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Centennial locksmith calls between Downtown and Woodside Rd, where a 1930s front door and a six-unit apartment court sit on the same block
The streets between the downtown grid and Woodside Rd: 1920s to 40s houses, some in the same family for fifty years and some let room by room, small apartment courts with a shared walkway and a mailbox bank, and hardware from every decade since the houses were built.
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16 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Centennial is sixteen minutes away and its doors are a history of the neighborhood. A 1930s front door carries a deadbolt from the 1970s above a knob from the 1990s, the back door has a surface bolt someone fitted in an afternoon, and the garage side door has a cylinder that no longer matches anything. Putting that onto one key is the ordinary call. A rekey is $25 to $41 per cylinder, and the technician says on the call which cylinders can share a key and which are on a keyway that will not, since a house with four decades of hardware often has two or three. Where a cylinder is too worn to repin, a replacement is $115 to $309 per door, and the front door is usually the one worth keeping.
The apartment courts are four to eight units around a walkway, built in the 1950s and 60s, with a laundry room and a bank of mailboxes at the street. Units turn over steadily, and a rekey at turnover is $25 to $41 per cylinder with the mailbox cam swapped in the same visit. A unit lockout is $119 to $205, and the technician needs the unit letter and whether the door faces the street or the inner walkway, since the numbering on these courts follows a logic of its own. Landlords with two units turning in the same week book one visit, and the $89 service call sits inside that one figure once. A written line for the owner or the manager is on the receipt when asked for.
Streets here are narrow, with cars on both sides and mature trees over them, so the van stops where it can and the case walks the last stretch. Kaiser Redwood City on Veterans Blvd is close enough that shift changes are felt on the cross streets, and that is mentioned on the call when it applies. Evening calls carry $50 between 8pm and midnight and $85 overnight, stated inside the figure rather than appearing on the receipt.
Say whether the house is owner-occupied or let, and count the cylinders on all the exterior doors, not only the front. For an apartment court, give the unit letter and the walkway, and say whether visitor parking exists or the van will be at the curb.
Nearby
Across the town line, the same van
FAQ
Asked about Centennial
Our house has hardware from four different decades. Can all of it go onto one key?+
Some of it. A 1930s front door, a 1970s deadbolt and a 1990s knob often sit on two or three different keyways, and a cylinder can only be repinned within its own. The technician says on the call which ones will join the set and which need a $115 to $309 replacement to do so. Nothing is drilled to force a match.
The streets are narrow and parked solid. Where will the van stand?+
Wherever it fits without blocking a driveway, with the case carried the last stretch. That costs a couple of minutes and nothing on the receipt. If a visitor space or an empty driveway exists, say so on the call. Around Kaiser on Veterans Blvd the cross streets fill at shift change, and the window in your text allows for it.
Two units in my apartment court turn over the same week. Is that one visit or two?+
One, if the dates line up. Cylinders are $25 to $41 each and the $89 service call sits inside a single figure once rather than twice. Mailbox cams at the street bank are swapped on the same visit. Give the unit letters and say which doors face the inner walkway, since the numbering on these courts follows its own logic.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
One call, one figure, settled before the van turns the key
Calls answered 24/7 for Redwood City and the towns beside it. One figure for the visit, the labor and the parts, with the $89 service call inside it, and a receipt that matches it line for line.