24/7 · van ~19 min out

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 in Danville

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 overview
Residential Locksmith in Danville

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 overview
Commercial Locksmith in Danville

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 overview
Automotive Locksmith in Danville

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 overview

Not sure which one fits? Say which of the three doors it is. The figure comes back either way.

(925) 431-6470

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.