24/7 · van ~11 min out

Gilroy and the south valley · 24/7

Residential Locksmith in Gilroy

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.

from $25/cyl

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11 min

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24/7

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Residential Locksmith by Daybreak in Gilroy

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Residential services and their price ranges

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.

Lock Rekeying

$25–$41 per cylinder

The 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.

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Lock Replacement & Installation

$112–$279

Deadbolts, 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.

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Smart Lock Installation

$169–$419

A 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.

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Safe Opening

$189–$495

A 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.

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On every job

Before the Shift

Four things that hold the same way at ten to five in the morning as they do at two in the afternoon, for a house off Monterey Road, a shop on the old main street, a packing shed on the east side or a truck at the kerb.

The early hour is priced like an evening, not like an emergency. Between four and seven in the morning a job carries $40 on top, which is exactly what the same job carries between eight and midnight, and less than the $70 it carries after midnight. That is deliberate. In this town the small hours are not exotic; half the working population is already awake, and charging them a panic premium for being early would be dishonest. The figure is said on the call with that already counted in.
One figure on the call, and the receipt repeats it. The number covers the visit, the labour and the parts. A cylinder that turns out to be older than the house, a strike screwed into trim instead of framing, a keypad with flat cells, a bolt that has not lined up since the last hot spell: none of that moves it. Your card is charged what you were told on the phone, and an itemised receipt reaches your email before the van leaves the street.
Cold opening first, and nothing destructive until you have agreed to it. Picks, shims and bypass tools come out before anything destructive does, so the lock is still a working lock when the van pulls away. If one genuinely will not give, you hear what it is doing, what would replace it and what that costs, and the decision is yours. Agreeing to a drill has never earned anyone here a larger number.
You leave with a key or a code that works, not just an open door. Getting you in is half of it. The other half is that tomorrow morning is not a repeat of this one: a key cut at the van for the door that had none, a rekey so one key runs the house, the shop and the side gate, or a code you choose yourself and enter twice while the technician is still standing there.

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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.

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