Shoreview and Coyote Point locksmith visits, from the 1950s houses east of 101 to the marina and the workshops along Norfolk St

Salt air is the recurring theme. The houses off Norfolk St are stucco single-story homes from the 1950s with a kitchen door, a side gate and an attached garage, and the cylinders on the bay side go green and stiff before the ones on the street side do. A key that needs jiggling is usually corroded pins rather than a worn key, and cleaning and rekeying at $24 to $40 per cylinder solves most of it. Where the plug is pitted, replacement is $112 to $305 per door, and the technician chooses a finish that will last in this air. Lockouts are $112 to $195 and start at a side gate more often than at the front.

The workshops and warehouses between Norfolk St and the bay work differently. Roll-up doors on padlocks, man doors with an exit device, an office door on a cylinder that has been there since the building went up. Exit devices are $285 to $749 per device, and the common fault is a bar that depresses and a latch that never reaches the strike, so the door can be pulled from the yard. A business lockout at 6am with the crew waiting is $127 to $235. Cutting a padlock and fitting a new one on a roll-up is a small line in a visit already at the yard.

Coyote Point brings its own calls: a car locked at the marina lot or the park at $97 to $179, a motorcycle key at $112 to $269 for a bike that rode out on a spare, a cabin lock on a boat at the docks. The park has a gate kiosk and the marina has its own gate, and the technician says on the call whether the van can come through or meets you outside. Arrival is about twenty-six minutes because everything east of 101 depends on two crossings, at 3rd Ave and at Peninsula Ave, and the estimate reflects which one is moving.