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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.
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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FAQ
Asked before the call, answered here
How quickly does the van reach my part of Walnut Creek?+
The citywide average is 18 minutes. Downtown and Broadway Plaza usually see the van in about 12, Walnut Heights in 14, Parkmead in 15, Saranap and Ygnacio Valley in 16, Northgate in 18 and Shadelands in 20. Rossmoor runs closer to 24 because the gate check-in is the longest of any address in town, and the streets above Castle Rock Rd take longer again for the climb and the driveways. Alamo is around 20, Pleasant Hill 16, Lafayette 18, Concord 20 and Danville 22. A slow stretch on I-680 or Ygnacio Valley Rd shows up in the window you are given, which is set from the traffic at that moment rather than from an average.
What is The Whole-Number Promise?+
It means the figure you are given on the call is complete. The $89 service call, the labor, the hardware fitted and any evening or overnight difference are all inside it, stated once as a single number. That number is what the card is charged. It moves only if you ask for something additional while the technician is there, such as rekeying a second door after a lockout, and that addition is named and agreed as its own line before the work on it begins.
Do evenings, weekends and holidays cost more?+
Weekends and holidays are charged at the same daytime figures. Arrivals between 8pm and midnight add $40 and arrivals between midnight and 7am add $75, and both are folded into the number before you agree to anything. So a $120 house lockout is $160 in the evening and $195 overnight, and the receipt shows that same total with nothing appended at the door.
How does a visit to Rossmoor work?+
Give the manor or co-op address and the entry you use, and the van goes through the gate check-in like any other visitor, which is why Rossmoor is quoted at about 24 minutes instead of the citywide 18. Daytime visits are preferred and easiest for everyone. The van carries lever handles, easy-turn thumbturns and low-effort deadbolts that suit hands that have had enough of stiff hardware and that sit within the community's hardware standards. If the mutual or the HOA needs paperwork, the emailed receipt names the hardware fitted and describes the work in a line you can forward.
Will my lock have to be drilled?+
Almost never, and never as a first move. Deadbolts, lever sets, apartment cylinders, storefront hookbolts, most safes and most car doors open with picks, decoders, bypass tools and air wedges, and the hardware still works when the door is open. If a cylinder is broken, seized or high-security enough that clean entry fails, the technician explains what drilling would mean and what replacing the cylinder costs before touching it, and the figure stays where it was set on the call. If we cannot get you in at all, nothing is charged.
What do I need to show before a door or a car is opened?+
For a house or condo, photo ID with that address, or ID plus a lease, a utility bill or mail on your phone when the ID address is older than the move. For a car, ID plus the registration or an insurance card, digital is fine. For a suite, shop or office, ID plus a lease, a business license, or confirmation from the owner or the property manager. It takes a minute and it is the reason the work is worth anything.
Can the original hardware in a 1950s Walnut Heights or Parkmead house be kept?+
Usually, yes. Mid-century knob sets, mortise bodies and screen-door latches can be rekeyed, cleaned, re-sprung and adjusted on site, and worn springs and cylinders are often replaceable from the van. When a case is cracked or the parts have simply stopped existing, a modern body can be fitted into the original door cut so the trim, plates and door itself stay untouched. Which of those makes sense is discussed at the door, with the figure agreed before anything is unscrewed.
How are master key systems and access control priced for a Shadelands or Ygnacio Valley building?+
Both are quoted in writing after someone has walked the doors, because a suite with four doors and a building with forty are not the same job and no published range would tell you the truth about either. The walk-through covers the door count, the existing cylinders, who needs to open what, and whether readers and fobs make more sense than keys for the tenants who turn over. You get an itemized quote with a per-door breakdown, and that quote is what gets invoiced. Weekend and after-hours work in an empty building is arranged in advance at the same figures.
24/7 — nights, weekends & holidays
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.