A locksmith whose price before you commit.

Vintage Lock & Key is a mobile locksmith service for Santa Rosa and central Sonoma County. There is no shop, because the work happens where the lock is: at your front door, beside your car in the Fairgrounds lot, at the back door of a tasting room off Old Redwood Hwy. The name is a wine-country word on purpose. A good vintage is the result of patience and exact work, and so is a lock that seats cleanly and turns without a shove. Calls are answered 24/7, including nights, weekends, holidays and the long weeks of harvest.

The pricing is built to be added up at home. Every visit starts with a $89 service call that is applied toward the work, so it never sits on the receipt as a separate line. Lockouts, rekeys, lock installs and car keys are quoted from a published range, and the exact figure for your job is named and sealed on the call. Evening arrivals between 8pm and midnight add $30, overnight arrivals between midnight and 7am add $60, and both are inside the total you approve. Master key systems and access control get a written, itemized quote after a walk-through. Once you say yes, the number is corked.

Coverage follows the shape of the city. Railroad Square and Roseland in the west and southwest, Coffey Park to the northwest, Montgomery Village and Rincon Valley across the middle and east, Bennett Valley toward the Trione-Annadel edge, Fountaingrove on the hillside and Oakmont far out along Hwy 12. The average arrival inside Santa Rosa is 22 minutes, and the hills and Oakmont honestly run closer to 30. Rohnert Park, Windsor, Sebastopol and Healdsburg are covered at the same prices, and the van reaches Petaluma when the call comes from there.