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Central Park and Kiely Blvd locksmith work, for ranch houses with the knob set they were built with and a garage nobody keyed to the house
The neighbourhoods around Central Park and the Kiely Blvd corridor between Homestead Rd and Benton St: single-storey ranch houses from the 1950s and 60s, side gates onto driveways, detached garages at the back, families who have been here for decades and families who arrived last summer.
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19 min
Avg. arrival
$89
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The houses here were built in a hurry in the 1950s, and a surprising number still carry the key-in-knob lockset that came with the door. There is no deadbolt on many kitchen doors and no lock at all on the side gate. The three jobs that follow are predictable. A rekey to bring the front, the kitchen door and the garage side door onto one key is $24 to $39 per cylinder. A deadbolt added above an original knob, bored to the same backset, is a lock replacement at $109 to $299 per door. And the garage, which on these lots is detached and holds the bikes, gets a proper cylinder in place of the hasp it has had since 1962.
Lockouts on these blocks nearly all start at the side gate. Someone takes the bins out, the gate latch drops, and the front door is bolted from inside. That is $115 to $199 and it opens without damage first. Households with children and a sitter, or an aging parent and a caregiver, ask about a smart lock on the door the family actually uses, at $169 to $439, so that a code can be issued and retired instead of a fourth key living under a pot by the porch. Central Park and the swim centre bring weekend car lockouts at $95 to $179, mostly along Kiely Blvd and in the park lot off Warburton Ave.
Parking is the easy part. Every house has a driveway and the streets are wide, so the van stops at the curb and the case goes straight to the door. Arrival is about nineteen minutes, a shade more when Kiely Blvd is closed for the Art and Wine Festival in September. Evening calls carry $45 between 8pm and midnight and $80 overnight, stated inside the figure that is agreed on the call.
Count the doors, including the kitchen door, the garage side door and the gate, and say whether the garage is attached or at the back of the lot. If the house still has the original knob set, mention it. The right deadbolt and strike ride along.
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FAQ
Questions that come up on calls from Central Park & Kiely
The side gate latched behind me and there is no lock on it. Can that be sorted on the same visit?+
Yes. Once the house is open, a gate latch can take a keyed cylinder or a proper hasp so the gate stops being the weak point in the routine, and it is quoted as its own line before anything is fitted. On these lots the gate is how most people reach the bins and the back door, so it is worth doing once.
The detached garage at the back has a padlock and its own key. Can it go on the house key?+
Usually yes. A hasp and padlock can be replaced with a keyed cylinder or a deadbolt sized to the door, at $109 to $299, and pinned to the same key as the front and kitchen doors. Where the garage door is thin or warped, the technician says so at the door and fits a rim cylinder rather than boring it.
Does the September festival on Kiely Blvd change the nineteen minutes?+
For that weekend, yes. Kiely Blvd and the streets by the park close in sections and the approach shifts to Homestead Rd or Benton St. The arrival window you are given is built from the closures in force that hour. Nothing about the price changes for a festival, a weekend or a holiday.
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Calls answered 24/7 across Santa Clara and the neighbouring cities. The $89 service call, the labour and the parts are inside the number you agree to, and the receipt repeats it line for line.