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Residential Locksmith in Cupertino

Three kinds of house sit inside the city limits and they fail in three different ways. The Rinconada grid, 1,562 small houses built between 1950 and 1953, still carries a great deal of original knob hardware with no deadbolt above it and a bore too narrow for anything on a shelf today. The Fairgrove Eichlers of 1960 and 1961 put an atrium gate in front of the entry, which means two doors to settle and a glass wall beside them that decides what can be cut. Everything from about 2000 arrived with a keypad and a code chosen by somebody who does not live there. Across all three the commonest job is the same: bring the front door, the atrium gate and the garage service door onto one key at $29 to $47 per cylinder, and put a real deadbolt where a house has only ever had a latch. Cylinders are repinned rather than replaced whenever there is life left in them, and any part going on is named before it goes on.

from $29/cyl

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Residential Locksmith by Orchard Gate in Cupertino

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Residential services and their price ranges

All sixteen jobs are printed here, fourteen with ranges and two quoted once the doors have been counted on site. What moves a figure inside its range is the door, not the lock: a leaf that still hangs true takes the low end, a leaf that has dropped on its hinges or carries a narrower old bore takes the high one. Describe the door on the call and the range closes to one figure.

Lock Rekeying

$29–$47 per cylinder

$29 to $47 per cylinder. The lock stays on the door and takes new pins, which retires every key handed out before today. Front door, atrium gate and garage service door on one key. The second cylinder costs less than the first because the van is already at your curb.

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Lock Replacement & Installation

$129–$339

$129 to $339. Deadbolts, knob sets and levers, including a first real deadbolt on a house that has only ever had a latch. Where the bore is narrower than the modern standard it is opened to size and the leaf checked for square before anything is screwed down.

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Smart Lock Installation

$199–$495

$199 to $495. A keypad or app lock set into a door that has been made ready for it: bore trued, backset corrected, hinges and strike brought back in line, then the lock. Codes you choose, entered twice while the technician is still there, and the override key cut at the van the same day.

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Safe Opening

$205–$549

$205 to $549. A safe worked open by feel where it stands, whether the combination is gone or the bolts have jammed, then set to a number you pick and keep nowhere near it.

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On every job

The Door First

Four things that hold the same way on a 1951 house on the Rinconada grid, an atrium gate in Fairgrove, a keypad on a rebuild off Bubb Road and a glass shop door on Stevens Creek. Ninety days on the labor, printed on the receipt rather than implied.

The door is made right before the lock goes on, in the same visit. A new deadbolt does not fit an old door simply by arriving. On the houses here the bore is usually narrower than the 2 1/8 inches a modern lock is machined for, the backset is off by a quarter inch, and sixty years of hinge sag mean the bolt no longer meets the hole in the frame. That part is carpentry, and it happens before anything is screwed down: the bore opened true, the backset corrected, the hinges shimmed, the strike moved and its mortise recut. Then the lock. A lock hanging on a door that cannot hold it is not a finished job.
One figure, with the hour already counted into it. The number covers the visit, the labor and the parts, and the $89 service call sits inside it rather than underneath it. A van arriving between 8pm and midnight carries $55, and between midnight and 7am $95, both named on the call instead of at the door. A cylinder older than the paperwork said, a strike screwed into trim instead of framing, a keypad with flat cells: none of those reopen the arithmetic.
On a keypad lock the spread is the door, not the brand. Smart Lock Installation runs $199 to $495, and that range is wide on purpose. What moves you inside it is the leaf in front of you. A door still hanging true sits at the bottom of it. A door that has dropped on its hinges costs the time it takes to bring it back to square. A door with a narrow 1950s bore costs the work of opening it to size without splitting the stile. The make of lock barely moves the figure. Say the year the house was built and the range closes to one number.
A metal key is cut for every keypad we fit. Every keypad deadbolt has an override cylinder, and nearly all of them are sold with a blank that nobody ever takes to a machine. That is fine until the cells go flat at eleven at night in February. So the key is cut at the van the same day the lock goes on, tried in the cylinder while you watch, and you decide where it lives. Ninety days on the labor in writing, with the maker standing behind the part.

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Say the year the house was built, and the rest of the call is short

Cupertino and the west valley, every hour of the day. The age of the door decides the work and the work decides the figure, so the number comes back on the call with the $89 service call and the hour already inside it, and it is the number on the receipt. Ninety days on the labor, in writing.

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