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Midtown locksmith service, fourteen minutes from where the van waits, for ranch houses, Eichlers and the shops along Middlefield Road
The middle of the city around Middlefield Road and Colorado Avenue: 1950s ranch houses with an attached garage, Eichlers on the side streets, sliding doors onto every yard, the shops at Midtown Center, and the streets where the van sits between calls.
4.9 / 5· 176 reviews from Palo Alto, Stanford & the towns beside them
14 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
The van is based here, and fourteen minutes is the shortest arrival on the map. A Midtown ranch house has its garage on the front, a door from the garage into the kitchen that latches on its own, a front door that gained a deadbolt around 1985 and a slider onto the patio. The lockout is the garage door: the roll-up is closed, the kitchen door has swung shut, and the family is standing on the driveway with the dog. That is $129 to $219, picked open first. Buyers moving in from apartments ask for every cylinder on one key, and that rekey is $27 to $45 each, with the garage side door and the yard gate in the count.
The Eichlers on the side streets have a flat slab front door with a knob and a deadbolt added later, an atrium gate that shuts behind whoever went to the mailbox, and glass along the entire garden side. The gate is the lockout and the sliders are the weak point; a secondary lock on each slider is a small line added to a rekey visit. A deadbolt on the slab, with a strike screwed into the post rather than the thin jamb, is a replacement at $125 to $329. Smart locks at $189 to $479 go on the door from the garage more often than on the front, so a code can be handed to a sitter for a weekend and retired on Monday.
Midtown Center and the strip along Middlefield bring storefront work at $159 to $479 and a shop lockout at opening at $139 to $255. Cars in the lot bring lockouts at $105 to $199 and a fob programmed at $89 to $195 beside the car. Because the van is minutes away, Midtown gets the late calls fastest: $55 sits inside the figure between 8pm and midnight and $90 overnight, and the $89 service call is already inside whatever figure is said.
Say whether the house is a ranch house or an Eichler and whether the trouble is the front door, the atrium gate or the door from the garage. Give the cross street; the blocks off Middlefield look alike after dark.
Nearby
The next district over, the same van and the same figures
FAQ
Asked about Midtown
The van is based in Midtown. Does that mean fourteen minutes at three in the morning?+
Often less, sometimes more. Fourteen minutes is the average for this district; at night the roads are empty, but the van may be finishing a call in Barron Park or over in Menlo Park when yours comes in. The window in your text is measured from where it is standing at that moment.
The roll-up is down and the door from the garage has latched behind us. Which one gets opened?+
Whichever gets you inside with the least done to the house, and on a ranch house that is usually the front deadbolt, picked open in a few minutes. A roll-up with no keyed lock has to be released from inside anyway, so it is seldom the way in. Say which doors the house has.
Can the shops along Middlefield Road be seen before they open?+
Yes, and early is the easiest hour to get one right. A deadlatch that lands short of its keeper, a closer that has lost its strength, a cylinder four tenants old: those are adjusted or replaced before the first customer walks in. Say what time you unlock and the window is set inside it.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
One call, one figure, and the lock kept whole
Calls answered 24/7 across Palo Alto, Stanford and the towns beside them. The $89 service call, the labor and the parts are inside the figure said on the call, the lock is opened without drilling wherever it allows, and the receipt repeats the figure.