Nearby city · 24/7
San Lorenzo locksmith calls on the grid north of the city, for small 1940s houses that were built alike and have been altered one at a time
The unincorporated grid between Hesperian Boulevard and the freeway: rows of small houses put up in the 1940s for shipyard workers, the Village and the shops around it, straight streets on a flat grid, garages converted into rooms, and a twenty-four-minute run north on Hesperian.
4.9 / 5· 598 reviews from Hayward & the unincorporated strip beside it
24 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
San Lorenzo houses were built to one pattern and have been changed one house at a time ever since, which is exactly what the work looks like. The front door is small and often original, with a knob and a deadbolt added at some point in the last fifty years. The back door goes to a yard. The garage has usually been converted into a bedroom or a rented room, and that conversion door is the one that never quite latches. Rekeying is $24 to $39 per cylinder and the count is four or five on most lots. A lockout is $115 to $199, picked open, and on these small houses the answer is often the back door rather than the front, which is said before the technician walks around.
A good many of these houses are rented, sometimes by the family that grew up in them and moved on, and the working pattern is the same as inside the city. A rekey between tenants is booked by the owner or by the manager acting for them. A tenant locked out at night calls the lockout themselves, shows an ID and the lease, and the door is opened without damage. Neither is treated as the lesser call. Where an owner has a couple of houses on the same street, they go into one visit and the $89 service call is inside the figure once rather than three times.
The Village and the shops along Hesperian bring commercial work: glass doors in aluminum frames, a deadlatch that has drifted, a back door onto a service lane. Storefront work is $145 to $429 and a business lockout at opening is $125 to $229. Cars in the shopping lots and along the side streets bring lockouts at $95 to $185 and a replacement key at $139 to $379 for a car with no key at all. San Lorenzo is unincorporated and its addresses read differently to the city's, but nothing about the figure changes for it. Arrival is about twenty-four minutes, and $45 is inside the figure between 8pm and midnight, $80 after.
Say whether the address is in the Village or on the streets toward the freeway, and give a cross street, because the blocks here repeat. If the trouble is a converted garage or a back room that is rented separately, say so, since that decides which door and who books the work.
FAQ
Asked about San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo is county ground, not the city. Does that change the price or the wait?+
Neither. The addresses read differently and the streets are outside the city line, but this is inside the van route and the figures on this site are the figures here. Twenty-four minutes north on Hesperian Boulevard is the working estimate, and nothing is added for the distance or for the address being unincorporated.
Every house on the block was built to the same plan. What should I say on the call?+
Whether the address is near the Village or over toward the freeway, plus a cross street, since the blocks repeat and the numbers are small. Then say which door: the front, the back door to the yard, or the converted garage. On these lots the back door is often the faster opening, and knowing that before the van arrives saves a lap around the house.
The garage was made into a room and it is rented separately. Whose call is it?+
Whoever holds that door. A tenant in the converted room calls their own lockout and shows an ID with the address or a lease page on a phone. A rekey on that door is booked by the owner or by the manager acting for them. Saying which arrangement applies on the call keeps anybody from waiting on a person who was never going to be involved.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
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.