood doors in neighborhoods like Los Altos and Bixby Knolls swell, warp, and pull the strike plate out of alignment every summer. A rekey that ignores the door’s condition simply won’t hold. Our job is to make the hardware function now and keep functioning after the next coastal fog or heat spell.
Long Beach also has thousands of two- and three-story apartment courts from the 1920s through the 1960s. When a landlord rekeys a six-unit court built in 1948, the goal is usually keyed-alike entry for the manager and separate tenant keys for units. That means planning a master key system around old mortise cylinders, not just swapping deadbolts. It’s work we do regularly in Long Beach.
Styles & brands we work with
Our Main Long Beach Services
Most Long Beach calls to True Blue Locksmith fall into two buckets: people locked out of a car or house right now, and people who want to rekey a home, apartment court, or business because a key has gone missing or a tenant has moved out.
Car Key Replacement in Long Beach
Car key replacement on a Long Beach street or apartment court driveway usually means cutting and programming a transponder key or remote head key, not just cutting a metal blank. Salt air near the shore corrodes door lock actuators, but the key and ignition cylinder are the parts that typically fail first. If you’ve lost your only key on Fourth Street or snapped one in an ignition by the marina, we come to you. See the full breakdown on our Car Key Replacement in Long Beach page for what to expect by make and model.
Emergency Locksmith in Long Beach
An emergency lockout in Long Beach often happens at the worst time: coming back from a night shift in the Port area, locked out of a Belmont Shore apartment at midnight, or standing next to a running car on Ocean Boulevard. Our emergency service runs outside standard business hours because that’s when locks fail. We respond without a call-out surcharge when we arrive. Details are on our Emergency Locksmith in Long Beach page, including how we handle night calls in the beach neighborhoods and the downtown core.
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.
Rekey Locks in Long Beach
Long Beach rekey work rotates heavily around one reality: the city’s pre-war bungalows and 1920s-40s apartment courts from Downtown to Belmont Shore were built around mortise locks and skeleton keys, so rekeying a multi-unit building here often means working with warded or skeleton-key hardware that no big-box store stocks. This is not the same job as swapping a modern Kwikset deadbolt in a neighboring inland city. Add the salt-humidity factor along the coastal ZIPs of 90840, 90842, and 90844, and you get keyways that need cleaning and lubrication before new pins will even seat. That’s what we do: rekey the lock you actually have, not the one we wish you had. See Rekey Locks for the full scope of how we handle every type of cylinder.
Rekey Door Lock
Signs you need it
You’ve moved into a Long Beach rental, lost track of who has a copy of your key, or ended a roommate or tenant situation and want to make sure old keys stop working tonight.
What it costs in Long Beach
A standard single-cylinder deadbolt or entry knob rekey on a bungalow or apartment door in Long Beach typically runs $75 to $150 for the first lock, with each additional lock keyed alike at a lower per-lock rate based on the hardware.
How we do it
We disassemble the cylinder, swap out the old pins for new ones cut to your new key, reassemble the lock, and test it with every relevant key before we call the job done.
Keyed Alike
Signs you need it
You’re juggling three different keys for the front door, the back door, the garage, or the side gate and want one key that turns every lock on the property.
What it costs in Long Beach
Keying multiple locks alike in Long Beach generally falls between $75 and $150 for the first lock plus a smaller per-lock charge for each additional cylinder, depending entirely on whether the hardware is modern pin-tumbler or older mortise-style.
How we do it
We pin each cylinder to match a single new key, cutting copies on site, then test the same key in every lock from the front door to the back gate before we leave.
What Rekey Locks Costs in Long Beach
| Item | Typical range in Long Beach |
|---|---|
| Rekey first cylinder (residential) | $75 – $150 |
| Each additional cylinder keyed alike | $35 – $75 |
| Mortise lock or skeleton-key rekey (per door) | $100 – $200 |
How much does it cost to rekey a house in Long Beach?
Most Long Beach homes run $75 to $150 for the first cylinder and less per additional lock, so a two-door bungalow typically lands under $250. The full price is quoted on the phone before anyone is dispatched.
Can you rekey old mortise or skeleton-key locks in Long Beach?
