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Albany locksmith service one city north, for bungalows and duplexes on the numbered blocks and the shops that keep Solano Ave awake
A city of under two square miles directly north of Berkeley: bungalows and duplexes on short blocks, the Solano Ave shopping street, apartment buildings under Albany Hill, and a quick run up from anywhere in Berkeley.
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17 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Albany housing is small, tight and often doubled up. A great many of these lots hold a duplex, an owner upstairs and a tenant down, or a bungalow with a converted unit at the back, which means two front doors and a shared entry porch on one address. The regular job is a rekey when a tenant changes, at $22 to $37 per cylinder, and the question worth asking is whether the shared porch door and the unit door can go onto one key. Usually they can. House lockouts are $109 to $189, and on the duplexes the technician needs to know which of the two doors is yours before knocking. Lock replacement is $105 to $285 per door, most often on a back door that has never been changed since the house was built.
Solano Ave supplies the commercial half: a long row of small independent shops and restaurants with glass doors that get cycled all day and closers that gradually stop finishing the job. Storefront work is $139 to $435. The apartment buildings on the streets below Albany Hill bring the buzzer panel and mailbox lock calls, which are quick pieces of work when the technician is already at the building. Car lockouts along Solano Ave and around the El Cerrito Plaza lot run $89 to $159. Arrival is about seventeen minutes by way of The Alameda or San Pablo Ave, a little more when Solano is closed for a street event.
On a duplex, say upper or lower unit and whether the porch or gate is locked, since two doors on one address is the usual cause of a technician standing at the wrong one.
Nearby
One street over, the same van
FAQ
Asked about Albany
How is Albany reached from Berkeley?+
Up San Pablo Ave or The Alameda, about seventeen minutes, and nothing is added to the figure for crossing the city line. The one predictable delay is a Solano Ave street closure: the shopping stretch runs through both cities, and an event on it pushes the traffic onto the short blocks either side.
Ours is a duplex with two front doors on one address. What do you need to know?+
Which unit is yours, upper or lower, and whether the shared porch or gate is locked at this hour. Two doors on one number is the usual reason a technician ends up knocking at the wrong one. If both units are yours, the porch cylinder and the unit cylinders can generally be keyed alike.
Do the apartment buildings below Albany Hill get the small jobs?+
Yes. Entry cylinders, buzzer panel locks and mailbox banks are quick work once the technician is at the building, and they are commonly added to a rekey already booked there. Each gets its own line inside the same agreed figure, so nothing appears on the receipt that was not named beforehand.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
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.