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Original Hardware and Late Dinners: Locksmith Service in Railroad Square
Stone buildings from the 1900s, antique shops, restaurants and the SMART depot west of Hwy 101, where the hardware is original and the lockouts happen after dinner.
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14 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Railroad Square is the oldest working district in Santa Rosa, and its doors show it. The stone buildings along Fourth St and Wilson St were built for a rail town, and behind their newer glass storefronts many still carry original mortise cases, rim locks and thick wood doors that a chain hardware store cannot help with. The tech works these non-destructively first. When a restaurant wants a modern commercial cylinder in a hundred-year-old door, the job is to seat it plumb without chewing up the stile. Storefront and restaurant door locks run $125–$395, and business lockouts $109–$199. Hotel La Rose and the smaller inns nearby call about guest-room keys and back-of-house doors.
The 14-minute estimate is the shortest in the city. The district is compact, flat and close to the Hwy 101 ramps, and the SMART train depot lot and the garages on Third St are easy to find. The pattern is nocturnal. Dinner ends, keys are on a table inside a locked car or inside a locked apartment above a shop, and the call comes in between 9 pm and midnight. Car lockouts run $92–$159 and house lockouts $99–$175, plus the $30 evening rate, all sealed on the call. Antique dealers sometimes ask for keys cut to an old lock they are selling; where the blank still exists, that is done by hand on the van.
Say which side of the tracks the door faces and whether it is the street door or the alley door, since many Railroad Square buildings have both and the alley is where the tech can park.
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FAQ
Asked in Railroad Square
Can a modern cylinder go into a hundred-year-old door?+
Yes, and it should go in without leaving a scar. The work is measuring the existing prep, seating the cylinder plumb in the stile and packing the case so nothing racks when the wood swells in winter. On the stone-fronted buildings off Fourth St that fitting takes longer than the part costs, which is what the quote reflects.
Should the tech come to the street door or the alley?+
Say which on the call. Most Railroad Square buildings have both, the alley is where a van can actually stop, and the door with the problem is not always the one carrying the address. Naming the side of the tracks helps too, since the depot side is approached differently once a train is through.
It is nearly midnight and my keys are shut in the car by the depot.+
That is the most common call in the district. A car lockout is $92–$159 plus the $30 evening rate between 8 pm and midnight, sealed as one figure before anyone drives. Fourteen minutes is the shortest arrival on this site, and the depot lot and the Third St garages are easy to find in the dark.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
One call, one sealed price, anywhere in Santa Rosa
Calls answered 24/7. The number named on the call is the number on your card receipt, with the $89 service call applied toward the work.