Services
Sixteen jobs we run across the valley, each with a published range
Sixteen jobs, fourteen of them with a range and two quoted once the openings have been counted on site. What moves a figure inside its range here is how far the door has walked away from its frame: a leaf and a strike still in line take the low end, a leaf that has moved with the season and a strike that has to be cut back into the jamb take the high one. Say how the door behaves when you pull it to, and the range closes to a single number on the call.

Emergency Locksmith
A front door that swung shut behind somebody carrying groceries up from the driveway. A side gate that latched itself and cannot be reached over. A key snapped in a cylinder that has been baking on a south wall since the tract went up. A car standing locked with the fob inside at the golf course lot, at a trailhead on the Iron Horse Trail or in the angle parking behind the Hartz Avenue shops. An office above a storefront at one in the morning. Picks, decoders and bypass tools come out ahead of anything destructive, so the door still has a lock in it when the van pulls away rather than a hole. Two boundaries get named in the first minute, not in your driveway. Garage door springs, cables, panels and opener motors are somebody else's trade and will be described as such. And when a door has been forced, the jamb, the strike and the cylinder are rebuilt on the same visit, each on its own line for whoever has to file the claim.
Emergency overviewHouse Lockout
$145–$265$145 to $265. Front doors, side gates, patio sliders and the door between the garage and the kitchen, opened without marking them, and a key cut at the curb so tonight is not a repeat. The $89 visit is inside that range and the hour is priced on the phone.
Car Lockout
$115–$219$115 to $219. Keys shut in the car at the golf course lot, at a trail crossing, on a long driveway or in the angle parking downtown. A bladder in the top corner and a long reach tool, and the paint and the weather seal come out of it untouched.
Business Lockout
$155–$285$155 to $285. A shop, an office over it, a stockroom or a rear exit, opened once a lease, a badge or the property manager has established who you are. A call answered between midnight and 7am carries $95, and you hear that number before anyone drives.
Post Break-In Lock Repair
$185–$489$185 to $489. The jamb rebuilt back to solid framing, a long strike anchored past the trim, a new cylinder, and a bolt with somewhere to land again. Done in one visit, with each part written on its own line because an insurer will ask for exactly that.

Residential Locksmith
The most common residential call in town is not a lost key. It is a door that stopped locking when the weather turned, and the answer is a plate and a couple of long screws rather than hardware. Rekeying comes next, usually within a month of escrow closing, and the version worth paying for puts the front door, the side gate and the door from the garage into the house on a single key at $31 to $49 per cylinder. After that come keypad locks going into leaves built decades before keypads existed, which is carpentry with a lock at the end of it. Safes turn up in studies and walk-in closets, holding a combination that left with the previous owner. Where a cylinder still has life in it, it gets new pins instead of a replacement, and you are told the make and model of anything that does go on before it goes on.
Residential overviewLock Rekeying
$31–$49 per cylinder$31 to $49 per cylinder. The hardware stays on the door and takes new pins, which kills every key handed out before today. Front door, side gate and the garage-to-house door end up on one blade. Cylinders after the first sit at the low end of that range, since the van is already parked at your house.
Lock Replacement & Installation
$139–$359$139 to $359. Deadbolts, handlesets and levers, fitted after the leaf has been squared, the hinges anchored into framing and the strike moved to meet the bolt. On a wide entry with a sidelight the stile gets measured before anything is cut, because that narrow strip of wood forgives nothing.
Smart Lock Installation
$215–$529$215 to $529. A keypad or app lock going into a door built long before keypads existed. A motor has no shoulder to lean on, so the hinges, the leaf and the strike are put right first and the electronics go on last. You pick the codes and punch them in yourself, and the override key comes off the machine in the van that day.
Safe Opening
$219–$589$219 to $589. A study or closet safe opened by feel where it stands, whether the combination walked out with the previous owner or the boltwork has jammed. Afterward it is set to a number of yours, and the sensible place to keep that number is not in the same room.

Commercial Locksmith
The old center runs to narrow shopfronts with offices on the floor above and back exits onto the service lane, and the hardware follows from that. Aluminum glass doors whose hookbolt stopped throwing once the frame took on the summer, deadlatches worn shallow enough that the door no longer holds itself, closers slamming hard enough that by autumn the strike is out of line. Exit devices on kitchens and rear doors, keypads and readers for a suite where a key has been out too long, master key systems for an owner with tenants on two floors. Master keying and access control are quoted only after the doors have been walked and counted, since a number given over the phone for a building nobody has seen is a guess wearing a suit. On an entrance the association owns, the authorization is confirmed first and you hear about it before a van is dispatched.
Commercial overviewMaster Key Systems
custom quotePriced after every opening has been walked and listed. One key above a key for each door, for an owner holding a Hartz Avenue building with shops below and offices over the top.
Panic Bars & Exit Devices
$335–$849$335 to $849 per door. Push bars and exit devices for shops, kitchens and the rear doors onto the service lane. Fitted new, rebuilt, or realigned so the latch drops into the keeper instead of dragging across its face.
Access Control
custom quotePriced after the doors have been counted. Keypads, readers, electric strikes and credentials for suites and small offices, and every leaf keeps a mechanical cylinder that still works when the power does not. On an association-owned entrance the board or the management company signs off before scheduling.
Storefront Door Locks
$175–$519$175 to $519. Aluminum glass doors downtown: a hookbolt that stopped throwing after a hot spell, a deadlatch worn shallow, a cylinder that binds every afternoon, a closer pulling the door out of square until nothing lines up with anything.

Automotive Locksmith
The car stays where it is: a long private driveway in Sycamore Valley, the lot at the golf course, a pull-off along the Iron Horse Trail, angle parking on Hartz Avenue, a visitor space inside a gated community once the entrance has been arranged. Most vehicles on these streets answer to a proximity fob rather than a blade, and the van carries programmers for them alongside blanks for the older trucks and the second car nobody drives. Your ID and the registration are read against the plate before the key machine is switched on. The van does not pack up until you have started the engine twice on the new key and worked the doors with it, and a key that has gone missing can be struck out of the vehicle memory the same afternoon.
Automotive overviewCar Key Replacement
$169–$455$169 to $455. A blade or proximity key cut and coded to the vehicle in the space it is parked in, and a spare made in the same session even when the last key is gone. Registration checked against the plate first.
Key Fob Programming
$99–$215$99 to $215. Vehicle remotes and proximity fobs coded at the car, and community gate remotes for a household that needs a second one. Your own fob is a household order. A change to the gate system itself goes through the association.
Ignition Repair
$199–$495$199 to $495. A cylinder that refuses to turn, or turns and leaves the dash dead, rebuilt or exchanged at the curb and matched to the door key already on your ring wherever the make permits it.
Motorcycle Keys
$135–$315$135 to $315. Bikes and scooters, blade cut from the lock code and the chip written at the roadside, with the seat and fork locks checked on the same key.
Not sure which one fits? Say which of the three doors it is. The figure comes back either way.
(925) 431-6470Open 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.