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Locksmith work around the mall and the Caltrain stop at Hillsdale, for the apartment complexes on El Camino and 31st Ave and the 1950s houses behind them
The district the company is named for: the shopping center, the elevated Caltrain station, apartment complexes along El Camino Real and 31st Ave, and blocks of single-story houses built in the 1950s on the streets between them.
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15 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Fifteen minutes is the shortest arrival on the map because the van is often already in the district. The apartment complexes along El Camino Real and 31st Ave split into two kinds. The garden complexes from the 1960s and 70s have carports, a mailbox bank in a breezeway and a knob set on every unit door; a rekey there is $24 to $40 per cylinder and the mailbox cam comes along for a few dollars. The newer blocks near the station have a lobby fob and a lever set on the unit, and the lockout is $112 to $195 either way. Say the complex name and the building letter, since the leasing office is where a street address lands the technician by default.
The side streets are stucco houses from the 1950s: an attached garage, a kitchen door onto the yard, a sliding door onto the patio and a front door that got a deadbolt in 1985. Those houses change hands now, and the sensible first visit is a rekey of every cylinder onto one key, kitchen and garage side door included. Where the kitchen door has only a knob, a deadbolt above it is a lock replacement at $112 to $305 per door, and the strike gets screws that reach the framing. Sliding doors get a secondary lock rather than a new latch. Lockouts on these blocks are $112 to $195 and start at a self-latching side gate more often than at the front.
The mall structure and the station lot bring the car work. A car lockout is $97 to $179, and the structure needs a level and the nearest store entrance to find the car; the lot needs the row. The structure gates after the stores close, and if the car is inside at that hour the technician goes in on foot with the case, which is planned on the call. Fob programming is $98 to $182 and a replacement key for a car that has none is $142 to $395, both done beside the car. The $89 service call is inside every figure and it is written on the work order before the van pulls out.
For an apartment, give the complex name and the building letter rather than the street number alone. For a car in the structure, name the level and the store entrance nearest the car, and say whether the entrance ramps are still open.
Nearby
A few blocks over, the same van
FAQ
Asked about Hillsdale
Which address should I give for an apartment on El Camino Real or 31st Ave?+
Give the complex name and the building letter, then the unit. A street number alone usually drops the technician at the leasing office, which on a Sunday is a locked door in a different corner of the property. Say whether the unit door faces a breezeway, a carport or an interior corridor, and whether the mailbox key went missing with the rest.
We just bought a 1950s house on the side streets. Which doors get forgotten in a rekey?+
The side door into the attached garage and the kitchen door onto the yard, almost every time. Both were fitted late, both take a different key, and both open onto the same house. A rekey is $24 to $40 per cylinder, so counting them at the start keeps the figure honest. The gate latch and the mailbox cam are usually worth adding while the technician is there.
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.