Nearby city · 24/7
Benicia: the other old town on the strait, across the bridge, where the doors are the same age as ours
The town directly across the water, reached over the bridge: nineteenth-century houses on the grid above the waterfront, a main street of shopfronts with offices above them, and an industrial park out at the eastern edge. Twenty-six minutes from the van.
~26 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Benicia is the one neighbor where the hardware reads like home. Houses on the old grid carry cast cases set into the edge of the door with a long narrow plate over them, and the same two things defeat them: dried grease inside the mechanism and paint built up on the edge of the leaf until the bolt cannot make the last of its travel. Both are servicing rather than replacement, with a cylinder repinned at $27 to $44 and the paint taken off the stop and the strike reset. Where a case has cracked at the bolt, replacement is $119 to $315 and the new hardware sits behind the original plate so the front of the house is unchanged from the sidewalk. A house lockout is $125 to $229 and the whole task on a door of that age is getting in without harming a lock nobody manufactures any more. Along the main street the work is commercial: storefront door locks at $152 to $449 per opening, business lockouts at $135 to $245, and exit devices at $289 to $739 per door on the rear exits behind the shops. Out at the industrial park it is steel doors in steel frames and gates on yards. Twenty-six minutes is the estimate and the bridge is the part that varies, which is said when the figure is said. The toll is not billed to you and nothing is added for the crossing.
For a house on the old grid, say whether the lock sits in the edge of the door and whether the door has to be pushed before it will lock, since paint and mechanism are two different jobs. For the main street, say whether it is the shop front, a rear door onto the lane, or the street door to a stair.
Benicia sits at the edge of the map the van covers, so arrival runs about 26 minutes. Every service and price on this site applies there, with nothing added for the distance.
Nearby
Over the hill, the same van
FAQ
Asked about Benicia
Does the bridge get added to the bill?+
No. The toll is ours and the figure you are quoted is the Martinez figure with nothing on top of it. What the bridge changes is the wait: twenty-six minutes is the estimate on a clear run, and when the approach is backed up you hear the longer number on the call rather than while standing on a porch.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
Say whether the key meets a keyhole or a cylinder, and the rest of the call is quick
Martinez and the towns around the strait, around the clock. What sits in the edge of the leaf decides the work and the work decides the number, which is settled on the phone with the $89 visit and any late hour already inside it. It reads the same on the receipt. Ninety days on the labor, a rebuilt bronze case covered the same as a new lock.