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Locksmith in Temescal, Bushrod and Shafter

Temescal's Telegraph Avenue strip, the Craftsman streets of Bushrod and Shafter, and the blocks around MacArthur BART and the children's hospital.

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Local notes

Craftsman houses and duplexes

Temescal and Bushrod are full of early-1900s Craftsman houses and duplexes. Original doors with glass panels are common, and they need locks fitted with care. A deadbolt can usually go in without harming the door if the stile is wide enough.

Many houses here have been split into two units. That means two front doors, a shared side path and sometimes a shared garage, each needing its own key plan.

Talk to dispatch

Give dispatch the street, the cross street and the lock type. You hear an approximate estimate before a locksmith is sent.

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Typical calls

What people here call about

Homes

  • Duplex key plans
  • Deadbolts on glass-panel doors
  • Garage side-door locks

Businesses

  • Telegraph Avenue restaurants
  • Small offices near MacArthur BART

More notes

Telegraph Avenue businesses

Temescal's cafés, restaurants and boutiques open early and close late. Back doors to the alley see heavy use, and keys tend to multiply among staff. Rekeying after a busy hiring season is common.

Around the hospital and MacArthur BART, medical offices and apartment buildings ask about cabinet locks and keyed-alike suites.

Bushrod and Shafter have many owner-occupied duplexes where the owner lives upstairs and rents the lower unit. Keys tend to drift over years of tenants. A clean key plan helps: the tenant's key opens their unit and the shared side gate, the owner's key opens everything. It takes one rekey visit. On Telegraph Avenue itself, a few older buildings still have upstairs apartments above shops reached by a narrow street door. That street door's latch and closer deserve regular attention; if it fails to latch, everyone upstairs is less secure.

Getting there

Parking and landmarks

Street parking near Telegraph is tight at lunch and dinner. MacArthur BART, the Temescal library and the freeway overpass are easy landmarks.

Questions

Questions from this part of Oakland

Can you fit a deadbolt on a door with a glass panel?

Usually, if the stile is wide enough. A double-cylinder deadbolt is sometimes suggested; check fire rules first.

We share a duplex. Can each unit have its own key and the gate a shared one?

Yes. That's a simple master key setup.

Do you cover Shafter?

Yes, Shafter sits in 94609.

Can you rekey a café's back door after a staff change?

Yes, and keep a list of who holds the new keys.

Starting prices

Posted rates are the same citywide.

Starting prices
Service Call Fee - Trip Charge$29.00 (fixed)
All Lockout Service: Commercial, Residential & Automotivestarting at $19.00*
Locks Re-Key: Commercial & Residentialstarting at $19.00*
Lock Repair: Commercial & Residentialstarting at $19.00*
Key Extraction: Commercial & Residentialstarting at $19.00*
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