Lock Replacement in Chandler, AZ

Neighborhoods with HOA covenants

The city's Code Enforcement FAQ describes homeowner associations as private organizations that oversee maintenance standards set out in written covenants, conditions and restrictions. The FAQ adds that code enforcement covers every property in Chandler, association areas included, and that where an association's standard is less restrictive than city code, the city requirement remains. Before choosing a finish or style for a lock set that shows on the front door, read your covenants or ask the association whether they mention exterior hardware.

Count the doors, then the years

Detached houses are 66.0 percent of Chandler's homes and attached single-family homes another 6.0 percent, and zoning amendments adopted in March 2024 allow accessory dwelling units on single-family lots. List every exterior door before ordering anything: front, back, garage entry, side gate and any backyard unit. Sets that match across all of them, or that share one key, are easier to arrange in a single visit than to sort out one door at a time.

Age matters too. The city counts nearly 7,000 single-family homes finished since 2013, while 73.1 percent of all homes were built between 1980 and 2009. A door from 2016 and a door from 1988 raise different questions, so give the year the house was built. For a designated property in Silk Stocking, where the city says most of the historic homes are Early Ranch in style, talk to the city before an original front door is replaced, since its Historic Preservation Officer reviews applications to alter designated structures.

Which job is it?

• Replacement suits a lock body that is damaged, worn through or below the security grade you want.
• Rekeying suits hardware that works well but whose keys are in too many hands.
• Repair suits a case where only the latch, the strike or the handle misbehaves.

What to send with the request

• the year built, the type of home and which doors are involved
• photos of each face of the door and of its edge
• whether an HOA or a landlord has to approve the hardware
• the finish you want, and whether the new set should open with one shared key
• the brand of the current lock, if it is marked

Changing only who can open the door is a smaller job, described under lock rekeying. The full service is on the lock replacement page, and the city is under Chandler.