ZIP 94705 · Elmwood & Claremont
Locksmith in 94705: Elmwood and Claremont
The Elmwood's shopping blocks on College Avenue, the brown-shingle streets around them and the Claremont hills rising toward the old hotel make up 94705.
- Rough price before anyone comes
- Brown-shingles to student flats
- Ask for the BSIS licence
Ring 01 · Elmwood & Claremont
Brown-shingles and period doors
Elmwood and Claremont houses often date from the early 1900s, with heavy wooden doors, leaded side lights and original mortise locks. Repairing and rekeying keeps that hardware working; adding a deadbolt where the door allows strengthens it without changing the character.
French doors and garden doors
Many houses open to the garden through French doors that rely on a single latch. Flush bolts top and bottom on the inactive leaf, plus a proper deadbolt, make them much harder to force.
Claremont hills
Higher up, houses sit on steep lots with garages at the street and stairs to the door, or the other way round. Several entrances are typical: front, garage, deck, basement. Keying them alike is the most requested job.
College Avenue shops
Elmwood's shops and cafés have older storefronts with cylinders that are quick to rekey after staff changes.
If you're on a stepped path rather than a street, tell dispatch; the locksmith will plan the walk in.
Ring 02 · Typical calls
Calls we take in 94705
- Mortise lock repair
- French door security
- Keying hill houses alike
- Deadbolt additions
- Shop rekeys
- Car lockouts on hill roads
Narrow hill roads above Claremont Avenue have little room to stop. Tell dispatch where a vehicle can pull over safely, and whether there are stairs.
Garden gates along shared paths between hill streets often have old latches with keyed cylinders. They can be rekeyed to the house key. Older Elmwood houses also tend to have basement doors to the yard with only a hook latch inside; a proper deadbolt there closes a common gap.
Elmwood houses near the commercial blocks of College Avenue also have narrow side passages to the back garden with wooden gates. A keyed gate latch, rather than a padlock on a hasp, is easier to use every day and can share the house key.
Ring 03 · Questions
Elmwood and Claremont questions
Can a deadbolt be added to a period door?
Usually, placed to complement the original lock.
Are French doors a weak point?
Single-latch ones are; flush bolts and a deadbolt help.
Can all my hill-house doors take one key?
Often, if the locks share a keyway.
Do you cover the Claremont side of the hills?
Yes, the Berkeley side in 94705.
Reach us directly
- 510-964-3261
- info@locksmithinberkeleycalifornia.com
- Berkeley, CA 94710 (dispatch location, no walk-in storefront)
- Monday through Sunday, All day
- All major credit cards
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Talk to dispatch
Give the street and the nearest cross street, say what's locked and how the door is reached — stairs, side path, gate or a building buzzer.
- 510-964-3261
- Monday through Sunday, All day
- Berkeley, CA 94710 (dispatch location)
- All major credit cards