Lock Replacement & Installation in Pleasanton
$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.
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$132–$352
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19 min
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Two jobs share this page. One is plain replacement, where a cylinder or a whole lock has gone past the point where fresh pins do any good. The other is fitting a real lock to a door that has never carried one, and on a property with nine doors there is nearly always a candidate.
The candidates repeat themselves. A garage service door on a passage latch, which parks the weakest hardware on the lot behind the one door that opens from a button in a car. A cellar shut with a hasp and a hardware-store padlock that rusted open years ago. A pool gate on a latch with no key at all. A mail block at the road whose cylinder was already tired when the current owners moved in. A side gate kept alive with a squirt of oil twice a year. Each is a short visit, and each changes the arithmetic at that door more than anything else on this site.
Which door it is also decides what gets fitted, because outdoor hardware and indoor hardware are not interchangeable. A gate cylinder and a pool gate padlock live in weather, so they go in with a stainless shackle, a brass plug and a cover over the keyway, while the same money spent on indoor-grade hardware out there buys the identical call again in two years. That is why a gate sits higher in the range than a front door, and why the age of what comes off matters as much as the price of what goes on.
Measuring comes before buying, because an older leaf agrees with very little. Some are thin. A backset of two and three eighths meets a lock built for two and three quarters. The cross bore is often narrower than the two and one eighth inches current hardware is machined for. Where a bore has to be opened out or a leaf plated, that part happens first and gets shown to you before a single screw is driven.
Talking you out of a purchase is part of the job. A key that has begun to need a shoulder behind it is often a cylinder asking for a strip and a clean, or a strike that has crept as the frame settled. Both belong to a visit, not to a shopping trip. The test takes ten seconds and you can run it yourself. Open the door wide and turn the key. If it still fights you with the leaf swinging free, the cylinder is at fault. If it turns sweetly open and binds the instant the door is shut, the lock is healthy and the frame has moved, which is the fault seen most often on doors around Mission Park and Val Vista.
Fitted, hardware included, this is $132 to $352 with the call inside it. A cylinder dropped into a preparation that already suits it is $132. Weather-rated gate hardware, a deadbolt in a cellar door that has never been bored, a handleset, or two doors on one stop climbs toward $352. After eight that $132 job is $184, and midnight to seven it is $226. Make, grade and finish are named out loud while the old lock is still screwed to the door, keys are cut at the van and pinned to the rest of the house if that is what you want, and whatever came off stays with you unless you ask for it to go. Ninety days of warranty rides with the work.
“Seventies house, and for the best part of a year the front door had wanted a hip putting into it before the deadbolt would turn. My mother could not lock it at all, which is what finally turned a habit into a job. $318 covered the front door and the garage service door together — the first company I rang had asked $505 for the same two. The surprise was the order of the work. Twenty minutes went on the door itself before a lock came out of its box — packing behind the upper hinge, the keeper repositioned lower and further in, screws long enough to bite the stud instead of the casing — and the new deadbolt went on last of all. It shuts and locks with a fingertip now. He also flagged that the garage service door had nothing but a knob latch on it, which he says is how most burglaries on streets like ours actually happen, so that got a real deadbolt as well and both doors share one key. He looked at the side gate for nothing and told me it wants cleaning rather than replacing, which I have since booked in.”
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.
- Daytime (7am–8pm)standard rates
- Evening (8pm–12am)+$52
- Overnight (12am–7am)+$94
FAQ
Lock Replacement & Installation: quick answers
The padlock on our side gate is seized. Replace it, or is there something better?+
Replace it, and with the right thing. A gate lock lives outdoors and gets opened maybe twenty times a year, which is the worst pairing there is: long enough between turns to dry out, wet enough to corrode. A shrouded shackle with a brass plug in a welded staple answers it, pinned to the house key wherever the keyway allows. Fitted, that falls inside $132 to $352, which is $184 after eight and $226 overnight.
The key only goes around if I lean my weight on it. Is that lock finished?+
Maybe not, and the test costs nothing. Swing the door wide and turn the key. Resistance with the leaf free points at a cylinder that is dirty or worn, which may want no more than a clean and fresh pins at $34 to $52. A key that turns easily open and binds once the door is shut says the lock is fine and the frame has settled, and that is an adjustment inside a visit.
The cylinder in our mail block at the road is finished. Can it be changed without touching the rest?+
Usually, yes. A cylinder matched on size, cam and tailpiece drops into the preparation that is already cut, and the block, the post and the door around it stay as they are. Keys get cut on the spot. If that block serves more than your own house, authority to order the work is settled on the call first, because it is not this shop's place to decide that for you.
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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.