About
A locksmith whose rate before you commit.
Mobile across Berkeley and the cities along its edges, any hour, with the figure agreed before the technician touches the lock. Here is how a visit runs and what is put in writing.
Campanile Lock & Key is a mobile locksmith for Berkeley and the north East Bay, named after Sather Tower, the clock tower on the campus that a good half of the city can see from its own front steps. There is no shop, because locks are not brought to a counter; the van goes to the door, the car or the storefront. It carries what Berkeley doors take: mortise cases, levers and spindles for brown-shingle and Craftsman fronts, warded keys for skeleton-key interior doors, aluminum deadlatches and hookbolts for glass shop doors, strike plates and jamb reinforcement, keypad locks, exit devices, and blanks and programmers for most cars on the road. Calls are answered 24/7, nights, weekends and holidays included.
Pricing is arranged so you can check the arithmetic yourself. Every job carries an $89 service call, and it is counted inside the figure you agree to rather than added at the end. A house lockout runs $109 to $189, a rekey $22 to $37 per cylinder, new hardware $105 to $285 per door, a car key $135 to $375. An 8pm to midnight arrival adds $35 and a midnight to 7am arrival adds $70, both stated inside the total before you say yes. Master key systems and access control are quoted in writing after the doors have been walked, because those depend on how many doors exist and who should open which. Once the figure is agreed, that is the figure on the card.
Coverage runs the full width of the city and a little beyond it. Downtown sees the van in about 12 minutes, Southside and Telegraph 14, North Berkeley 15, Elmwood and West Berkeley 16, Thousand Oaks and Westbrae 18, Claremont 20. The Berkeley Hills are honestly slower, around 26 minutes, because the streets above Grizzly Peak Blvd double back on themselves and many houses sit a stair flight above the road. Across the whole 18 square miles the average is 19 minutes. Albany, Kensington, El Cerrito, Emeryville and the Richmond Annex are served at the same figures, between 17 and 24 minutes, and for any of these the window given on the call is the number worth planning around.
The Agreed-First Price
Four commitments made before a tool comes out of the van, and kept through the receipt.
- The visit
- $89, already inside
- The labour
- All of it
- The parts fitted
- Named before work starts
- Added later
- Nothing
The service call is counted within the figure you agree to. It is never a separate line that appears once the door is open.
Picking, decoding, cutting, pinning, fitting and adjusting the door until it closes properly. No hourly clock and no charge for a second attempt.
Cylinders, deadbolts, latches, pins, strike plates, cut and programmed keys. You are told which parts and what they cost while you are still on the call.
No mileage up the hill, no fee for long stairs or a side gate. Evening and overnight hours are stated inside the figure at the time you agree to it.
Where we work
Berkeley & the north East Bay, any hour
Pick your area for its own arrival time and the jobs we run there most.
24/7 — nights, weekends & holidays
One call, one figure, agreed before the work starts
Calls answered 24/7 across Berkeley and the north East Bay. The $89 service call, the labour and the parts are inside the number you agree to, and nothing is added to it afterwards.