Redwood City neighborhood · 24/7
Roosevelt locksmith service south of Woodside Rd, for bungalows on Roosevelt Ave, four-unit stucco buildings and the door the children come home through
The neighborhood around Roosevelt Ave between Woodside Rd and the Atherton line: bungalows from the 1930s and 40s with a detached garage at the back, small stucco apartment buildings from the 1960s with doors onto an outside walkway, a school on the corner, and streets where everyone parks at the curb.
17 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Roosevelt is a family neighborhood, and the locksmith work here is about who comes and goes through which door. Bungalows have a front door with a deadbolt, a kitchen door onto a small yard, and a garage at the end of the driveway whose side door has been on a padlock for decades. A rekey after a purchase, or after a decade of contractors, is $25 to $41 per cylinder. Parents whose children come home from the school on the corner before they do ask about a smart lock on the kitchen door, at $175 to $449 installed, so that a code can be given to a child and to a grandparent and retired when it needs to be. The garage side door gets a real cylinder keyed to the house, at $115 to $309, in the same visit.
The stucco apartment buildings are four to twelve units with no lobby and doors that open straight onto a walkway or a stair. That makes a lockout simple to reach and simple to describe: the unit number is on the door. A unit lockout is $119 to $205. A rekey between tenants is $25 to $41 per cylinder, and the owner who lives in the front unit usually wants the written line for the file. Mailboxes on these buildings are a bank at the street on cam locks, and a cam is swapped in a couple of minutes when the technician is already there.
Arrival is about seventeen minutes by Woodside Rd or Middlefield Rd. Parking at the curb is tight after six in the evening, so the van stops in the nearest driveway with permission or half a block away. Cars parked along Roosevelt Ave and around the school are lockouts at $99 to $169, and a fair number are the same story: keys handed to a child to carry and put down somewhere. Evening adds $50 from 8pm and overnight $85 from midnight, inside the figure settled on the call.
Say which door the household uses most, since that is where a smart lock or a new deadbolt belongs. For an apartment, give the unit number and whether the door is on the ground floor or up the outside stair. If the curb is full after six, say where the van can stop.
Nearby
Across the town line, the same van
FAQ
What people ask before they call, and what is said back
How long until the van reaches my part of Redwood City?+
Twenty-one minutes is the average across the city, which is compact but not flat. Downtown and Courthouse Square usually see the van in 14, Centennial 16, Friendly Acres and Fair Oaks and Roosevelt 17, Woodside Plaza and Mount Carmel and Edgewood Park 21, Redwood Shores 22 because there is one road in and one road out, and Emerald Hills 27 because the roads above Farm Hill Blvd wind and the driveways are long. San Carlos is about 21, Atherton 22, Menlo Park 24, Belmont 26 and Woodside 29. The window in your text is worked out from the roads at that minute, not from the average.
Is there a different figure for evenings, weekends or holidays?+
Weekends and holidays cost the same as a weekday. The only additions are for the hour: $50 for arrival between 8pm and midnight, $85 between midnight and 7am, and both are counted inside the figure at the time you agree to it. A $119 house lockout becomes $169 after 8pm and $204 after midnight, and that is the figure read to you, with nothing produced at the door to add to it.
What does the figure include, and can it move?+
Four things: the $89 service call, the labor, any parts fitted, and the evening or overnight hour if there is one. They are added into one number before you say yes. A hill, a gate, a garage level or a buzzer panel does not change it. What can add to it is a second job you ask for once the technician is at the door, such as rekeying the rest of the house after a lockout; that is quoted as its own line and starts only on your yes.
Is drilling ever the first move?+
No. Drilling comes last and only with your agreement. Apartment cylinders, residential deadbolts, the mortise sets in the older houses, most aluminum storefront hardware and most car doors open with picks, decoders, bypass tools or an air wedge and keep working afterwards. It becomes a conversation when a cylinder is high-security, has already been damaged, or is seized by a broken key or corrosion. Then the technician explains the mechanism, names the replacement part and its cost, and the total stays at the figure settled on the call.
What proof do you need before opening a door or a car?+
For a house, condo or apartment, photo ID showing the address, or ID together with a lease, a utility bill or mail addressed to you on your phone. For a car, ID together with the registration or an insurance card, on paper or on a screen. For a shop, office or restaurant, ID together with a lease, a business license or a note from the property manager or the company. Without one of these the lock stays shut. The rule is the same one that keeps a stranger out of your door.
Our building in the Shores has a buzzer panel, a garage underneath and an HOA. Does any of that complicate things?+
Not the figure. Say on the call whether the van should come to the lobby panel, the garage gate or a side entrance, and whether someone can buzz it in. Condo deadbolts and unit locks are rekeyed or replaced the same way as a house; garage pedestrian doors and storage cages are usually keyed to the same key. If the HOA specifies a finish or a lock type for exterior doors, send the rule sheet and the quote will match it. A written line describing the work goes to the board on request, in the format most Shores associations ask for.
Our Mount Carmel house still has its 1920s mortise lock. Is it worth keeping?+
Usually, yes. A mortise set from the 1920s or 30s is a heavy, well-made mechanism, and most of what goes wrong is a tired spring, a worn key or decades of dried oil. It can be cleaned, re-sprung and rekeyed on site, and the brass plate and knobs stay where they are. If you want more security without discarding it, a modern deadbolt goes in above the original set. When a mortise body is genuinely worn out, a replacement is sized to the existing pocket so the door face is not cut again. The same applies to the side gates and back doors on those streets, which are often original too.
Do you come into the downtown garages, the Caltrain lot and the Kaiser lots?+
Yes. Car lockouts, key cutting and fob programming are done in the Jefferson and Marshall garages, the Caltrain lot, the Kaiser visitor and staff lots, the marina lot at the port and the campus garages on Seaport Blvd and in the Shores. Give the garage, the level and a landmark near the car. If the garage needs a badge, arrange for someone to let the van in or meet it at the entrance. Late on a show night at the Fox Theatre the downtown garages are slow to leave, and the window you get on the call will say so. None of it moves the figure.
24/7 — nights, weekends & holidays
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.