Services
Sixteen jobs we run across the valley, each with a published range
All sixteen jobs and their ranges are on this page, and so is the hour. Say what time it is and what happened, and the range closes to one figure on the call with the hour already counted in.
Emergency Locksmith
A front door that closed behind somebody carrying a travel mug and nothing else. A key snapped off in a cold cylinder at ten past five. A truck locked with the tools inside and the site opening at seven. A packing shed personnel door that will not turn on the morning a load is due out. Keys shut in a car in the outlet lot. Whatever it is, it gets opened without damage wherever the mechanism allows, so it goes back to being a working lock rather than a hole in a door. Two honest limits, said in the first minute rather than in your driveway: garage door springs, panels, cables and opener motors belong to a different trade, and a door that has been forced gets the jamb, the strike and the cylinder put back on the same visit, written up plainly for whoever has to file it.
Emergency overviewHouse Lockout
$119–$209Front doors, side gates, garage service doors and patio sliders opened without damage, with a key cut on the spot. $119 to $209, the $89 visit sitting inside it, and the early-morning hour priced like an evening.
Car Lockout
$99–$189Keys shut in the car on a driveway before dawn, in the outlet lot, at a yard off Luchessa or at the kerb outside a job. Nothing marked on the paint or the weather seal. $99 to $189.
Business Lockout
$135–$239Sheds, cold stores, shops, stockrooms and yard buildings opened once a lease, a badge or an owner settles who you are — including at five in the morning, when it stops a crew rather than a person. $135 to $239.
Post Break-In Lock Repair
$169–$409A split jamb rebuilt through to the stud, a long strike, a fresh cylinder and a bolt that finally reaches the frame, in one visit and written up for an insurer. $169 to $409.
Residential Locksmith
Three kinds of house share this town and they fail differently. The 1980s and 1990s streets north of the centre have attached garages, builder hardware still on the doors, and households carrying three keys for three doors. The older bungalows on the east side have deep porches, original knob sets and a detached garage down a side driveway. The newer streets on the west side came with keypad deadbolts and codes set by somebody who does not live there. The commonest job on all three is the same: bring the front door, the side gate and the garage service door onto one key, at $25 to $41 per cylinder, and put a proper deadbolt where a house only ever had a latch. Cylinders get repinned rather than replaced whenever there is life in them, and the part going on is named before it goes on.
Residential overviewLock Rekeying
$25–$41 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 side gate and the garage service door. $25 to $41 per cylinder, and the second cylinder costs less than the first because the van is already at the kerb.
Lock Replacement & Installation
$112–$279Deadbolts, knob sets and levers fitted to the bore already in the door, including a first proper deadbolt for a door that only ever had a latch. $112 to $279.
Smart Lock Installation
$169–$419A keypad or app lock set into the existing bore and coded for the household, the crew that comes early and whoever waters in August. Codes you pick, entered twice and tested in front of you. $169 to $419.
Safe Opening
$189–$495A 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. $189 to $495.
Commercial Locksmith
Packing sheds and cold stores on the east and south edges of town, roll-up bays with a keyed personnel door beside them, yard gates and their padlocks, the brick shopfronts on the old main street with flats above, and the retail units and warehouses out along the 101 corridor. The pattern here is the hour rather than the hardware: a shed opens at five, a shop opens at nine, and a lock that fails does not stop one person, it stops a crew and a load. Exit devices on kitchens and warehouse man-doors, keypads and readers on staff doors, and master key systems for a landlord holding a row of units. The man-door beside a roll-up is ours; the roll-up mechanism itself is not, and you will be told 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 on the main street or a row of units off the 101. Walked and counted on site, then given as one figure.
Panic Bars & Exit Devices
$269–$699Push bars and exit devices for shops, kitchens and warehouse doors, fitted, rebuilt or brought back into line so the latch lands instead of scraping. $269 to $699 per door.
Access Control
$145–$389Keypads, readers, electric strikes and staff-door credentials for shops, sheds and small offices, priced on the call rather than sent away for a quote. $145 to $389.
Storefront Door Locks
$149–$419Aluminium glass doors on the old main street and out along the highway: hookbolts that will not throw, worn deadlatches, tired cylinders, closers that slam. $149 to $419.
Automotive Locksmith
Half of Gilroy works an hour away, which makes the car a working tool rather than a convenience, and a lost key a missed shift rather than an inconvenience. Work happens where the vehicle stands: a driveway at half past five with the engine due to start, the outlet lot on a Saturday, a yard off Luchessa, the kerb outside a job site, the Caltrain lot at the south end of the line. Photo ID and the registration are matched to the plate before a blank goes near the machine. Nothing gets packed away 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.
Automotive overviewCar Key Replacement
$155–$379A key cut and coded in the space the vehicle is sitting in, spare included, even when the last key is gone. $155 to $379, registration checked first.
Key Fob Programming
$89–$179A vehicle remote or proximity fob paired without moving the car anywhere. $89 to $179, and the floor there is the visit itself.
Ignition Repair
$169–$395A cylinder that will not turn, or turns and leaves the dash dead, rebuilt or swapped where the vehicle is parked. $169 to $395.
Motorcycle Keys
$109–$245Bikes and scooters, blade cut and chip coded where the machine stands. $109 to $245.
Not sure which one fits? Say which of the three doors it is. The figure comes back either way.
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Say the hour and what stopped you, hear the figure, get to work on time
Gilroy plus San Martin, Hollister, Aromas, San Juan Bautista and Watsonville, around the clock, every day. Four to seven in the morning costs what an evening costs and less than a night, and whatever hour it is, the number comes back on the call with the $89 visit already inside it — and it is the number on the receipt.