About

A locksmith whose rate before you commit.

One van, based off Arroyo Road, out to any door in the city at any hour — a street gate, a lobby reader, a garage clicker or a front door. The figure is settled on the call, the late hour already inside it. This is how a visit runs.

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Arroyo Key & Bolt works Livermore and the Tri-Valley out of a van rather than a storefront, because a lock is bolted to a door and does not come to a counter. The name comes from the creek beds that cut the town, Arroyo Mocho, Arroyo Las Positas and Arroyo Seco, and from Arroyo Road, where the van is based. Every minute on this site is measured from that yard: 14 to downtown and First Street, 15 to the Jensen Tract, 17 to Portola and North Livermore, 18 to Sunset East, 19 to Las Positas and the airport edge, 20 to Springtown, 21 to Granada and Vineyard, 23 to Windmill Springs and Tapestry. Out of town it is 22 to Pleasanton, 26 to Dublin, 29 to Sunol, 32 to San Ramon and 34 to Danville. Twenty-two minutes is the average. Calls are answered 24/7, nights, weekends and holidays.

The idea this business runs on is simple enough to say in one line: a Livermore house has three doors and the household uses one of them. You drive in, the overhead door comes down, and you walk through a hollow-core slab with a builder knob on it into the kitchen. The front door gets opened for deliveries. That is not a criticism, it is just how the town is built, and it decides what goes wrong. The classic call here is not a lost key. It is the opener dying or the power dropping, and a front-door key that has been in a drawer since the day of the move. It also decides where the weak point sits, which is that same slab between the garage and the house: no deadbolt, hollow core, and the garage is the least secure part of the property. A deadbolt in it is $118 to $299, and that is the whole of what we have to say on the subject. The second half of every visit is the part that matters afterward. You should end up holding a key that works, whether that is one cut at the van, a rekey so a single blade opens the front door, the garage service door and the slider, or a keypad code you chose and punched in yourself.

Pricing follows the same list every time, and the $89 visit sits inside every figure. A house lockout is $129 to $225, a car lockout $109 to $205, a business lockout $145 to $259, post break-in repair $185 to $445. A rekey is $25 to $42 per cylinder, with the second cylinder cheaper than the first because the van is already there. Replacement hardware runs $118 to $299, a keypad or smart lock $179 to $449, a safe opening $205 to $535. On the commercial side, exit devices are $289 to $739 per door, access control $155 to $415, storefront locks $159 to $449, and master key systems get walked and counted on site before a figure is given. A car key is $165 to $409, a vehicle fob $89 to $189, an ignition $179 to $425, motorcycle keys $115 to $265. An arrival between 8pm and midnight adds $45 and between midnight and 7am adds $80, both counted in before you say yes, so a late job moves up inside its range and never past the top of it. What is not on this list is anything to do with springs, panels, cables or opener motors, because that is a different trade and we are not it.

Opened, Then Keyed

Four things that hold the same way for a 1962 ranch house in Sunset East, a bungalow behind an alley garage in the Jensen Tract, a builder keypad in Windmill Springs and a shop unit off Las Positas Road.

One figure on the call, whichever of the three doors it turns out to beSay which door stopped you and what it is doing. A single figure comes back that holds the $89 visit, the labor and every part that ends up on the door. It does not matter whether the answer is the service door beside the garage, the slab between the garage and the kitchen, or the front door with the cylinder nobody has turned in four years. You hear the number first, and the evening or overnight hour is counted in before you hear it.

The receipt shows that same figure, whatever the technician findsA knob set from 1962 that has been painted twice. A deadbolt whose strike is screwed into trim instead of the stud. A keypad flat since the July heat. A slab door so swollen the latch has not met the frame since spring. A cylinder that three owners of keys still fit. None of that moves the price. Your card is charged the number from the call, and an itemized receipt lands in your email.

Opened without damage first, and a drill only after you agreePicks, decoders, shims and bypass tools come out before anything destructive does, so the lock is still a working lock when the van pulls away. If a cylinder genuinely will not give, you hear what it is doing, what would go on in its place and what that costs, and you make the call. Saying yes to a drill never earns anyone a bigger number.

Nobody leaves without a key or a code that worksOpening the door is half the job. The other half is that tomorrow morning is not a repeat of today: a key cut on the spot, a rekey so one key runs the front door, the garage service door and the slider, or a keypad code you choose yourself and punch in twice while the technician is still on the step. Card or tap at the door, and the itemized receipt goes to your inbox under a business name.

The garage door you drive through: from $129
The door from the garage into the house: from $118
The front door you never open: from $25/cyl

Where we work

Livermore and the Tri-Valley, any hour

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

Downtown & First Street Jensen Tract & Fifth Street Sunset East Springtown Portola & North Livermore Granada & Vineyard Windmill Springs & Tapestry Las Positas & the airport edge Pleasanton Dublin San Ramon Danville Sunol & the canyon road

(925) 493-8551

24/7 — nights, weekends & holidays

Say which of the three doors stopped you, hear the figure, and get inside

Livermore, Pleasanton, Dublin, San Ramon, Danville and Sunol, 24/7, holidays included. The garage and its service door, the slab between the garage and the kitchen, the front door you never open, a shop unit, a car or a safe: one figure comes back with the $89 visit and the hour counted inside it. And you do not get left standing in an open doorway, because the visit ends with a key or a code that works.

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