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Woodside Plaza locksmith service on the west side, for 1950s ranch houses off Alameda de las Pulgas and the shops around the plaza itself
The flat west side between Woodside Rd and Alameda de las Pulgas: single-story ranch houses on curving streets, driveways with a side gate beside them, families in their second or third decade on the block, and the plaza's shops, a grocery and a pharmacy at the corner.
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21 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
The houses here went up in a few years in the 1950s and share a floor plan and a set of doors: a front door that has been upgraded once, a kitchen door onto the patio that has not, a sliding glass door on its factory latch, and a garage side door on whatever was in the drawer. The work follows that list. A rekey to put the front, the kitchen door and the garage onto one key is $25 to $41 per cylinder. A deadbolt added to a kitchen door that has only ever had a knob is a replacement at $115 to $309, bored to line up with what is there. The slider gets a secondary lock rather than a new latch, and the technician says so before you buy one.
Lockouts on these streets start at the side gate more often than at the front door. Someone takes the bins out, the gate latch drops, and the house is bolted from inside. That is $119 to $205, opened without damage first. Families with children who come home before a parent does ask about a smart lock on the door the family actually uses, which is usually the garage door or the kitchen door rather than the front, at $175 to $449 installed. A code for the sitter can be retired in a minute; a key under the mat cannot. Doors on this side of town swell in the wet months, and a smart lock on a door that has to be shouldered closed will announce a locked door that is not.
The plaza brings storefront work at $149 to $459, mostly worn mortise cylinders and pull handles on the aluminum doors, and a business lockout at opening time is $129 to $239. Cars in the plaza lot and along the school frontages are lockouts at $99 to $189. Parking is easy: every house has a driveway and the streets are wide, so the van stops at the curb. Arrival is about twenty-one minutes by Woodside Rd, a minute or two more when the road is backed up toward I-280 at the end of the day. The figure is settled on the call and the $89 service call is inside it.
Count the doors, including the kitchen door, the slider, the garage side door and the gate, and say whether the garage is attached. If the house still has its first hardware on a secondary door, mention it, so the matching deadbolt and strike come on the van.
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Across the town line, the same van
FAQ
Asked about Woodside Plaza
How long does the van take to the west side, and does Woodside Rd hold it up?+
About twenty-one minutes by Woodside Rd or Alameda de las Pulgas, with a minute or two more late in the afternoon when the road backs up toward I-280. The streets are wide and every house has a driveway, so the van stops at the curb outside your address rather than a block down.
I put the bins out, the side gate latched, and now the house is locked. Is the gate part of the job?+
It is, and it is the most common call on these streets. The gate latch is opened first, then the door it cut you off from, at $119 to $205 for the pair with no second call fee. If the gate has no cylinder at all, ask about fitting one on the same visit so the afternoon does not repeat itself.
Can the front door, the kitchen door and the garage side door all take one key?+
Almost always. The 1950s hardware around the plaza uses common keyways, so three or four cylinders are repinned to a single key at $25 to $41 each. Where one door carries an odd cylinder that will not join the set, it is replaced at $115 to $309 and keyed to match, and you hear which one before work starts.
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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.