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Alamo locksmith for the estate lots off Danville Blvd, where the gate, the guest house and the barn all want to be on one key
The unincorporated estate town south along Danville Blvd: large lots, entry gates, guest houses and driveways long enough that the front door is not visible from the road.
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20 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Alamo is about twenty minutes down Danville Blvd or I-680, and the properties change what a job looks like. A single address can hold a main house, a guest house or pool house, a detached garage, a workshop and a gate at the road, and each of them arrived with its own key from its own decade. The most requested job is not an emergency at all: put the whole property on one key, with a second key that opens the guest quarters only, at $23 to $39 per cylinder. That takes a walk around the property first, which is included in the visit, and the count is agreed before anything is turned. Where a gate has a keypad and the code was set by a contractor who has moved on, it is reset and written down for the owner on the same trip.
Lockouts here take longer to reach than the drive suggests, because the gate is at the road and the door is two hundred yards past it. Say on the call whether the gate can be opened from a phone, whether there is a keypad, or whether someone will walk down to meet the van, and the arrival estimate accounts for it. A house lockout is $115 to $195 and the door is opened without damage first. Round Hill and the streets above it have safes that came with the house, and a dial that will not track or a combination left with a previous owner is a safe opening at $175 to $495, done in daylight and by appointment. Smart locks on a guest wing, set up with codes that expire when a visitor leaves, run $169 to $430.
Tell us how the van gets past the gate and roughly how far the door is from the road, and if the property has more than one building say which one the work is at, since on these lots that decides the whole visit.
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Twenty minutes to Alamo. Does that include getting through the gate?+
No, and it is worth saying plainly. Twenty covers the run down Danville Blvd or I-680 to the road. What follows depends on your gate: a code, an app, or somebody walking down to meet the van. Say which on the call and the arrival window is built to include that time rather than pretending it away.
There are several buildings on the property. How is that quoted?+
By the cylinder, after a walk around the property with you, and the count is agreed before anything is turned. The usual Alamo job is one key for the main house, garage and workshop, with a second key that opens the guest quarters alone. The walk-through is part of the visit and is not billed as an extra.
What about a safe that came with the house and no combination?+
That is a daytime appointment rather than an emergency. Most residential safes open without cutting into them: the dial is manipulated or the lock bypassed, then the lock is serviced and set to a combination you pick on the spot. It is quoted inside the published safe range once the make and the door are described on the call.
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One call, one whole number, anywhere in the valley
Calls answered 24/7. The visit, the labor and the parts are inside the figure you hear, and that figure is the one on the receipt. Ninety days on the workmanship.