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Residential Locksmith in Pleasanton
The usual job in this city is not a broken lock. It is an inventory. A house that has been through one remodel keeps its entry on one key, the garage service door on another, the side gate on a third and the room over the garage on a fourth, and each of those keys is out with a different person. Fresh pins at $34–$52 a cylinder kill everything cut before today and put the set on one blank; the second and third cylinders cost less than the first, since nobody drives out twice. New hardware runs $132–$352. A keypad or app lock goes on a door that has been hung straight first, $208–$515, and its override blade is cut on the spot so you hold a key that works when the batteries do not. Up the hill the list stretches to a yard gate, a pool gate that has to latch itself, and a cellar last opened by the previous owners. In the condo blocks the metal half is still ours — unit door, mail lock, storage cage. A safe whose combination died, or was never handed over, is opened by hand in the room it stands in, $216–$570. No part goes onto any door in this house until it has been described to you and priced out loud.
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Residential services and their price ranges
All sixteen jobs are printed here, fourteen with ranges and two quoted once the doors have been walked. What moves a figure inside its range is which of the nine doors stopped you — a front door, a garage service door, a side gate, a pool gate, a cellar and a safe are six different pieces of work — and how long that particular door has gone unused. A front door somebody opens twice a day takes the low end. A gate latch nobody has walked through since last summer is dry, full of grit and often will not accept even the key that was cut for it, and that takes the time it is owed. Say which one stopped you and the range closes to a single figure.
Lock Rekeying
$34–$52 per cylinder$34–$52 per cylinder. The lock stays on the door and the pins inside it change, so everything cut before today turns into dead metal while the door looks exactly as it did. This is the job that empties the drawer of unmatched keys: entry, garage service door, side gate, pool gate, cellar and the office over the garage all answering one blank, which on a hill property is six or seven cylinders. The first cylinder carries the drive and the rest are cheaper for it, and a gate cylinder stiff from a year outdoors is cleaned and oiled in the same hour.
Details and pricingLock Replacement & Installation
$132–$352$132–$352. Deadbolts, knob sets, levers and gate latches, including the first proper deadbolt on a garage service door that has spent forty years on a knob latch alone. Where a seventies door has sagged, the hanging is corrected and the keeper repositioned before the new lock is even unwrapped; bolt anything shiny to a door that hangs badly and it dies exactly as its predecessor did. A pool gate is called out separately and treated as its own job: it has to swing, latch and lock by itself every single time.
Details and pricingSmart Lock Installation
$208–$515$208–$515. A keypad or app lock installed on a door that has been trued up first, with your codes entered, saved and tested twice at the door. Manufacturers ship the override blade uncut, which makes it useless; ours is cut beside the van and tested in the lock before anyone drives off, because that blade is the one that matters on the night the batteries quit. Separate codes for the cleaner, the gardener and the dog walker are why most people here buy one, and they are set up during the same visit.
Details and pricingSafe Opening
$216–$570$216–$570. A dial that no longer answers, bolt work that has jammed, or the safe left behind by the family who sold you the house. It is opened by hand in the room it stands in; nothing is loaded onto a truck. Closet safes, floor safes and the wall safe behind the office over the garage make up most of this work, and most of them come open with no drilling at all. Afterward you pick the new number, we keep no copy of it, and the sensible place to keep yours is a different room from the safe.
Details and pricingOn every job
Every Door on the Property
Four commitments written for a house with nine ways into it. Two of them are numbers and two are rules, and all four are spoken while you are still on the phone — never discovered later, on a driveway, with a technician already unpacking.
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Name the door, and say how long since anyone used it
Pleasanton, whatever the hour, every day of the year. An entry in the tracts, a seized gate latch on a hill street, a pool gate, a safe left behind by the last owners, a shop door on Main, a car sitting in the Stoneridge lot — that is what decides the work, and the work decides the figure. You get that figure on this call with the $89 drive and the clock already inside it, and it is the figure on the invoice. Ninety days on the labor, in writing. The van is a few doors off Main.