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Piedmont Avenue locksmith for older family homes, the cafés along the avenue and quiet-night lockouts below Mountain View Cemetery
A neighborhood strip of cafés and shops climbing toward Mountain View Cemetery, with older single-family homes on either side and Kaiser Oakland at the bottom.
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18 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Piedmont Avenue is quieter than the districts around it, and the calls show it. Most come from homeowners on the streets between the avenue and Mountain View Cemetery with hardware from the 1920s through the 1950s that has finally worn past pinning. A deadbolt that has to be lifted to throw, a key that turns only with a wiggle, a back door with a slide bolt and nothing else. Lock replacement runs $99–$275 per door, and the tech will say which doors actually need it and which only need the strike moved a quarter inch. Whole-house rekeys after a sale are the other regular visit, at $21–$36 per cylinder.
The shops and cafés along Piedmont Ave itself are small storefronts with wood-frame doors, and the usual job is a deadlatch that stopped catching or a cylinder that spins freely, at $139–$430. Kaiser Oakland at the foot of the avenue brings a specific call: a shift worker back at the car at 11pm in the garage or on the side streets with the keys locked inside. Car lockouts run $89–$165, plus $35 after 8pm. Nights here are still, and a lockout on a side street at 1am is usually finished with nobody else awake on the block. Arrival is about eighteen minutes.
Tell us if the house is on one of the short dead-end streets above the avenue, and whether there is a driveway to pull into, since parking on Piedmont Ave itself is tight even at night.
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Reached from the same van, next door
FAQ
Asked about Piedmont Avenue
Parking on Piedmont Ave is tight. Does that slow the job down?+
A little, and it is worth a sentence on the call. The avenue itself has metered spaces that fill by ten and stay full through dinner. The side streets above it are easier. If the address has a driveway or an alley behind the shop, say so, and the technician goes straight there instead of circling.
I finish a shift at Kaiser at eleven and my keys are in the car. What does that cost?+
A car lockout is $89 to $165, and an arrival between 8pm and midnight adds $35, so the total is named as one figure while you are still standing there. Tell the call which garage level or which side street the car is on, and how long you can wait before your ride home leaves without you.
The houses here are old. Is it a replacement or just an adjustment?+
Often just an adjustment. A deadbolt you have to lift to throw and a key that needs a wiggle are usually a strike that has moved a quarter inch as the house settled, not a failed lock. The technician says which of your doors actually needs new hardware at $99 to $275 and which needs ten minutes with a chisel.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
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.