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Piedmont: houses that were never divided, long key rings, and hardware old enough to be worth keeping
The small city up in the hills surrounded on every side by Oakland, reached in about twenty-three minutes from the island at the same published figures.
~23 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Almost nothing here is a shared front door, which turns the work into a different exercise from the one on our own streets. These are single households in large older houses, and the recurring job is a key ring that has outgrown its owners: a front door, a kitchen door, a basement, a garage, a garden gate and sometimes a studio at the bottom of the yard, all on different keys cut at different times, several of them opening nothing anybody can identify. Repinning at $30 to $47 per cylinder brings the property onto one key, with everything after the first cylinder at the low end and the $89 visit counted once across all of them, so the tally you take before calling is the whole basis of the figure. Older sets on the secondary doors are usually worth cleaning and repinning rather than replacing, and where one has genuinely worn out it is $127 to $332 per door with the part named beforehand. Safes left behind by a previous owner open at $198 to $529, and a lockout is $132 to $242.
Count every outside door and gate before you call, including the basement and any building at the bottom of the yard, since the count sets the figure. Say whether the driveway is gated and whether the number is visible from the road after dark.
Piedmont sits at the edge of the map the van covers, so arrival runs about 23 minutes. Every service and price on this site applies there, with nothing added for the distance.
Nearby
Over the hill, the same van
FAQ
Asked about Piedmont
We have eight keys and no idea what four of them open. Where does that end?+
With a walk around the property and a count, then one visit. Every cylinder that is worth keeping is repinned onto a single key at $30 to $47 each, and the keys that opened nothing stop mattering. Anything the technician finds that cannot be repinned is named with its figure before it is touched.
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.