About
A locksmith whose rate before you commit.
Mobile across San Mateo and the towns beside it, any hour, with the figure written down before the van pulls out. Here is how a visit runs and what the work order says.
Hillsdale Lock & Key is a mobile locksmith for San Mateo and the towns beside it. The name belongs to the district: the city's main commercial center, its Caltrain stop and the streets around them, which is where the van spends much of its day. There is no shop, because a lock is not something you carry to a counter. The van holds what San Mateo doors take: mortise cases and cylinders for the 1920s and 30s houses in Baywood, Aragon and San Mateo Park, deadbolts and levers for the 1950s houses in Shoreview and on the side streets off El Camino, keypad and app locks for the Bay Meadows units and the rentals in North Central, aluminum deadlatches and hookbolts for the glass doors on B St, 4th Ave and 25th Ave, strike plates and jamb reinforcement, exit devices, readers, and blanks and programmers for most cars on the road, hybrids and EVs included. Calls are answered 24/7, nights, weekends and holidays.
Pricing is arranged so it can be checked on paper. Every job carries an $89 service call, and it is counted inside the figure written on the work order rather than appended at the end. A house lockout runs $112 to $195, a rekey $24 to $40 per cylinder, replacement hardware $112 to $305 per door, a car key $142 to $395. Arrival between 8pm and midnight adds $45 and between midnight and 7am adds $75, both written inside the total before you decide. Master key systems and access control are quoted in writing after the doors have been counted, because the cost depends on how many doors there are and who should open which. Once written down, the figure is the figure on the card, and the receipt matches the work order line for line.
Coverage runs from the bay to the ridge and past the city line. Hillsdale sees the van in about 15 minutes, Downtown and Central Park and Bay Meadows 17, North Central 19, Baywood and Aragon 23, San Mateo Park 24, Shoreview and Coyote Point 26, and Sugarloaf and Laurelwood about 30 on their winding streets above Highway 92. Across the whole city the average is 23 minutes, which is what a flat, compact grid with two freeways and a Caltrain line gets you. Burlingame, Belmont, Foster City, Hillsborough and Millbrae are served at the same written figures, between 24 and 30 minutes, with the single bridge into Foster City named as the reason on the call when it is slow.
Written Down First
The figure is entered on the work order before the van leaves. Four parts, each one in writing.
- Neighborhoods served
- 8
- Towns beside them
- 5
- Hours
- 24, every day
- Average arrival
- 23 min
Downtown, Hillsdale, Bay Meadows, Baywood and Aragon, San Mateo Park, North Central, Shoreview and Coyote Point, Sugarloaf and Laurelwood.
Burlingame, Foster City, Belmont, Hillsborough and Millbrae, at the same written figures.
Calls answered around the clock; evenings after 8pm and overnight hours are stated inside the figure on the call.
The city is flat and compact; the hills above Highway 92 and the far side of Foster City run a few minutes longer, and the window says so.
Where we work
San Mateo & the towns beside it, any hour
Pick your area for its own arrival time and the jobs we run there most.
24/7 — nights, weekends & holidays
One call, one figure on the work order, the same figure on the receipt
Calls answered 24/7 across San Mateo and the towns beside it. The $89 service call, the labor and the parts are inside the number written down on the call, and the receipt matches it line for line.