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Bennett Valley Locksmith for Long Driveways, Outbuildings and Old Mortise Sets
Ranch homes and small acreage in the southeast, near the golf course and the Annadel edge, with detached garages, shops and a share of mortise and rim locks that predate the tract era.
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22 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Bennett Valley is where Santa Rosa stops being a grid. Ranch-style houses sit back from Bennett Valley Rd and Yulupa Ave on lots big enough for a barn, a shop or a second garage, and every one of those outbuildings has a door with a lock someone bought decades ago. A whole-property rekey here means counting the house, the detached garage, the shop and the gate, and the price stays at $19–$34 per cylinder however many there are. Older houses toward Trione-Annadel State Park sometimes still carry a mortise lock or a surface-mounted rim lock. Those get worked on their own terms. The tolerance inside an old mortise case is not the tolerance of a modern cylinder, and the goal is a fit that turns cleanly, not a swap that leaves a scar in the door.
Driveways are the honest reason the estimate sits at 22 minutes. The roads are clear, but the last two hundred feet are often gravel with no house number at the road. Lockouts are frequently a detached garage or a shop door whose key went into the truck that is now also locked, and those are handled as a house lockout at $99–$175. The Bennett Valley Golf Course lot produces a few car lockouts a month. Safe openings come up in the older houses, usually an inherited floor safe with no combination on record, at $150–$450, with the tech saying beforehand whether the safe will still be usable afterward.
Describe the driveway and any gate, and say if the lock is on an outbuilding rather than the house, so the tech parks in the right place and brings the right cylinders.
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Reached from the same van, on the same terms
FAQ
Asked in Bennett Valley
Can the shop and the detached garage be rekeyed on the same visit as the house?+
Yes, and that is the usual Bennett Valley job. Count every cylinder before you call: house doors, garage, shop, well house, gate. The rate holds at $19–$34 per cylinder however many there are, and all of them can end up on one key. Two hours covers a property carrying nine or ten locks.
The back door has an old mortise lock. Does it have to go?+
Not if the case is sound. A mortise lock gets serviced on its own terms: cleaned, re-pinned where the cylinder allows, with the blank filed by hand until the key seats. The tolerances are not modern ones and the work takes longer, which is said on the call. Replacement only comes up once the case itself has cracked.
There is no number at the end of my driveway.+
Say so on the call and describe the last turn: the colour of the gate, the mailbox cluster, the oak at the corner. Gravel drives out toward Annadel run a few hundred feet and map pins land at the road, not the house. Mention where the van should park too, especially if the lock is on an outbuilding.
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