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Mt. Eden locksmith service on the flat quarter toward the bay, for ranch houses on wide streets and the small businesses along Industrial Boulevard
The south-west quarter of the city between Hesperian Boulevard and the bay: ranch houses on wide flat streets, older houses on the lanes that were here before the tracts, the shops and yards along Industrial Boulevard, and a run of twenty-six minutes from Jackson Street that is longer when Winton is backed up.
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26 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Twenty-six minutes is the estimate and it is given honestly; at five on a weekday the run out Winton Avenue is slower and the call says so rather than the road proving it. A Mt. Eden ranch house is a wide single story with an attached garage, a slider onto the patio and a gate at the side of the house. The slider is the part owners ask about, and the answer is not a new latch. The factory latch is a hook that keeps the door shut, and a new hook is the same thing again. A pin through the frame at latch height stops the door from sliding and from lifting out, and it is a small line added to a rekey visit rather than a job of its own. A lockout, usually the side gate or the door from the garage, is $115 to $199.
Rekeys here are ordinary and frequent: a purchase, a lost ring, a contractor who had a key for a kitchen job in March. At $24 to $39 per cylinder the whole house is four or five lines, gate and garage side door included. Where a deadbolt has to go on a door that has only a knob, that is $109 to $289. A safe in the garage or the back bedroom is opened at $175 to $479, and the door is nearly always usable afterward. Where a house is rented, and a good many on these streets are, the tenant calls the lockout and the owner or the manager books the rekey; both are told which is which on the call so nobody waits for the wrong person.
Industrial Boulevard and the streets off it are yards, small warehouses, a body shop, a tortilleria, a tile supplier. Those doors are steel in a steel frame with a deadlatch and a padlock on the roll-up. A business lockout is $125 to $229, storefront and steel-door work is $145 to $429, and a panic bar on a rear exit is $279 to $719 per device. Where four people need to open a building and only one should reach the office, a master key system is quoted for the building rather than priced off a list, and the quote names how many keys and which doors. Cars in the yards and along Hesperian bring lockouts at $95 to $185.
For a house, say whether the trouble is the front, the slider, the side gate or the door from the garage. For a yard or a shop on Industrial, say whether it is the office door, the roll-up or the rear exit, and whether anyone is inside the building.
FAQ
Asked about Mt. Eden
Twenty-six minutes seems long for a flat run across the city. Why is it?+
Because the run is Winton Avenue and Hesperian Boulevard, and both back up around the schools and at the end of the day. Twenty-six is the working estimate rather than the best case, and if the road is genuinely worse the call says so instead of letting you find out at the window. Nothing about the distance changes the figure.
The patio slider worries us more than the front door. Is a new latch the fix?+
Not really. The factory hook is what it is, and a new one is the same hook again. What actually stops a slider is a pin through the frame at latch height, which prevents the panel from sliding and from being lifted out of its track. It is a small line added to a rekey visit rather than a job of its own, and it is quoted before it goes in.
There is a yard on Industrial with a roll-up and a man door. Does someone have to be there?+
Someone with authority for the building, yes, before any door on a business is opened. A lease page, a badge, a business license or the manager on the phone settles it. Say whether the trouble is the man door, the roll-up or a rear exit, and whether anybody is inside, because that decides what comes off the van first.
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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.