Lock Replacement & Installation in Alameda
$127 to $332. Deadbolts, handlesets and levers, including a first proper deadbolt on a flat door that has only ever had a latch. Tall old leaves get measured before anything is cut, because the stile beside the glass in a Victorian front door forgives nothing, and the keeper is anchored into framing rather than into casing.
$127–$332
Typical price
18 min
Avg. arrival
24/7
Availability
Two jobs share this page. Plain replacement, where a cylinder or a whole lock is past the point of useful repinning. And fitting a proper bolt to a door that has never had one, which turns up on this island more often than anywhere else in the county.
The second job is a consequence of how these houses were built and then divided. A wooden house of that period got a knob set on its front door and no bolt at all, with a latch reaching maybe half an inch into soft trim. When the house was later cut into flats, the doors that became flat doors were frequently interior doors fitted with a keyed knob and nothing further, while the entrance kept its original hardware. So a building can carry four locks with not one proper bolt among them. Correcting that happens one leaf at a time, and your own leaf needs agreement from nobody.
Shared doors are the part to arrange rather than assume. New hardware on an entrance, a stair door or a yard gate is the owner's or the management company's call, and it takes a little coordination, because whatever goes on has to answer keys held by every household behind it. Name the doors you have in mind on the phone and that gets settled before a technician is on a porch holding a box.
Nothing is unscrewed before the leaf has been measured, because these doors agree with modern packaging only by accident. Backsets often come in at the older of the two standard figures. Bores were commonly drilled under the diameter current hardware assumes, which is two and one eighth inches. And an interior door promoted to flat door can be thinner than either. If the bore wants opening, or the leaf wants a plate, that gets done in front of you and finished before the new lock is offered up to it.
Sometimes replacement is the wrong answer and saying so is part of the job. A key that has started to stick is very often a dirty cylinder, or a strike that has wandered a few millimeters and can be shifted back. Both are adjustments, not purchases. You can settle it yourself in ten seconds: swing the door wide and turn the key in mid-air. Fighting you with the door open means the cylinder. Turning sweetly with the door open and seizing once it is shut means the strike, and the lock is fine.
Fitted, hardware included, the figure lands between $127 and $332 with the $89 trip counted in. A cylinder dropped straight into prep that already suits it: $127. What takes it to $332: a full bolt on an old leaf that has to be bored or plated, a handleset, or two doors handled on one stop. Brand, grade and finish are named before the old lock comes off, keys are cut on site, and unless you want the old hardware taken away it stays with you. Ninety days on the workmanship.
Sixteen jobs, fourteen of them with a range and two quoted once the openings have been counted on site. What moves a figure inside its range here is how many households the door serves: one cylinder and one key is the low end, while a street door that every flat carries a key to means a key plan rather than a lock, and that takes the high one. Say which door it is and who the building answers to, and the range closes to a single number on the call.
- Daytime (7am–8pm)standard rates
- Evening (8pm–12am)+$50
- Overnight (12am–7am)+$88
FAQ
Lock Replacement & Installation: quick answers
Our flat door is an old interior door with a keyed knob and nothing more. Can it take a bolt?+
Usually, and it is worth doing. The leaf gets measured first, because an interior door promoted like that is often thinner than a bolt expects and sometimes wants a plate before anything goes on. Where the leaf is genuinely too light, that is said plainly and an alternative is priced rather than something being forced into wood that will not hold it.
The key only turns if I lean on it. Does the lock have to go?+
Possibly not, and ten seconds settles it. Swing the door wide and turn the key in mid-air. Still fighting you means the cylinder is worn or dirty, and it may want nothing more than cleaning or repinning. Turning easily in mid-air and binding once the door is closed means the strike has moved, which is an adjustment inside the visit.
Who orders new hardware for the entrance of a house with several flats in it?+
The owner or the management company. We take it up with them directly rather than asking a resident to negotiate it. Once it is agreed, the new cylinder is pinned so every household behind that door carries a key that works, and the old blades are collected or written off deliberately instead of being left in circulation.
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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.