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Terra Linda and Marinwood locksmith visits, for Eichlers with a glass wall and ranch houses with a garage on the front
The flat streets north of the hill: Eichlers with an atrium and a slab front door, ranch houses from the 1950s and 60s with an attached garage, sliding glass doors onto every yard, medical suites around Kaiser, the Northgate lots, and Marinwood further up 101 with the same houses and a community center.
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21 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
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An Eichler front door is a flat slab with a knob and often no deadbolt, because the house was built to be entered through an atrium gate that nobody locked in 1958. The atrium gate is where lockouts happen now, $125 to $215, when it latches behind someone watering the plants. The sensible fix on a house like this is a deadbolt on the slab, a lock replacement at $119 to $319, with a strike that reaches the post rather than the thin jamb. Sliding glass doors run the length of the yard side, and each gets a secondary lock rather than a new latch; the latch it came with was never meant to hold anything. A rekey of every cylinder is $26 to $43 each, and on an Eichler the count is short.
The ranch houses on the streets around Northgate are a different kind of door: an attached garage on the front, a kitchen door into the garage that self-latches, a front door that got a deadbolt in 1985 and a sliding door onto the patio. The garage door into the house is the lockout, when the roll-up is down and the kitchen door has clicked shut. Houses here change hands to families now, and the first visit after a sale is a rekey of every cylinder to one key, garage side door included. Marinwood is the same housing ten minutes further north, and the estimate on the call says which end of the district the address is at.
The medical suites around Kaiser and the small offices near the Civic Center bring a suite lockout at $135 to $249 and exit devices at $299 to $779 per device, usually at opening. The Northgate lots and the Kaiser structure bring car lockouts at $99 to $195 and a fob programmed at $105 to $199. Arrival is about twenty-one minutes by way of 101 and the Freitas exit, and the $89 service call is inside every figure named on the call.
Say whether the house is an Eichler or a ranch house, and whether the trouble is the atrium gate, the front door or the door from the garage. For Marinwood, say so. The streets there are named like the ones in Terra Linda and the estimate is a few minutes longer.
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FAQ
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An Eichler front door has no deadbolt. Can one be added without spoiling the slab?+
It can. The slab takes a standard bore, and the deadbolt is set so the strike reaches the framing post rather than the thin jamb, which is where these doors give. The original handle stays. Say on the call whether the door is the original slab or a later replacement, because the thicknesses differ and the right parts should be on the van.
The sliding glass doors run the length of the yard. Is a new latch worth fitting?+
Rarely. The latch a slider came with was never meant to hold much, and replacing it with the same part gives the same result. A secondary lock at the top of the frame, or a keyed pin through it, does more and costs less, and the glass is not touched. Count the sliders before you call: the figure is per door.
Our medical suite near Kaiser opens at seven thirty. Can the work be done before patients arrive?+
Yes, and it usually is. Suite work here is booked for the hour before opening, so a lever, a closer or an exit device is dealt with while the corridor is empty. Say which suite it is and whether the building has its own outer door, since that door is often on the landlord key and decides who needs to be there.
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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.