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Residential Locksmith in San Francisco

Two different jobs share this heading, and which one you have depends on which side of the hill you live on. West of Twin Peaks the work is corrosion: a rowhouse from 1938 with the garage under the living floor, a cylinder pitted through, and a household that has been jiggling the key for two years without saying it out loud. That gets a stainless replacement rather than another clean, because the third clean is more expensive than the first replacement. East of the hill the work is ordinary and human: a flat changing hands, a roommate moving out, a landlord's spare key that has been in circulation since the nineties, a mortise set from 1910 that is worth keeping and worth repinning. Cylinders get repinned rather than replaced whenever there is life left in them, and the part going on is named while the old one is still on the door.

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Residential Locksmith by Bay Gate in San Francisco

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Residential services and their price ranges

All sixteen jobs and their ranges sit on this page, nothing saved for the phone. Describe what the key is doing and the range closes to one figure on the call, with the evening or overnight hour already folded in.

Lock Rekeying

$28–$46 per cylinder

The lock stays on the door and takes new pins, which retires every key already in circulation. Sensible when a flat changes hands or a roommate moves out. $28 to $46 per cylinder, and the second cylinder costs less than the first because the van is already at the kerb. A shared street gate or lobby lock needs the building's agreement first; your own door does not.

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Lock Replacement & Installation

$125–$319

Cylinders and whole locks swapped where corrosion has gone too far to clean, and the finish is chosen out loud: brass is a consumable west of Twin Peaks, stainless is not. $125 to $319.

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Smart Lock Installation

$185–$469

A keypad or app lock set into the bore already in the door and coded for the household. On the ocean side the mechanical half still corrodes, so the model is picked with that in mind rather than for the app. $185 to $469.

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Safe Opening

$215–$559

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. $215 to $559.

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Coast to Bay, One Figure

Four things that hold the same way for a Sunset rowhouse with a garage under the living floor, an Edwardian flat off Fillmore, a Mission storefront behind a roll-down grille and a loft in SoMa. The workmanship is warranted for ninety days, named on the receipt.

One figure on the call, whether the lock seized or the door simply shut behind you. On the phone nobody knows yet which one it is, and you should not have to guess to get a price. The number quoted covers the visit, the labour and the parts either way: a cylinder full of corrosion that has to come out, a snapped blade that has to come back out of the keyway, or a door that closed behind you with a perfectly healthy lock in it. San Francisco plus Daly City, Colma, Brisbane, South San Francisco and Pacifica, 24 hours, holidays included.

The receipt shows that same figure, whatever turns up inside the keyway. A 1912 mortise set that has been painted over four times. A cylinder green with corrosion at the tailpiece. A bolt so swollen with rust it has not thrown fully since the spring. A landlord's second lock from 1987 that never matched anything. None of it moves the number. Your card is charged what you were told on the phone and an itemised receipt reaches your email before the van leaves the block.

Opened without damage first, and a drill only after you say so. Picks, decoders and bypass tools come out before anything destructive does, because a seized cylinder is often still openable and a lock that survives the visit is a lock you do not have to pay to replace. When one genuinely will not give, you hear what it is doing, what would go in its place and what that costs, and it is your call. Agreeing to a drill has never earned anyone here a larger number.

Ninety days on the work, and the part is named before it goes on. If a cylinder is being replaced you are told the make, the grade and the finish while the old one is still on the door, because on the west side the finish is the whole argument: plain brass is a consumable there, and marine-grade stainless costs more once instead of twice. Ninety days on the labour, the maker standing behind the part, and both spelled out on the receipt rather than implied.

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San Francisco plus Daly City, Colma, Brisbane, South San Francisco and Pacifica, 24 hours, holidays included. Stiff, halfway, snapped, or a healthy lock on the wrong side of a closed door: one number comes back with the $89 visit and the hour of the night already inside it, and it is the number on the receipt.

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