Yes, that’s a specialty of ours here. We rekey original mortise locks and warded skeleton-key locks throughout Long Beach’s pre-war housing stock, and the per-door cost is usually $100 to $200. Call (877) 358-5506 for an exact quote.
Brands We Service in Long Beach
True Blue Locksmith works across the hardware Long Beach actually has, from Kwikset and Yale on bungalow deadbolts to Baldwin on higher-end Spanish Revival homes and Medeco on commercial and high-security applications. We carry common pins, blanks, and cylinders for these brands so a standard rekey usually finishes same-day. Browse our brands for the full list.
Pricing for Locksmith in Long Beach, CA
| Service | Typical range in Long Beach |
|---|---|
| Rekey first cylinder (residential) | $75 – $150 |
| Each additional cylinder keyed alike | $35 – $75 |
| Mortise lock or skeleton-key rekey (per door) | $100 – $200 |
| Keyed alike multi-lock setup (3+ cylinders) | $150 – $300 |
| Car key replacement (basic transponder) | $180 – $340 |
| Car key replacement (remote head or proximity key) | $250 – $500 |
| Emergency lockout (residential, non-destructive entry) | $95 – $180 |
| Emergency lockout (automotive, non-destructive entry) | $85 – $160 |
| Mortise lock body replacement (parts and labor) | $200 – $450 |
What pushes price up in Long Beach is age. If your exterior cylinder is packed with salt corrosion or your mortise lock body is so worn that new pins won’t seat smoothly, there may be a cylinder rebuild or lock body replacement in play. Either way, the full price is quoted on the phone before anyone is dispatched, and it’s the price on the invoice when we arrive.
Neighborhoods We Serve in Long Beach
We cover all Long Beach ZIP codes including 90835, 90840, 90842, and 90844. Most residential rekey and lockout work in Long Beach is completed within one to two hours of booking, depending on traffic along the 710, Pacific Coast Highway, and Ocean Boulevard corridors.
- Belmont Shore and Naples
- Alamitos Beach and Downtown Long Beach
- Rose Park and Bluff Heights
- Bixby Knolls and Los Altos
- Signal Hill border and Eastside
Service Area – Cities Near Long Beach
Our Long Beach work regularly takes us into the smaller cities and unincorporated areas nearby. We handle rekey and emergency calls in Signal Hill, CA, just north across Willow Street, and in Lakewood, CA to the northeast. We also serve Carson, CA and the West Carson, CA area, both of which share Long Beach’s mix of mid-century homes and coastal-adjacent wear on exterior hardware.
Serving Long Beach, CA — Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Long 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 About Locksmith in Long Beach
We cover all Long Beach ZIP codes including 90835, 90840, 90842, and 90844, from Belmont Shore through Downtown to Bixby Knolls and the Eastside. For rekey jobs and scheduled work we also serve nearby Signal Hill, Lakewood, Carson, and West Carson. Call (877) 358-5506 to confirm your exact street.
No city permit is required to rekey a residential lock in Long Beach. If you’re in an HOA or an apartment court with a building manager, check your rules on changing hardware, but rekeying the existing lock is generally fine. We work with those requirements every week.
Because that’s the whole point of the True Blue name. When you call (877) 358-5506, we give you the full price for the job before anyone is dispatched, and there’s no call-out surcharge added on arrival. The price we quote is the price on the invoice.
What happens when you call
- 1A real person answersNo phone trees — talk to a local locksmith pro.
- 2You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched. No surprises.
- 3We come out and measureLicensed & insured, at a time that suits you — the visit and the quote are both free.
- 4You get the price in writingLine-itemed, yours to keep, and nothing starts until you say go.
What Long Beach Customers Say
"Rekey was done properly. One of the keys he cut was slightly stiff in the back door and I had to call him to swap it, which he did without a fuss."
— Doug Ziegler"Programmed a transponder key for a 2014 model that the dealership wanted an absurd amount for. Same key, fraction of the price, took him twenty minutes in my driveway."
— Gilbert Herrera"Key snapped off in the deadbolt. He extracted it without damaging the cylinder, which I did not think was going to be possible."
— Claudia Ramirez