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Tennyson and Southgate locksmith calls for apartments, fourplexes and buzzer doors, where most of the doors on the street are rented
Tennyson Road and the blocks around Southgate and South Hayward BART: two- and three-story apartment blocks, fourplexes on the side streets, courtyards with a gate and a buzzer panel, carports at the back, unit numbers that do not follow the street, and the largest share of renters in the city.
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26 min
Avg. arrival
$89
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24/7
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Twenty-six minutes out Mission or Tennyson, and the calls here run late because the shifts do. A building on these blocks has a street gate on a code or a key, a buzzer panel by it, a courtyard or a walkway, and unit doors with a knob and, in the better buildings, a deadbolt. Most lockouts start at the gate rather than at the door: it swings shut on its closer behind someone carrying laundry to the carport, and the key is on the counter upstairs. A unit lockout is $115 to $199 with the gate included, and the lock is picked open, because the cylinder belongs to the owner and a drilled one becomes an argument the tenant should never have to have. An ID and the lease on a phone are asked for at the door. Renting is not a smaller kind of ownership of your own front door, and it is not treated as one.
The building doors themselves are the other half of the work. A buzzer door that no longer latches is the fault reported most on Tennyson, and it is seldom the lock. It is a closer that has lost its pressure, a strike out of line by a quarter inch, a deadlatch plunger riding on the edge of the keeper instead of the face of it, or a hinge that has dropped over twenty years. Those are adjusted, and adjusting is cheaper than replacing; a technician who reaches for a new lock first has not looked at the door. Where the electric strike buzzes but the door will not release, the fault may be in the wiring rather than in the hardware, and that is said plainly rather than billed as a lock. Storefront and entry door work is $145 to $429.
For owners and managers, the rhythm is turnovers. A rekey is $24 to $39 per cylinder, and several units in one building sit inside one figure with the $89 visit counted once. Where a building has a laundry room, a gate and a mailbox in the entry that belongs to the building, those cylinders are counted too, and a small master key system so one key runs the manager's round is quoted for the building rather than priced off a list. The itemized receipt goes to whatever email the owner uses, and a written line naming the address, the unit and who received which keys comes with it. Evening calls carry $45 inside the figure between 8pm and midnight, $80 after, and the South Hayward BART lot brings car lockouts at $95 to $185.
Give the unit number and say which gate or stair it belongs to; the numbering in these buildings rarely follows the street. Say whether the trouble is the street gate, the buzzer door or your own door, because that decides who authorizes the work.
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FAQ
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The courtyard gate latched behind me and my own door is on the other side of it. Is that two jobs?+
One. The gate is opened as part of the unit lockout at $115 to $199, not billed separately, because a gate between you and your door is simply part of the door. Say on the call whether the gate is on a key, a code or a buzzer release, and whether a neighbor can hold it, so the technician is not standing outside a second lock.
Unit numbers in these buildings do not follow the street. What do you need?+
The unit number and the stair or gate it belongs to, plus a building name if there is one on the wall. In a three-story block with a courtyard, 14 can be nowhere near 13. Give it once on the call and the van goes to the right walkway instead of circling a block at eleven at night with a case in hand.
Calls here run late because the shifts do. Is there an hour you stop?+
No. Nothing here shuts between one day and the next, and the end of a swing shift is the busiest stretch of the week on these blocks. What the clock changes is the figure, and it changes before you agree to anything: $45 folded in between 8pm and midnight, $80 between midnight and 7am. The receipt shows the same number the call did.
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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.