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Walnut Creek: twenty-four minutes north, older ranch streets, apartment turnovers and glass doors on a hot afternoon
The city north up the valley past Alamo: mid-century ranch houses on shaded streets, condominium and apartment blocks that change hands steadily, and a commercial core of glass doors and suites. Twenty-four minutes from the van.
~24 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
The run north takes twenty-four minutes and the doors at the end of it fail the way they do at home, because the weather does not stop at a city sign. Mid-century houses here carry hardware that has been through fifty or sixty summers, and the calls are the familiar ones: a bolt that no longer meets its keeper, a key that wants the door pulled toward it, a household that has been shouldering a leaf for a month. Alignment is the work and the existing lock usually stays on the door. Where a cylinder has genuinely reached its end, replacement is $139 to $359 and repinning is $31 to $49 per cylinder, which is also what a rekey costs on the day a condominium or an apartment turns over. A house lockout is $145 to $265. On the commercial side the heat does its work on aluminum and glass, so a front that locks in the morning and refuses at closing is storefront hardware at $175 to $519 per opening and a business lockout is $155 to $285. Nothing is added for the drive, and the evening $55 or the overnight $95 is inside the figure before you agree to it.
For a house, say the era and which door stopped you, and give a cross street. For a condominium or an apartment, say whether the door is your own or one the building shares, since a shared entrance has to be ordered by the owner or the manager. For a shop, say what time you lock up.
Walnut Creek sits at the edge of the map the van covers, so arrival runs about 24 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 Walnut Creek
Is the price different because you are driving up from Danville?+
The figures are identical. A door twenty-four minutes north is quoted from the ranges printed on this site, with the $89 counted in and the clock added if it is late, and if the drive runs long on the night the number you agreed to stands anyway. The only thing worth deciding is whether you would rather wait the twenty-four minutes or call somebody closer, and you are given the honest figure to decide with.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
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.