Pricing
Cylinders, readers, gate boards and car keys, all on one list.
Every job is priced from the list below, including the access work most locksmiths quote instead of pricing. Say which opening it is and the figure is settled on the call, with the after-hours hour already inside it. The list runs from a single cylinder up to a gate operator, and nothing on it is held back for a site visit except a master key schedule, which has to be walked and counted first.
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A range narrows on three answers, and none of them is your address
A rekey on a Cherry Chase ranch door and a gate board on Wolfe Road are not the same amount of work, so the list carries ranges. Three answers turn a range into the single number you agree to.
Which opening it actually is
A cylinder in a bored door, a lobby reader holding a maglock, a request-to-exit sensor over a corridor leaf, a call box on a pedestal, a gate operator board, a keypad deadbolt on a townhome in Lakewood. Say which link in the chain stopped and the range closes, because the tool, the stock on the van and the time on site all follow from that one answer.
Who is entitled to order it
Your own unit door and your own fob are yours to arrange, and nobody is contacted about you. A street gate, a lobby, a parcel room, a laundry or a gym belongs to the building, so a manager, an owner or an HOA board has to be the one asking. Settling that on the call is what keeps a job from stalling halfway through in a hallway.
Which hour the call lands in
Saturdays, Sundays and holidays cost what a Tuesday costs. Only the clock moves anything: +$50 between 8pm and midnight, +$85 between midnight and 7am, folded in before a figure is spoken. A late call in a city of swing crews and red-eyes sits higher inside its published range and never above the top of it.
FAQ
What people ask about the bill
Do you actually work gates, lobby readers and fobs, or only keys?+
Both, and the access side is the bigger half of the week here. Gate operators and loop detectors, call boxes, keypads, lobby fob readers, maglocks, electric strikes, request-to-exit sensors, elevator floor restriction, garage clickers, and enrolling or removing fobs as people move in and out. It is priced like any other job at $149 to $429 with the $89 visit inside that, rather than sent away for a quote. The van carries reader stock, gate boards, strikes and blank fobs alongside cylinders and pins, because on these streets the thing that stopped you is as likely to be electric as mechanical.
Does the clock change the figure, and do weekends?+
Saturday, Sunday and holidays cost what a Wednesday afternoon costs. Only the clock changes anything: $50 between 8pm and midnight, $85 between midnight and 7am. Both are folded in before you hear a figure, so nothing appears later. A house lockout that is $125 in daylight comes back as $175 at eleven at night and $210 at four in the morning, all of it still inside the published range of $125 to $219. Given how many people here work swings and red-eyes, the late call is treated as the normal call it is.
A tenant moved out and still has a working fob. Can you take it off the system?+
Yes, and it is worth doing the day the keys come back rather than the month the audit happens. A fob is a credential in a panel, not a key, so removing it takes the panel and the authority to use it, which means a manager, an owner or the HOA. What comes back is a list of what is live and what was removed, unit by unit, so the record is not just in someone's memory. The same visit can enroll the incoming resident, add or drop an elevator floor, and set the parcel room and amenity rooms to match. That work sits in the $149 to $429 band with the visit inside it.
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Say which opening stopped you, hear the figure, and get through it
Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Cupertino, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Alviso, 24/7, holidays included. A gate, a lobby reader, a fob, a unit door, a shop front, a car or a safe: one figure comes back with the $89 visit and the hour already inside it. Your own door and your own fob are yours to arrange; a shared opening takes a word from the manager or the HOA, and that gets sorted while you are still on the phone.