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Broadmoor locksmith visits: arched doors in plaster jambs, iron gates down the side, garages at the back of the lot
The curved blocks off Broadmoor Boulevard and Bancroft Avenue. Spanish-revival houses from the thirties with tile porches, arched front doors, casement windows on cranks, a mail slot in the door, and an iron gate down one flank to a garage at the rear. Nineteen minutes from Davis Street.
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19 min
Avg. arrival
$89
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The arch is what makes this district its own job. The door was cut for the opening, the frame behind it is plaster over wood, and the hardware on the face is part of how the house reads from the street, so parts get matched instead of substituted. The common failure is not the lock but the jamb: screw holes in soft old plaster crumble, the strike shifts a fraction, and a bolt that threw cleanly last spring now catches on its lip. That gets shimmed and refixed into sound wood on the visit. Where a set has actually worn out, a replacement is $115 to $299 per door and the exact part is named while you are still on the call, not produced from the van as a surprise. Cylinders stiff with decades of graphite get cleaned and repinned at $26 to $42 each.
The second lock on a Broadmoor lot is the iron gate on the side path, and it accounts for more lockouts than the arched door ever will. Someone steps out to the garage or the trash cans at the back, the latch drops behind them, and the only key in the house is on the hall table on the other side of a bolted front door. That is $119 to $205. If the gate has no cylinder yet, adding one keyed alike with the house is a single extra line at $26 to $42, and it turns a repeat visit into a one-off. The garage itself is usually a wooden tilt-up at the end of the drive, often with a cane bolt and a hasp rather than a lock, and a shrouded padlock on that hasp costs less than anything else on the sheet.
The third thing owners here ask about is codes. Houses on these streets run a gardener every other week, a housekeeper, a piano teacher, and handing out brass to all of them stopped being practical years ago. A smart lock at $179 to $449 usually goes on the back door off the driveway, which is the door the household actually uses, and the arched front keeps its original set untouched. Each person who needs access gets their own code, and codes come off the list the day the arrangement ends. Weekend afternoons are the busiest window in this district. Evening work adds $45 and overnight adds $80, both counted inside the figure said on the call along with the $89 visit.
Say whether the trouble is the arched front, the back door off the driveway, or the iron gate on the side path, and whether that gate takes a key or only a thumb latch. The curved blocks confuse map apps, so a corner street helps after dark.
FAQ
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The iron gate on the side path latched behind me and my keys are indoors. Which door gets opened?+
The gate first, because on these lots it is what stands between the street and everything else. That is one visit at the lockout figure, not a gate charge and then a house charge. If the gate carries no cylinder at all, one keyed to the house can go on during the same visit and counts as a single cylinder.
Will a keypad look wrong on an arched front door?+
It would, which is why it rarely goes there. On the curved streets the keypad usually lands on the back door off the driveway, the one the household actually uses, and the arched front keeps its original set. The gardener, the cleaner and the piano teacher each get a code of their own, and a code comes off the list the day the arrangement ends.
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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.