Lock Replacement & Installation in San Leandro
Deadbolts, knob sets, levers and mortise bodies carried on the van, with the make and grade named beforehand. $115 to $299 per door.
$115–$299
Typical price
23 min
Avg. arrival
24/7
Availability
There is a point where rekeying is the wrong answer and everyone can feel it. A deadbolt that only reaches its strike when the door is lifted with a knee. A knob that spins and moves nothing. A keypad lock on a rental that has eaten three sets of batteries and now refuses every code, including the manager one. A garage side door in Bay-O-Vista held shut by a hasp screwed into soft trim. Original builder knobs on a Floresta Gardens tract house, worn past a key after seventy years. Estudillo Security carries deadbolts, knobs, levers and handlesets on the van, in finishes chosen to sit quietly beside the hinges and the house numbers already on the door.
The tape measure comes out before the screwdriver. Thickness, backset and bore vary more between San Leandro houses than owners expect. A post-war tract door is thinner than a modern slab. A Broadmoor door from the thirties may carry a mortise pocket that no cylindrical lock can use without a filler plate. A flat door off Bancroft is often hollow metal and wants through-bolts rather than wood screws. Where a mortise pocket exists the replacement is another mortise lock behind the original plate, so the old brass stays on the house. A door already bored for what is going into it takes twenty to thirty minutes; a door that is not gets bored or plated first, and the fit is shown to you before a screw is driven. Keys are cut at the van, and if you want one key for the whole house the new lock is pinned to the doors you already have. On a rental a lever outlasts a knob and is easier on an older hand, which is why most managers ask for one.
Fitted with the hardware included, a lock is $115 to $299, counted per lock, and the $89 service call is inside that figure. At $115 it is a residential deadbolt on a door already prepared for it. Toward $299 sit a heavier grade of deadbolt, a lever set, a handleset with its matching bolt, a mortise lock behind original trim, and whatever boring or plating the door turns out to need. From 8pm to midnight the $115 lock is said as $160 and from midnight to 7am as $195. A restricted cylinder, a fire-rated door or an odd preparation is named at the start when you send photographs, not at the end with the old lock already off.
You call and say what happened and where, and send two photographs, one of the lock face and one of the door edge. The figure is said on the call with the unit it is counted in, per lock. The van leaves Davis Street, and a text names the technician and gives a thirty-minute window. The old lock comes off only after the door is measured, the new one goes on, the strike is set, keys are cut, and the bolt is thrown with the door shut against its weatherstrip, because a bolt tested on an open door proves nothing. The receipt shows the figure from the call, lock by lock.
“Our house went up in 1938 and the front door still carried the mortise set it was born with. You had to lean into it to get the bolt over. $265 on the call. He drew the case out, set the worn parts on the porch step so I could see what had gone, and dropped in a body that fit the same pocket, so no chisel ever touched that door. The old brass plate and the glass knob stayed where they were. He put the kitchen door on the same key and the figure did not change.”
Every job is priced from the list below. The figure is said on the call with the unit it is counted in — per visit, per cylinder, per door — and the receipt repeats it.
- Daytime (7am–8pm)standard rates
- Evening (8pm–12am)+$45
- Overnight (12am–7am)+$80
FAQ
Lock Replacement & Installation: quick answers
I bought a deadbolt at a hardware store on Washington Avenue. Is fitting my own lock a different job?+
It is labor only, and that figure is said on the call like any other, counted per lock. Send a photograph of the box and one of the door edge first, so you learn whether it fits while it is still in the bag rather than after the old lock is off. The packaging, the paperwork and every spare key stay with you.
What grade of deadbolt makes sense for a ground-floor flat on a shared walkway?+
Grade 2, on a strike with long screws into framing. The bagged deadbolts in most hardware aisles are Grade 3, which is honest enough on a door only your household walks past. A door that strangers pass all day earns the next grade up. Grade 1 belongs on a door that has already been forced; anywhere else the money does more good in the strike and the jamb.
The rest of the hardware on our Estudillo Avenue front door is original. Will a new lock spoil the look of it?+
Rarely. Where the door carries a mortise pocket, a second mortise case slides in behind the knobs, the plate and the escutcheon you already have, so what the street sees does not change and only the working parts inside do. Where you want a separate deadbolt above it, several makers still list small rosettes in aged brass and dark bronze cut for houses of that age. Send a photograph of the knob and the plate with your call and the closest match rides out on the van.
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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.