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Locksmith in Campbell
A small downtown of independent shops and restaurants, a ring of pre-war bungalows around it, and the offices and retail at the Pruneyard.
4.9 / 5· 312 reviews from San Jose & South Bay
22 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Locksmith work in Campbell, from the shopfronts on the main street to the bungalows behind them
Campbell is twenty-two minutes out and splits neatly in two. The commercial half is the downtown strip and the Pruneyard: aluminium-and-glass shop doors on deadlatches, restaurant back doors that open at six in the morning, and office suites above the retail. Storefront work is $155 to $465, and the first thing checked is never the lock — it is the pivots and the closer, because a door that has to be pulled towards you before the key will turn is a door whose closer has stopped pulling the leaf the last half inch. Shops with a front door, a back door onto the service alley and a stockroom are usually running three different keys for no reason other than the years they were fitted, and keying them alike on one visit ends the habit of propping one open.
The residential half is the streets of bungalows and small houses around the centre, many of them pre-war and most on hardware old enough to be worth keeping. Rekeying at $26 to $42 a cylinder retires every key that ever existed without changing anything visible; where a cylinder is too worn to hold a fresh pinning, that door is named on the day with the replacement figure beside it. House openings are $118 to $209 with the tiers counted in, and on a period door the point of the visit is to open it and leave a ninety-year-old lock still working.
For a shop door, say whether it is glass in an aluminium frame or a solid door, and whether there is a closer on it. That decides what rides on the van, and it is the difference between one visit and two.
Asked in Campbell
Our shop door needs a shove before it locks. Lock or door?+
Door, nearly always the closer. It has lost the force that pulls the leaf the final half inch, so the latch never reaches its strike and someone has been making up the difference by hand. Right now the shop is only locked when a person remembers to pull it, which means some nights it is not locked at all. It is an adjustment or a closer replacement rather than a new lock.
Can the front, back and stockroom doors use one key?+
Usually yes, on the same visit, at $26 to $42 a cylinder. It is the change independent shops here notice most, because a staff member carrying three keys is a staff member who will eventually prop one door open rather than hunt for the right one.
FAQ
Asked at 2am, answered here
How fast can you actually get to me?+
Our average arrival across San Jose is about 20 minutes, and you get a realistic ETA for your exact neighborhood before the van moves. If we can't make a time you're happy with, you pay nothing.
Is the price you quote on the phone really final?+
Yes — that's the Fair-Price Pledge. The service call and the labor for your exact job are named before dispatch, and the invoice matches it. The only thing that can change the price is you changing the job.
Will you have to drill my lock?+
Almost never. We open the vast majority of doors with picks and decoders. Drilling is a last resort for some high-security cylinders, and it only happens with your explicit OK and a replacement plan agreed first.
Do you ask for ID?+
Yes, always — we verify you live or work at the property before opening anything. A locksmith who doesn't ask is a locksmith you shouldn't let near your door.
How do I know your tech is legit when they arrive?+
Before arrival you get a text with your technician's name and photo. They arrive in branded workwear, and payment is by card with an itemized digital invoice — never cash-only.
Do you serve my area at night?+
We cover San Jose and the surrounding South Bay — Santa Clara, Campbell, Milpitas, Cupertino, Los Gatos and Saratoga — 24/7 including holidays. Overnight jobs carry a flat +$50 listed right on our pricing table.
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