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Northgate locksmith for the subdivisions climbing Ygnacio Valley Rd, where the door from the garage is the one that shuts behind you
Family subdivisions from the 1970s through the 1990s along the upper end of Ygnacio Valley Rd, with wide driveways, side gates and a garage entry door nobody thinks about until it locks.
4.9 / 5· 187 reviews from Walnut Creek & the Diablo Valley
18 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Northgate runs north-east up Ygnacio Valley Rd toward the Mt Diablo State Park gate, and the housing is consistent enough that the calls repeat. Two-story tract homes with an attached garage, a side gate to the yard and a slider onto the patio. The lockout is almost never the front door. Someone goes down to the garage for a bag, the interior door swings shut on a spring hinge, the front is bolted and the side gate is latched from the yard side. That is a house lockout at $115 to $195, and the interior door usually opens without a mark on it. Arrival is about eighteen minutes, a little more between three and four when Northgate High lets out onto Castle Rock Rd.
The planned work here is mostly keys and counting. A family that has been in the house twenty years has handed keys to a house sitter, two contractors and a neighbor who moved away in 2019. A whole-house rekey at $23 to $39 per cylinder puts the front, the back, the garage entry and the side gate padlock on one key and ends the accounting. Builder-grade knobs from the original construction wear to the point where a similar key will turn them, and replacement runs $109 to $295 per door. Households with teenagers coming home before the parents do tend to ask about a keypad instead of a key under a pot, and a smart lock installed and set up with codes that can be revoked is $169 to $430.
Say whether the way in should be the front door, the garage entry or the side gate, and mention if a dog is in the yard, since the side gate is often the fastest route and the technician will not open it blind.
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FAQ
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Why eighteen minutes when Northgate looks close on a map?+
The run is the length of Ygnacio Valley Rd, and the lights at Oak Grove, Cowell and Bancroft set the pace rather than the distance does. Add a few minutes between three and four when school traffic fills Castle Rock Rd. The window you are quoted is built from the traffic at that moment, not from a monthly average.
The door I am locked out of is the one from the garage. Does that change anything?+
Not the price, and rarely the method. Interior garage doors carry a light bore lock or a spring latch and open without a mark on them. What is worth saying on the call is whether the garage door itself is up, because a closed garage means the technician works the front door or the side gate instead.
Can the side gate padlock go on the house key?+
On most of them, yes. A padlock with a replaceable core, or a new one cut to your existing bitting, joins the front, back and garage entry on a single key during a rekey. It is one more line on the same visit rather than a second appointment, and it ends the habit of hiding a gate key in the yard.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
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.