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Berkeley: shared houses, flats over shops, and street doors that half the time do not lock at all
Up the shoreline past Oakland and Emeryville, about twenty-five minutes from the island, worked at the same figures printed everywhere on this site.
~25 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
The shape of the housing here rhymes with our own and the arithmetic is the same. A house shared by five or six people, or a flat over a shop reached by a street door several addresses use, means a count of cylinders rather than a single lock: exterior doors, bedroom locks that residents added years ago, a back door onto the yard, a mail bank. Repinning is $30 to $47 per cylinder and the sensible arrangement is one key for the exterior doors that everybody carries and a separate key for each personal door, worked out on the call so the figure covers the whole house instead of the first door reached. Where the trouble is a street door that a whole building uses, that is the owner's or the manager's to order, and one written line from either is enough. A lockout on the door you live behind is yours to arrange at $132 to $242. Twenty-five minutes is the honest average and the far end of the city runs longer, which is said separately rather than averaged away.
Count the cylinders before you call, bedroom doors included, and say whether the street door of the building locks at all right now. For a house, say how many people live there, since that decides how the keys are best split.
Berkeley sits at the edge of the map the van covers, so arrival runs about 25 minutes. Every service and price on this site applies there, with nothing added for the distance.
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Over the hill, the same van
FAQ
Asked about Berkeley
Nobody in the house knows how many locks we have. Can you still give a figure?+
Walk it once and count: front, back, any bedroom lock a former resident added, the mail bank, a shed or bike room. Each cylinder is $30 to $47 with the $89 visit counted once. The total for the whole house is worked out while you are still on the phone rather than tallied up at the door afterward.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
Say whether it is the street door or your own, and the rest of the call is short
Alameda and Bay Farm, at any hour. Which leaf it is decides who approves the work, the door itself decides the work, and the work decides the number, which is settled on the phone with the $89 visit and any late hour already inside it. It reads the same on the receipt. Ninety days on the labor, in writing.