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Jackson Triangle locksmith service, eighteen minutes from where the van sits, for duplexes, small houses and doors that change tenants every couple of years
The blocks between Jackson Street and Mission Boulevard: duplexes and small houses on quiet streets, families who have been here for decades beside units that turn over on a lease, back cottages, driveways shared by two front doors, and the neighborhood the van waits in between calls.
4.9 / 5· 598 reviews from Hayward & the unincorporated strip beside it
18 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
The van is based at this end of Jackson Street, so eighteen minutes is the honest number and it is usually less. A Jackson Triangle duplex has two front doors off one porch or one driveway, a shared side gate, and a back unit or a converted garage on about a third of the lots. That layout decides the work. When a unit turns over, the incoming tenant should get one key that opens their own doors and nothing else, and the gate should be pinned so both households pass it. Rekeying is $24 to $39 per cylinder, and a small owner with two units on the same lot pays the $89 visit once inside one figure. Owners who live here themselves and owners who live three states away get the same receipt and the same written line for the file.
The other half of the work is lockouts, and they come from tenants as often as from owners. A house lockout is $115 to $199. The door is picked open, since the cylinder belongs to whoever owns the building and drilling it turns a lockout into a repair. Proof that the person at the door lives there is asked for, and it is the same standard for everyone: an ID with the address, or an ID and a lease or a bill on a phone. Nobody is asked to prove more because they rent. If the papers are all inside, say so on the call and it is sorted before the van arrives instead of on the porch.
Hardware here is mixed. A 1940s knob on the back door, a deadbolt bought at a hardware store in the nineties, a screen door with a latch that has been kicked twice. A door that stopped latching after a wet week is usually a strike out of line or a hinge that has dropped, not a lock, and it is adjusted rather than replaced; that costs less than a new deadbolt and it is said before anything is fitted. Where a door has only a knob, a deadbolt with screws long enough to reach the framing is $109 to $289. Cars on the street bring lockouts at $95 to $185. Evening calls carry $45 between 8pm and midnight and $80 overnight, already inside the figure said on the call.
Say whether yours is the front unit, the back unit or a converted garage, and whether the driveway or the gate is shared. If you rent, have an ID and the lease on your phone; both are asked for at the door, the same as anywhere else in the city.
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FAQ
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The van is based in this neighborhood. Does that mean it is faster than eighteen minutes?+
Often, but eighteen is what gets promised. The van is only parked here between calls, so on a busy evening it may be coming back from the Highlands rather than sitting on Jackson Street. The window you get by text is drawn from wherever it actually is when you ring, and it is better to beat a window than to miss one.
Two front doors open off one porch here. How do you know which one is mine?+
By your saying so on the call: front unit or back unit, upstairs or down, or the converted garage off the driveway. On a duplex the wrong door means an owner is telephoned about work nobody ordered, so it gets settled before the van moves rather than on the porch with a neighbor watching.
Is the shared side gate counted as a door when we rekey?+
If it takes a key, yes, and it is worth doing. The usual arrangement is that the gate is pinned so both households pass it while neither key opens the other front door. That is one more cylinder at $24 to $39, it is named on the call, and the receipt says which key was cut for which door so there is no argument later.
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The van is already in town, and the number comes before it moves
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.