About
A locksmith whose rate before you commit.
Mobile across San Rafael and the Marin towns beside it, any hour, with the full figure named before the van leaves the yard. Here is how a visit runs and what is put in writing.
Marin Lock & Key is a mobile locksmith for San Rafael and the Marin towns beside it. The name carries the county because that is how people here describe where they live, and the mark is Mount Tamalpais, which is in view from most of the streets the van drives. There is no shop, because a lock is not something you carry to a counter. The van holds what San Rafael doors take: mortise cases and cylinders for the 1900s and 1920s houses in Gerstle Park and around Mission Avenue, sliding-door locks and levers for the Eichlers and ranch houses in Terra Linda and Marinwood, keypad and app locks for guest houses, the condos at Loch Lomond and the rentals in the Canal, gate cylinders and keypad modules for the driveways of Dominican and Lucas Valley, aluminum deadlatches and hookbolts for the glass doors on Fourth Street, strike plates and jamb reinforcement, exit devices, readers, and blanks and programmers for most cars on the road, hybrids and EVs included. Calls are answered 24/7, nights, weekends and holidays.
Pricing is arranged so that it can be checked. Every job carries an $89 service call, and it is counted inside the figure named on the call rather than added at the end. A house lockout runs $125 to $215, a rekey $26 to $43 per cylinder, replacement hardware $119 to $319 per door, a car key $149 to $409. Arrival between 8pm and midnight adds $55 and between midnight and 7am adds $90, both inside the figure before you decide. Marin is not an inexpensive county and the figures do not pretend otherwise; what they do is stay put. Master key systems and access control are quoted after the doors have been counted, because the cost depends on how many doors there are and who should open which. Once named, the figure is the figure on the card, and the receipt repeats it.
Coverage runs the length of the city along 101 and past its line. Downtown and Fourth Street see the van in about 15 minutes, Gerstle Park, Dominican and the Canal in 17, Sun Valley and Fairhills in 19, Terra Linda and Marinwood in 21, Peacock Gap and Point San Pedro in about 24, and Lucas Valley in about 26 at the top of its long driveways. Across the whole city the average is 21 minutes. San Anselmo, Larkspur, Corte Madera, Mill Valley and Novato are served at the same figures, between 21 and 30 minutes, with the one road out along Point San Pedro Rd or the length of Lucas Valley Rd named as the reason on the call when a window runs long.
Named Before the Van Leaves
The full figure is named on the call. The van leaves the yard afterward. Four parts, each one kept.
- Margaret W., Gerstle Park
- $148
- Tomás A., Dominican
- $259
- Priya N., Downtown & Fourth Street
- $154
"The figure named on the call was the figure on the receipt, to the dollar."
"Five cylinders, one figure, and the gate closed behind him the way he found it."
"The evening hour was already inside the figure before I thought to ask."
Where we work
San Rafael & the Marin towns beside it, any hour
Pick your area for its own arrival time and the jobs we run there most.
24/7 — nights, weekends & holidays
One call, one full figure, the same figure on the receipt
Calls answered 24/7 across San Rafael and the Marin towns beside it. The $89 service call, the labor, the parts and the drive up the hill are inside the figure named on the call, and the receipt repeats it.