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Diablo: the oldest doors in this coverage, on narrow lanes at the foot of the mountain
The small unincorporated settlement east toward the mountain: houses that go back to the early part of the last century standing among later ones, narrow lanes under mature trees, and a country club at the middle of it. Twenty-two minutes from the van.
~22 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
No doors in this coverage have counted as many summers as the ones out here, and that shows up twice on the same visit. It shows in the hardware, which on the older houses is a heavy case buried in the edge of the leaf behind a long plate, often with a lock that was made when someone expected to service it rather than throw it away. Those are stripped, cleaned, re-sprung and repinned at $31 to $49 per cylinder far more often than they are taken off. And it shows in the leaf, which has spent a century growing in July and shrinking in January and now sits low enough that the bolt has to be helped into its keeper. That part is joinery rather than locksmithing, it happens in the same appointment, and swapping the lock would change nothing about it. When a case really is cracked or the maker has been gone for two generations, replacement runs $139 to $359 and goes into an old stile slowly. A house lockout is $145 to $265, and the lanes are tight enough that the technician often carries the case the last stretch on foot.
Say whether the front door has a modern deadbolt or an old case set into the edge of the leaf with a long plate, and whether the key is a flat modern one or an older shape, so the right cylinders and springs are on the van the first time. Say too whether a van can stop near the house or has to sit on the lane.
Diablo sits at the edge of the map the van covers, so arrival runs about 22 minutes. Every service and price on this site applies there, with nothing added for the distance.
Nearby
Over the hill, the same van
FAQ
Asked about Diablo
Our front door has a long plate on its edge and the lock buried inside it. Is that worth keeping?+
In most cases yes. A case of that kind was built to be opened up and put back together, so as long as the latch still springs and the bolt still throws its full length it gets serviced and repinned at $31 to $49 rather than binned. The judgment is made in front of you with the case out and laid flat, not guessed at from a description on the phone. A cracked casting or a spring that has gone dead moves it into the $139 to $359 replacement range, and at that point how the new one is fitted into an old stile matters more than whose name is on it.
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Tell us whether the door has to be pushed before it locks, and the call is short
Danville and the San Ramon Valley, at any hour. The condition of the door sets the work and the work sets the price, so you get one number on the phone with the $89 service call and the hour already inside it, and that number is what the receipt shows. Ninety days on the labor, in writing, covering the frame as well as the lock.