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Thousand Oaks and Westbrae locksmith work near Solano Ave and Indian Rock, where the back door and the garage need the attention
Bungalows from the 1920s to the 1940s on family streets in the north-west corner of the city, Solano Ave shops at one end, Indian Rock Park at the other, and detached garages that were never keyed to the house.
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18 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
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The pattern repeats house to house on these blocks. A front door that somebody upgraded with a decent deadbolt, a kitchen door onto the yard still wearing its original knob and nothing else, and a garage at the end of the driveway held by a hasp, a worn cam lock or a length of wire. The calls come for the second and third of those, not the first. Lock replacement runs $105 to $285 per door; a rekey that finally brings the house, the back door and the garage side door onto a single key is $22 to $37 per cylinder. Where a jamb has been forced or a bolt bent, repair with a long strike plate and three-inch screws into the framing is $149 to $399, and the screws are the part that matters.
These are households with children, bicycles and a spare key that has lived under a flowerpot for eleven years. A smart lock on the door the family actually uses, at $165 to $420, ends the flowerpot arrangement and lets a grandparent or a sitter have a code instead. Solano Ave gives the district its commercial work, small shops and a cinema behind glass doors that need alignment more often than replacement, at $139 to $435. Weekend car lockouts happen at Indian Rock Park and up around Codornices, where people park on a slope and leave the key in the cupholder, at $89 to $159. Arrival is about eighteen minutes.
Tell us whether the garage has a hasp, a knob or a side door with its own cylinder, and whether the driveway is shared with the neighbor, so the right hardware is on the van the first time.
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One street over, the same van
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Eighteen minutes to Westbrae: what is the route?+
Up San Pablo Ave or The Alameda, depending on where the van is when you call. The delay to watch for is Solano Ave closed for a street event, which turns a straight run into a detour around it. That is said before you agree to a window rather than after the window has gone.
The garage at the end of the driveway has never had a real lock. What goes on it?+
It depends what is there now. A hasp takes a shrouded padlock, a side door with a cylinder can be rekeyed onto the house key at $22 to $37, and a worn cam lock is replaced at $105 to $285. Tell us which of the three you have and the right parts ride out on the first visit.
We still keep a key under a pot by the back step. What replaces that?+
A keypad lock on the door the family actually uses, at $165 to $420, with a code for a sitter or a grandparent that can be removed again later. The original deadbolt comes off into a labeled bag rather than a bin. Every other door stays mechanical, which is what most households here want.
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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.