Services
Sixteen jobs we run across Livermore, each with a published range
Nothing is held back for the call: all sixteen jobs and their ranges are on this page. Say which door stopped you and the range closes to one figure on the call, with the evening or overnight hour already counted inside it.
Emergency Locksmith
The opener died in a power cut and the front door key has not been in a pocket since escrow. The keypad on the service door went flat in July. Somebody pulled the emergency release cord and the overhead door now rolls free. A car sitting locked at the ACE station lot with the keys on the seat. A shop unit off Las Positas Road where the back cylinder turned halfway and stopped. Whatever the door is, it gets opened without damage wherever the mechanism allows, so it is still the working lock in the morning. Two honest limits: we do not touch torsion springs, panels or opener motors, so when the failure is mechanical on the overhead door itself we say so plainly and get you into the house through a keyed door instead, and a door that has been kicked gets the jamb, the strike and the cylinder put back on the same visit with the work written up for whoever has to file it.
Emergency overviewHouse Lockout
$129–$225Front doors, garage service doors, the slab between the garage and the kitchen, patio sliders and side gates, opened without damage, with a key cut on the spot. $129 to $225, the $89 visit counted inside it.
Car Lockout
$109–$205Keys shut in the car at the ACE station lot, at the outlet mall, on a driveway in Granada and Vineyard or at the curb on First Street. Nothing marked on the paint or the weather seal. $109 to $205.
Business Lockout
$145–$259Shop units, kitchens, stockrooms, hangars and yard buildings opened once a lease, a badge or an owner settles who you are. $145 to $259.
Post Break-In Lock Repair
$185–$445A split jamb rebuilt through to the stud, a long strike, a fresh cylinder and a deadbolt that finally reaches the frame, in one visit and written up for an insurer. $185 to $445.
Residential Locksmith
Rekeying is the biggest half of the week here, and the reason is the same on every street. Sunset East and Springtown went up in the fifties and sixties with attached garages and hardware that is still hanging on the doors. The Jensen Tract has 1920s and 40s bungalows with a detached garage off the alley and original knob sets inside. South of Concannon the houses are new, the deadbolts came with builder keypads, and the codes were set by somebody who does not live there. In all three cases a household is carrying three keys for three doors and using none of them, so the work is to pin the front door, the garage service door and the slider onto one key, then put a deadbolt into the garage-to-house slab that never got one. Cylinders get repinned rather than replaced whenever there is life left in them, and the part going on is named before it goes on.
Residential overviewLock Rekeying
$25–$42 per cylinderThe lock stays on the door and takes new pins, which retires every key already out there. One key for the front door, the garage service door and the slider. $25 to $42 per cylinder, and the second cylinder costs less than the first because the van is already there.
Lock Replacement & Installation
$118–$299Deadbolts, knob sets and levers fitted to the bore already in the door, including a first deadbolt for the hollow-core door between the garage and the house. $118 to $299.
Smart Lock Installation
$179–$449A keypad or app lock set into the existing bore and coded for the household, the dog walker and whoever waters in August. Codes you pick, punched in twice and tested in front of you. $179 to $449.
Safe Opening
$205–$535A safe worked open by feel where it stands, whether the combination is gone or the bolts have jammed, then set to a number you choose. $205 to $535.
Commercial Locksmith
Business park units, shop roll-up bays with a keyed man-door beside them, hangars and storage yards along Las Positas Road and out by the airport, plus the brick and stone fronts downtown with flats over the top. Storefront hardware is the common failure: an aluminum glass door whose hookbolt no longer throws, a deadlatch worn round, a cylinder that binds every afternoon once the west wall heats up. Alongside that, exit devices on kitchens and warehouse man-doors, keypads and readers on staff doors, and master key systems for a landlord who wants one key over a building of tenants. The man-door beside a roll-up is ours; the roll-up mechanism itself is not, and we will tell you which one you have before anybody drives out. Master key work gets walked and counted on site first, because a building nobody has looked at cannot be priced honestly.
Commercial overviewMaster Key Systems
custom quoteOne key sitting over a key for every door, for a landlord downtown or a row of shop units off Las Positas Road. Walked and counted on site, then given as one figure.
Panic Bars & Exit Devices
$289–$739Push bars and exit devices for shops, kitchens and warehouse doors, fitted, rebuilt or brought back into line so the latch lands instead of scraping. $289 to $739 per door.
Access Control
$155–$415Keypads, readers, electric strikes and staff-door credentials for shop units, offices and yards, priced on the call rather than sent away for a quote. $155 to $415.
Storefront Door Locks
$159–$449Aluminum glass doors downtown and in the business parks: hookbolts that will not throw, worn deadlatches, tired cylinders, closers that slam. $159 to $449.
Automotive Locksmith
The ACE station lot on Railroad Avenue, the outlet mall off the freeway, driveways and RV pads in Granada and Vineyard, three-car garages south of Concannon, the yards and lots along Vasco Road and Greenville Road, and the curb outside the community center. Photo ID and the registration are matched to the plate before a blank goes near the machine. Nothing gets packed up until the engine has fired twice on the new key and the doors lock and unlock with it, and a lost key can be dropped out of the vehicle memory when you want that done. One practical note: if the car is shut inside a garage whose opener has quit, say that on the call, because the house door gets opened first and the car comes after.
Automotive overviewCar Key Replacement
$165–$409A key cut and coded in the space the car is sitting in, spare included, even when the last key is gone. $165 to $409, registration checked first.
Key Fob Programming
$89–$189A vehicle remote or proximity fob paired without moving the car anywhere. $89 to $189, and the floor there is the visit itself.
Ignition Repair
$179–$425A cylinder that will not turn, or turns and leaves the dash dead, rebuilt or swapped where the car is parked. $179 to $425.
Motorcycle Keys
$115–$265Bikes and scooters, blade cut and chip coded where the machine stands. $115 to $265.
Not sure which one fits? Describe it on the call; the price is named either way.
(925) 493-855124/7 — 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.