Medeco Lock Installation & Rekey Nationwide

Medeco Lock Installation & Rekey in Houston: What to Know First

We provide independent Medeco lock installation and rekey service across Houston, typically same-day or next-day, with a flat price quoted on the phone before our technician heads your way. Most Medeco residential jobs run $195-$475 depending on whether we’re rekeying cylinders, replacing a deadbolt, or installing a new keyed entry set on a prepped door. As an independent Medeco service provider, we carry OEM cylinders, key blanks, and replacement hardware for the lines you’re most likely to find in Houston homes built from the 1990s forward.

Call (833) 695-3962

This page is for homeowners in neighborhoods like Memorial, Bellaire, the Heights, and Sugar Land who already have Medeco on their doors and need someone who knows the difference between a Maxum deadbolt and an Original cylinder - not a technician who’ll stare at it and guess. Call (833) 695-3962 to speak with a live person, any hour.

How Medeco Products Fail - and How We Fix Them

• Maxum 11*5 Series deadbolts with sticky thumb turns. In Houston’s humidity, the zinc alloy housing can swell slightly against the bolt mechanism, especially on south-facing doors that bake all afternoon. We see this in West University and River Oaks homes where the deadbolt feels fine in March and seizes by August. We disassemble, clean the housing bore, and either lubricate with Medeco-specified dry graphite or replace the bolt carriage if the cam has worn - never WD-40, which turns to gum in Gulf Coast moisture.
• Original (key-in-knob) cylinders with sheared sidebar springs. The Original’s six-pin sidebar design depends on two small coil springs that fatigue after 15-20 years of use. When one breaks, the key spins freely or catches at odd angles. We stock OEM sidebar spring kits and can rebuild the cylinder in your kitchen in about 40 minutes, saving you the cost of a full replacement.
• Biaxial cut keys that won’t retract the latch smoothly. Houston’s hard water and airborne grit work into keyways over time, but the real culprit is often duplicate keys cut on standard machines that don’t match Medeco’s angled bitting. We cut on a Medeco-compatible duplicator and verify each key against the factory depth and spacing specs - not eyeball it.
• 3-in-1 deadbolts with misaligned strike plates after foundation shift. Houston’s gumbo clay expands and contracts dramatically; we’ve rehung doors in Braeswood Place that had dropped an eighth of an inch in two dry summers. The 3-in-1’s thick bolt throws with more force than lighter deadbolts, so misalignment shows up as premature wear on the bolt face. We adjust the strike, shim the hinges, or relocate the strike box rather than let you grind down a $200 deadbolt.
• Medeco M3 cylinders with chipped key heads from ring wear. The M3’s oversized bow puts leverage on the key head every time you twist. After years on a crowded ring, the head cracks at the shoulder and the key snaps off in the cylinder - usually at 7 PM on a Friday. We extract broken keys without drilling, source replacement M3 blanks with the correct interactive element, and cut to your existing code.

Our Medeco Lock Installation & Rekey Process

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   You call, we answer. A live person picks up, asks what Medeco hardware you’re dealing with, and gives you a flat price range based on the work described. We quote it flat before the truck rolls, and we put it in writing when the job is done.
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   Tech arrives, shows ID. Our technician calls 20 minutes out, arrives in a marked Strongbox vehicle, and presents identification at your door. Background-checked and uniformed - the person who opens your Medeco lock should be the most verifiable person you’ve ever hired.
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   Diagnose on site, confirm the price. We verify the model line, identify any hidden issues (foundation shift, door prep problems, incompatible backsets), and confirm the exact price before touching tools. No surprises.
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   Parts decision: OEM or quality aftermarket. For rekeys, we use OEM Medeco cylinders and key blanks to preserve your key control. For hardware replacement, we’ll recommend OEM when it matters for warranty or security grade, and explain when a quality aftermarket option makes sense.
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   Install, rekey, test, clean. We cycle every key 20 times, check the thumb turn operation, verify the strike engagement, and vacuum metal shavings before we leave.
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   Written guarantee, no paperwork to file. You get a copy of our 90-Day Done Right Promise on the spot. If anything’s not right, we come back. No forms to mail, no phone trees to navigate.

What Medeco Lock Installation & Rekey Costs in Houston

What moves the price: door thickness over 1-3/4 inches, non-standard backset, additional keys beyond two, and jobs outside the Beltway that require toll time. Seniors and veterans receive a permanent 5% discount. Call (833) 695-3962 for your exact quote - estimates are free, and the price we quote is the price you pay.

Why Houston Homeowners Call Strongbox Lock & Safe Co. of Houston for Medeco Work

We’ve been in Houston for over 42 years. Earl Hutchinson learned this trade at San Jacinto College and has spent three decades working within twenty miles of where he grew up in Acres Homes. That means we understand what Houston’s humidity and shifting clay do to precision hardware - and we stock the parts to fix it without ordering from a warehouse in Ohio.

Our technicians carry Medeco cylinders, key blanks, and specialty tools on every truck, alongside Schlage and Kwikset hardware for homes with mixed brands. If your Medeco is discontinued or parts are backordered, we’ll tell you straight and offer a genuine alternative, not a bait-and-switch to whatever’s cheap.

The 90-Day Done Right Promise covers every installation and rekey in writing. No arguing, no extra paperwork. We plan to be here in thirty years, and we act like it.

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