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Burbank and the Cannery locksmith calls, for 1950s tract houses on flat streets and the newer units on the old cannery blocks
The flat grid west of Mission around the old cannery: rows of 1950s tract houses with the garage facing the street, original builder hardware on a good many of them, the cannery blocks rebuilt as townhomes and apartments, alleys behind some streets and long straight runs that the van covers in eighteen minutes.
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18 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
A Burbank tract house was built with a knob on the front door and nothing above it. Most have gained a deadbolt since, usually in the eighties, often with a strike held by two three-quarter-inch screws in the jamb. The deadbolt is fine; the screws are the weak part, and swapping them for screws that reach the framing behind the jamb takes a few minutes and is the cheapest thing done all day. The commonest call from these streets is the door from the garage into the kitchen. It latches by itself, the roll-up is down, and the family is standing on the driveway. That is a house lockout at $115 to $199, opened without damage, and the garage side door is opened first when there is one.
After a purchase, every cylinder goes onto one key: front, back, garage side door, the gate to the yard, sometimes a shed at the fence line. That is $24 to $39 per cylinder, and the count on a tract house is short, which keeps the figure short. Original builder knobs with a worn keyway are worth keeping if the latch still springs; where the keyway is so worn that a spare key wiggles it open, the lock is replaced at $109 to $289 and the grade is named before it goes on the door. Households with a sitter, a caregiver or a teenager who keeps losing keys put a smart lock at $169 to $429 on the door from the garage, because that is the door the family actually uses, and the front keeps its key.
The cannery blocks are a different building altogether: newer townhomes and apartments with a garage under the unit, a common entry and, in some buildings, a mailbox in the lobby. Unit rekeys between tenants are the same $24 to $39 per cylinder, and a manager booking three doors in one building pays the $89 visit once. When a back door has been forced, the repair is $155 to $399 and covers the strike, the jamb and the cylinder that took the load; what was done goes on the receipt in plain words, because that is the sentence an insurer reads first. Evening work carries $45 inside the figure, overnight $80.
Say whether the address is a tract house or a unit on the cannery blocks, and whether the trouble is the front, the door from the garage or a gate. Give the cross street; the streets here run long and look alike after dark.
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The door from the garage shut behind us while the roll-up was going down. What is that?+
A house lockout at $115 to $199, and it is the single commonest call off these streets. The garage side door is tried first where there is one, because that is often open and costs nothing to check. The kitchen door is picked rather than drilled, and it goes on working afterward. If a child or a pet is inside, say so first and the call is handled differently.
These streets run long and look alike after dark. What should I give on the call?+
The nearest cross street, and something the van can see: a porch light left on, a truck in the drive, the color of the house. House numbers on the tract blocks are small and often behind a shrub that was planted in 1962. Thirty seconds of that on the phone saves more time than any shortcut on the road.
We are in a unit on the cannery blocks, not a tract house. Is that the same call?+
The buildings are different and the work is too. A cannery-block unit has a garage under it, a common entry and sometimes a mailbox bank in the lobby, so the question is which of those doors is the problem and who authorizes it. The figures are the same, and a manager booking three unit rekeys in one building pays the $89 visit once.
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Hayward, San Lorenzo, Cherryland and Ashland, San Leandro, Castro Valley and Union City, 24/7, holidays included. Describe the door, hear one number with the $89 visit inside it, and the lock gets opened without damage wherever it can be. The receipt says what the call said. It runs the same way whether the lease is in your name or the deed is.