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Sebastopol Locksmith for Farmhouse Doors, The Barlow and the Hwy 116 Cottages
The Barlow, apple-orchard country, Victorian and farmhouse homes with hardware that follows no catalog, and a small-town main street along Hwy 116.
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26 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
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Sebastopol has the most unusual door hardware in the service area. Farmhouses in the orchard country west of town, Victorians on the streets off Main St and cottages down Hwy 116 have been modified by generations of owners, so a single door can hold a 1920s mortise case, a 1970s deadbolt and a modern keypad. The tech treats each as its own job. Old mortise cases are serviced, not tossed, when the case is sound; where a modern bolt is wanted, it is set in the door without wrecking the original. Rekeys run $19–$34 per cylinder for anything with a standard cylinder, and replacement $89–$245 when there is no saving the old set.
The Barlow and the shops along Main St and Sebastopol Ave are small storefronts with glass and wood doors, and their owners call about deadlatches that drift out of alignment and cylinders that have outlived their keys. Storefront locks run $125–$395. Car lockouts at The Barlow lots and along Hwy 116 run $92–$159. Arrival is 26 minutes from Santa Rosa on Hwy 12 or Guerneville Rd, two-lane roads that slow on summer weekends toward the Russian River. Addresses in the orchards can be a mile off the road, so the estimate assumes a clear description of the driveway.
If the house has original mortise or skeleton-key hardware, or a lock nobody can identify, say so on the call and send a photo if you can, so the tech loads the right cases and blanks the first time.
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FAQ
Asked in Sebastopol
There is no key at all for the old front door. Can one be made?+
Usually, and without taking the door apart. The cylinder is decoded on the doorstep, or the wards are read through the keyway, and a blank is filed until it seats and turns. On a warded farmhouse case that is bench work in the van while you wait. If the case is too worn to read, a replacement is quoted first.
Can an old interior door with a skeleton key be made to lock again?+
Usually. Those warded cases are simple mechanisms, and a cleaning plus a blank filed to the wards brings most of them back to life. Where a spring has gone or the case has cracked, a replacement bit lock is fitted and the original is left with you rather than thrown in the van.
Our address is a mile down an orchard lane.+
Say so on the call and describe the turn, because pins in the orchards land on the road and not on the house. Guerneville Rd and Hwy 116 both slow on summer weekends toward the river, which is already inside the twenty-six-minute estimate. Mention which building the lock is on if there is more than one.
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