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Residential Locksmith in Danville

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.

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Residential Locksmith by Magee in Danville

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Residential services and their price ranges

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.

Lock 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Frame Gets Looked At First

Four rules that behave the same on a Greenbrook tract house, a wide entry off Sycamore Valley Road, a gate fob in Blackhawk and a glass shop door on Hartz Avenue. Labor carries ninety days, written on the receipt where you can read it.

The strike and the hinges get settled before anyone sells you hardware. A bolt that will not go home is usually a bolt arriving at the wrong height, and a new lock repeats the miss for more money. So the leaf is checked for square, hinge screws are driven long enough to bite framing, a shim goes behind the top hinge on a door that has dropped, and the strike is relocated with its mortise recut so the bolt falls straight through. A good share of these calls end right there, with no lock leaving the van. When one is genuinely needed you hear the reason, and it goes onto a door that can hold it.

One figure, and the clock is already in it. What you hear on the phone covers the visit, the labor and the parts together, with the $89 service call built in rather than waiting underneath. Arrive between 8pm and midnight and the figure carries $55, between midnight and 7am $95, and you learn that while you are still deciding. A jamb softer than it looked, a hinge screw stripped by somebody years ago, a strike mortise cut in the wrong place at the factory: none of it reopens the arithmetic.

On a community gate, the question of who may order the work comes first. A fob, a remote or a key for your own house is yours to order and yours to pay for. Anything on a shared entrance, an entry gate, a pool door or a mail enclosure belongs to the association, and the board or the management company authorizes it, not the resident who happens to be standing at it. That gets asked on the phone rather than at the gate, so nobody drives out to a job that cannot legally start. Blackhawk and Crow Canyon Country Club both run this way, and so do the smaller gated streets.

Ninety days, which here reaches into the next change of season. Ninety days on the work, and the warranty follows the carpentry as much as the lock. A relocated strike and a shimmed hinge are workmanship like anything else, so a door that closed cleanly in spring and starts catching again inside that window brings the van back at no charge. Parts carry the maker's own term. Everything is itemized on a receipt that lands in your email, and an owner, a manager or an insurer can be sent a written description whenever one is asked for.

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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.

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