About

A locksmith whose rate before you commit.

One van, off Davis Street, houses in the morning and shop floors in the afternoon, any hour of any day. The lock comes open without damage wherever it allows, and what was said on the call is what the receipt shows. This is how a visit runs.

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Estudillo Security works San Leandro and the strip beside it from a van rather than a storefront, because a lock is bolted to a door and does not come to a counter. The name comes off the map: the Estudillo rancho became the town, Estudillo Avenue still runs through it and the Casa Peralta stands just off it. The van sits off Davis Street, which is deliberate — it puts the houses on one side and the works on the other, and the day splits the same way. Mornings go to homes: mortise sets and repinning in Estudillo Estates and Best Manor, arched doors and side gates on the Broadmoor curves, builder hardware in Washington Manor and Floresta Gardens, buzzer flats and fourplexes off Bancroft and East 14th, long driveways and detached garages up in Bay-O-Vista. Afternoons go to shop floors: man-doors beside roll-ups on Davis Street, freight and yard doors on Doolittle Drive, stockrooms on Alvarado, exit devices behind kitchens and glass fronts on East 14th and Washington Avenue. Calls are answered 24/7, nights, weekends and holidays.

Everything is priced the way a shop writes a line on a sheet: what it is, how it is counted, what it costs. The figure is said on the call and already holds the $89 visit. A house lockout is $119 to $205 per visit, a car lockout $99 to $189, a business lockout $129 to $239, post break-in repair $165 to $419. A rekey is $26 to $42 per cylinder, replacement hardware $115 to $299 per door, a keypad lock $179 to $449, a safe opening $185 to $495. Exit devices are $289 to $739 per door and storefront locks $155 to $449. A car key is $145 to $389, a fob $89 to $185, an ignition $175 to $425, motorcycle keys $115 to $269. An arrival between 8pm and midnight adds $45 and between midnight and 7am adds $80, both counted in before you say yes to anything. Master key systems and access control are quoted after the doors have been walked and counted. Whatever the technician finds behind the door, the receipt carries the figure from the call.

Distances run outward from Davis Street. Downtown and East 14th see the van in about 15 minutes, Estudillo Estates and Best Manor 15, the works themselves 17, Broadmoor 19, the Marina and Mulford Gardens 21, Washington Manor and Floresta Gardens 24, Bay-O-Vista and Bayfair 26 apiece, the hill because of the climb and Bayfair because of the traffic around the center. Beyond the city line, the airport and the Doolittle strip run 24, Oakland 26 up the boulevard, San Lorenzo 26, Ashland 28, Alameda 30 across the channel. Twenty-three minutes is the citywide average. Where a district is slower it is named as slower on the call, because a window that turns out to be wrong is worse than a longer window that holds.

The Same Number Twice

Four things that hold the same way for a fourplex off Bancroft, a 1938 house on Estudillo Avenue and a warehouse man-door on Alvarado.

One figure on the call, covering the visit, the labor and the partsSay what the door is and what it is doing. What comes back is a single figure with the unit it is counted in — per visit, per cylinder, per door — and it holds the $89 visit, the hands on the job and whatever hardware goes on. Not a range that narrows later. Not a floor with room above it.

The receipt shows that figure whatever the technician findsA cylinder twenty years older than it looked. A strike some previous owner shimmed with a folded washer. A security screen bolted over the deadbolt. A roll-up door that has been forced back into line with a bar. None of it moves what you pay. The card is charged the figure from the call and the emailed receipt carries the same figure, broken out by line.

Opened without damage first, and a drill only once you agreePicks, decoders and bypass tools come out on every job, from an apartment cylinder on Halcyon Drive to a mortise body on a Best Manor front door, and the lock keeps working after the van pulls away. When a mechanism truly will not give, you hear what it is doing and what would replace it, and the call is yours. Saying yes to a drill never raises the figure you were given.

Card or tap at the door, and paper for whoever asksA reader or a phone tap once the door behaves, and not a minute earlier. The itemized receipt lands in your inbox under a business name. When a landlord, a property manager or an insurer needs the job described in a line they can file, that line comes with it.

House lockoutper visit: $119
Rekeyper cylinder: $26
Panic barper door: $289
The visitinside every figure: $89

Where we work

San Leandro, the works and the strip beside them, any hour

Pick your area for its own arrival time and the jobs we run there most.

Downtown & East 14th Estudillo Estates & Best Manor Broadmoor Bay-O-Vista & the hills Washington Manor & Floresta Gardens Marina & Mulford Gardens Bayfair & Halcyon-Foothill Davis Street & the works San Lorenzo Ashland Oakland Oakland Airport & Doolittle Alameda

(510) 901-3716

24/7 — nights, weekends & holidays

Houses in the morning, shop floors after, and the figure said before either one starts

San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Ashland, Oakland, the airport and Doolittle strip, and Alameda across the channel, 24/7, holidays included. Describe the door, hear one figure with the $89 visit inside it and the unit it is counted in, and the lock gets opened without damage wherever it can be. The receipt says what the call said, whether the deed is in your name or the lease is.

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