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Mountain View locksmith visits: newer blocks with gates and lobbies, older houses on the streets behind
The town immediately west, reached along Central Expressway or El Camino Real. Newer apartment and condominium blocks near the transit corridor, older single-story houses on the quiet streets behind them, small businesses on the shopping blocks between. Twenty-one minutes from Moffett Park, priced from the same list used across Sunnyvale.
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21 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Two quite different jobs share this map. The newer blocks near the corridor are built like the towers on our north edge: vehicle gate, lobby reader, podium roller, elevator on a credential, parcel room by the mail alcove. A unit lockout is $125 to $219 with the gate and the lobby inside it, and shared access work is $149 to $429 whether the fault is a reader, a maglock that will not drop, a request-to-exit sensor, a call box or a batch of fobs that has to be cleared after somebody moves out. The rule about who books does not change on this side of the line: your unit door and your fob are yours, and the gate, the lobby, the parcel room and the amenity rooms go through the association or its manager.
Behind them the streets are houses, mostly single-story, built across the fifties and sixties on lots wide enough for a driveway down one side. What is on the doors is the builder package plus whatever an owner added later, which is why the bolt and its keeper so often disagree by an eighth of an inch and the door has to be shouldered before it will lock. That is an alignment job, not a new lock. Rekeying is $28 to $45 per cylinder with the front, the back, the garage side door and the yard gate quoted together. A house lockout is $125 to $219 and the lock survives it. Identification is asked for at the door, and the question is put in the same words to a renter as to an owner. A lock replacement is $125 to $315 per door and a smart lock is $189 to $469.
The shopping blocks are the third piece: narrow frontages, aluminum doors, closers nobody has adjusted since the last delivery caught one, and a service door at the rear. A business lockout is $139 to $249, storefront door locks are $165 to $469 per opening, and an exit device that has truly given up is $299 to $769. Cars in the structures and at the curb are $105 to $199 to open, $89 to $195 for a fob programmed at the vehicle, and $159 to $399 for a key made from scratch on site. Twenty-one minutes is the estimate and the expressway at five is what stretches it, which is mentioned while the figure is being given rather than after. Evening carries $50 and overnight $85, both already inside.
Say whether the address is a unit in a block with a gate and a lobby, a house on a side street, or a business on a shopping block. In a building, give the unit number and name the opening that failed, and let the manager or the association make the call when the opening is a shared one.
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Is the price different because this is outside Sunnyvale?+
No. The same list applies and there is no charge for the distance. The only thing that changes is the estimate, which runs about twenty-one minutes rather than fifteen. Central Expressway at five is what stretches it, and if the drive is going to be long you are told before you agree to anything.
Which jobs come out of here most?+
Two clusters that barely overlap. Blocks near the transit corridor call about gates, lobby readers and fobs, priced at $149 to $429 and ordered by the association or its manager. The older streets behind them call about bolts that no longer meet their keeper, which is an alignment job rather than a new lock, and about rekeys after a sale.
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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.