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Foster City locksmith visits over the lagoon, for townhomes and condos with an HOA, patio doors onto the water and office parks off the boulevard
The planned city on the bay side of the lagoon: townhome and condo complexes from the 1970s through the 1990s along Beach Park Blvd and Edgewater Blvd, each with an HOA and a rule about what a front door may look like, patio doors onto the water, and office parks along Chess Dr and around the Metro Center.
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28 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Foster City is reached over the lagoon crossings on E 3rd Ave or Highway 92, and arrival is about twenty-eight minutes. Nearly every home is in a complex with an HOA, and that shapes the work more than the locks do. The hardware in one complex is uniform, a lever and a deadbolt in one finish on every door, and the HOA usually wants a replacement to match. A rekey is $24 to $40 per cylinder and needs nobody's approval. A replacement at $112 to $305 or a smart lock at $172 to $445 often does, and the technician provides the written line with the model and the finish so the note to the HOA takes five minutes.
The lagoon side of a unit has its own doors: a sliding patio door onto the water that gets a secondary lock, a gate onto a shared dock on a padlock, a storage closet on the patio. Lockouts at $112 to $195 happen at the patio door as often as at the front, when it slides shut behind someone on the deck. Salt and damp reach the cylinders here as they do at Coyote Point, and a stiff key is cleaned and rekeyed before anything is replaced. Some HOAs keep a master or an emergency key policy and want it kept; that is asked about on the call so the new hardware fits the rule.
The office parks along Chess Dr and around the Metro Center bring suite lockouts at $127 to $235, exit devices at $285 to $749 per device, and small master key systems quoted after a walk-through. Cars in the office lots and at the Metro Center are lockouts at $97 to $179. The crossings back up in the evening, and the estimate on the call says so. The $89 service call is inside every figure, and evening calls add $45 between 8pm and midnight and $75 overnight, written into the figure rather than found on the receipt.
Give the complex name and the building number, say whether the trouble door is the front or the patio side, and say whether the HOA needs a written line before or after the work. If the complex has a gate, say whether it is on a code.
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FAQ
Asked about Foster City
Does the HOA have to approve a new lock on my front door?+
A rekey needs nobody’s permission, since the hardware does not change. A replacement at $112 to $305 or a keypad lock at $172 to $445 usually does, because most complexes here specify the finish and sometimes the model. The technician writes down the make, the model and the finish so the note to the board takes one email rather than a meeting.
The patio door onto the lagoon slid shut behind me. Can that be opened from outside?+
Yes, and it is one of the more common calls in this city. Sliding doors and their secondary locks are opened without breaking glass in nearly every case, at $112 to $195 with the visit inside. Tell the technician which building faces the water and whether the only way to the patio is through a neighbor’s gate or along the shared path.
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.