Cole Harbour Locksmith and Garage Door Repair
Locked out in Forest Hills, a garage door stuck in Colby Village, or keys lost near Cole Harbour Place? We come out any hour for lockouts, rekeys, car keys and garage door repairs across Cole Harbour.
How do you get to Cole Harbour?
We reach Cole Harbour by Highway 111 and Portland Street, which becomes Cole Harbour Road, or by Highway 107 and Forest Hills Parkway for the eastern side. We tell you the timing on the phone, based on where our technician is when you call.
Where we go around Cole Harbour:
- Forest Hills
- Colby Village
- Westphal
- Cole Harbour Road corridor
- Cow Bay Road side
Built out in the 1970s and 1980s
Cole Harbour grew quickly once Highway 111 was finished and Cole Harbour Road was widened, and subdivisions like Forest Hills and Colby Village filled in through the 1970s and 1980s. A lot of those houses now carry their original exterior doors and the garage hardware from the same era, and both are reaching the end of their working life.
The salt marsh is right there
The Salt Marsh Trail runs along the old CN rail line by the harbour the community is named for, and homes near the water and the marsh get wet, salty wind off the Atlantic. That shows up as sticky deadbolts, pitted handles and rusted garage door springs and cables sooner than in neighbourhoods further inland.
Most of Cole Harbour has a Dartmouth address
Canada Post lists most Cole Harbour homes with a Dartmouth mailing address. That is fine: give us the street and the nearest cross street on Cole Harbour Road or Forest Hills Parkway, and we know exactly where you are.
Lockouts in Forest Hills, Colby Village and Westphal
Cole Harbour lockouts are mostly family homes: a back door that clicked shut, a kid home from Cole Harbour District High with no key, or a car in the lot at Cole Harbour Place. Call or text with the street and we head your way. We open most house doors without drilling, and if a lock does have to be cut we tell you why first. Our car lockout page covers what to do if the keys are inside a running car.
Rekey or replace on older doors
Houses from the 1970s and 1980s often have several generations of keys out in the world, with former owners, sitters and trades. Rekeying cuts them all off and lets one key work every door. Where the wind off the harbour has worn a deadbolt out, a lock change to a solid new grade of hardware is the better fix, and we tell you which doors need it. Front doors that face the water usually go first, so we check those before anything else.
Garage doors near the water
Salt air and freeze-thaw are tough on garage door springs, cables and rollers. When a spring snaps or the door drops crooked, call us any hour for garage door repair. If your opener is old, noisy or has lost its remotes, we repair or replace it too. Wet snow piling against the bottom of the door can freeze the seal to the floor, so if the opener strains and the door will not lift, stop pressing the button and call: forcing it is how cables come off their drums. Further along the coast we serve Eastern Passage and out to Porters Lake.
Questions from Cole Harbour
- My mail says Dartmouth but I live in Cole Harbour. Do you cover me?
- Yes. We cover all of Cole Harbour, Westphal and the Cow Bay Road side, whatever your mailing address says.
- Should I rekey or change the locks on an older Cole Harbour house?
- If the locks turn smoothly and the doors close well, a rekey is enough. If a deadbolt is worn, loose or rusted, we show you and suggest a lock change for that door only.
- Can you fix a garage door spring in Cole Harbour on a weekend?
- Yes. Spring and cable repairs are an around-the-clock service for us, weekends included.
Book a time, or ask a question.
Open 24 hours, 7 days. You approve the price before we start.