San Mateo neighborhood · 24/7
Locksmith calls downtown and around Central Park, from a B St restaurant at closing to an apartment above a 4th Ave shop
The blocks between the Caltrain station and Central Park: restaurants and small shops on B St and 4th Ave, apartments on the floors above them, the city garages off Main St, and the Japanese Tea Garden at the edge of the park.
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17 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Downtown is seventeen minutes from where the van usually sits, and most of its calls come after dinner. B St and 4th Ave are restaurants and bars behind pairs of glass doors, many without a center post, with the lock on the meeting stile and a flush bolt holding the second leaf. A pair like that goes out of alignment when the closer weakens, and then the key turns but the bolt misses the keeper. Storefront work is $147 to $455 and most of it is that adjustment, a new cylinder, or a hookbolt where a straight bolt has been prying loose. A business lockout at closing, with the one key in a server's apron on the other side of town, is $127 to $235, with $45 added between 8pm and midnight.
Above the shops are apartments reached by a street door with a buzzer panel and a mailbox bank, then a stair. The street door is on the landlord's key; the unit door is often older than the tenant by forty years, a knob set and a deadbolt fitted at different times and never keyed together. A rekey is $24 to $40 per cylinder and a lockout is $112 to $195, opened without damage first. The street door matters more than tenants think: if the buzzer is dead the technician cannot reach the unit, so say on the call whether it works and whether a neighbor can let the van in.
The garages supply the rest. The city structures off Main St and between 2nd and 5th Ave hold the cars for dinner, and a car lockout at $97 to $179 needs the level and the stall number painted on the floor, since the ramps look alike at eleven at night. The surface lot beside the Caltrain station at 1st Ave and the park's El Camino Real side bring weekend calls: a fob that died at $98 to $182 to program a fresh one, a key locked in the trunk after a picnic. Parking for the van is a loading zone or the ground level of the nearest garage, and the case walks the last block. Arrival is about seventeen minutes, and the figure is written down on the call with the $89 service call inside it.
Give the block and say which door it is: the street door, an upstairs unit or the rear door onto the alley. For a garage, give the level and the stall number, and say whether the technician can drive in or the entrance is gated at this hour.
Most requested in Downtown & Central Park
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FAQ
Asked about Downtown & Central Park
Our restaurant on B St closes at eleven and the door will not lock. Can the van still come?+
Yes, and that hour is when most downtown calls land. Storefront work runs $147 to $455, with $45 added between 8pm and midnight and $75 after midnight, both inside the figure written on the call. Say whether the trouble is the pair of doors, the flush bolt or the closer, and leave one person on site to lock up behind the technician.
The street door of my building above a 4th Ave shop is on the landlord’s key. Who authorizes work on it?+
The owner or the manager does, because that door belongs to the building rather than to any tenant. Your own unit door is yours, and a lockout there is $112 to $195. If the buzzer panel is dead the technician cannot be let in at all, so say on the call whether it works and whether a neighbor can open the street door.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
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.