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Laurel and Dimond locksmith for 1920s bungalows, MacArthur Blvd shops and the detached garages behind family homes
Bungalows from the 1920s to 40s on the streets off MacArthur Blvd and Fruitvale Ave, with back doors and detached garages that were never keyed to the house.
4.9 / 5· 687 reviews from Oakland & the inner East Bay
22 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Laurel and Dimond are family blocks. The bungalows between MacArthur Blvd and I-580 went up between the 1920s and the 1940s, and the pattern repeats house to house: a front door with a decent deadbolt, a back door off the kitchen with the original knob, and a detached garage at the end of the driveway with a hasp or nothing at all. The tech is usually called for the back door and the garage, not the front. Lock replacement runs $99–$275 per door, and a rekey that puts every door on the family's one key is $21–$36 per cylinder. Break-in repair here is mostly back doors, at $145–$390 including a reinforced strike.
The shops along MacArthur Blvd in the Laurel and around Fruitvale Ave in the Dimond District are small, owner-run storefronts, and a door that needs a hip to latch is a service call before it becomes a break-in. Storefront locks run $139–$430. Dimond Park and the trail into Sausal Creek bring weekend car lockouts at $89–$165. Arrival is about twenty-two minutes, since these blocks sit east of the lake and the quickest route is I-580 to the Fruitvale Ave or High St exits. School pickup along MacArthur adds a few minutes in the afternoon, and that is said on the call.
Say whether the job is the house, the back door or the detached garage, and if the driveway is shared with the neighbor, so the tech parks where nobody gets blocked in.
Nearby
Reached from the same van, next door
FAQ
Asked about Laurel & Dimond
Why does the afternoon run longer than twenty-two minutes?+
School pickup on MacArthur Blvd. Between two and four the boulevard backs up from the Laurel through the Dimond, and the I-580 exits at Fruitvale Ave and High St feed straight into it. The call names the realistic window for that hour rather than repeating the map number, and evenings drop back to the usual drive.
The detached garage has a different key from the house. Can everything go on one?+
Usually yes. Front door, back door, garage side door and a gate can be keyed alike at $21 to $36 per cylinder, so the family carries one key. The limit is hardware that takes a different keyway; the technician says which pieces need swapping first at $99 to $275 and which simply repin.
Which door gets forced around here?+
The back one, off the kitchen, almost every time. The bungalows between MacArthur Blvd and I-580 were built with a solid front deadbolt and an original knob on the rear, and the rear is where the jamb splits. Repair with a long strike and three-inch screws into the framing runs $145 to $390, and the detached garage is worth a look while the technician is there.
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One call, one locked rate, anywhere in Oakland
Calls answered 24/7. Quoted from the list, locked on the call, unchanged on the receipt. The $89 service call is applied toward the work.