Residential locksmith
Lockouts, rekeying after a move, deadbolts, mailbox and gate locks, and door hardware for brown-shingle houses, duplexes and apartment buildings.
No. 1UC campus & P.O. boxes
Locksmith for UC campus and Berkeley P.O.-box ZIPs
Three Berkeley ZIP codes are not ordinary streets: 94720 is the University of California campus, and 94701 and 94712 are used for post office boxes.
- Price before work
- Mobile service
- All major credit cards
No. 2Local
Lock and key help in UC campus & P.O. boxes
Berkeley has a few ZIP codes that carry mail rather than houses. 94720 belongs to the University of California campus itself, from Sather Gate and the central glade up to the labs on the hill. 94701 and 94712 are used mainly for post office boxes. If one of these appears on your mail, the lock and key jobs you need are probably at a home, an apartment or a car somewhere else, and this page explains what can and cannot be done.
Campus buildings, residence halls and their doors are looked after by the university's own facilities staff. A private locksmith will not rekey a lecture hall, a lab or a dormitory door, and a request for those goes through the department or housing office. What a locksmith can do is help students, staff and visitors with their own property: a car locked in a campus-area garage, a lost key to an off-campus apartment, or a desk, safe or cabinet that you own.
People with a P.O. box often have a reason, such as a home business, a landlord role across several properties or a household that moves often. Those bring jobs like a small home office safe whose combination is forgotten, a filing cabinet with records, or a set of rentals that all need rekeying in one planned day.
Visitors to campus events at the stadium or the concert halls sometimes lock their keys in the car in a nearby garage or on a side street. Have the make, model and year ready, and say which garage or which street when you call. Staff who keep a personal safe or a locked drawer of their own at work should check with their department before any lock work is done on university furniture, since some cabinets belong to the university.
Typical calls here
- Car lockouts in garages near campus
- Lost keys to off-campus apartments (with proof of residence)
- Home office safes and file cabinets
- Private and cluster mailbox locks
- Rekeying several rental properties in one trip
- Spare car keys for people who travel often
No. 3Services
Services on offer
Commercial locksmith
Shop and office lockouts, master key plans, high-security cylinders, panic hardware, keypads and file cabinet locks for Berkeley businesses.
Automotive locksmith
Keys locked in the car, snapped keys, replacement and transponder keys, remotes and ignition trouble, handled where the car is parked.
Emergency locksmith
Locked out at night, a key broken in the cylinder, or a door that will not lock after a break-in. Call, describe it, get a price first.
No. 4Questions
Questions from UC campus & P.O. boxes
Can a locksmith open my dorm room?
No. Residence hall doors belong to the university, so contact the housing office or the residence desk.
Can you replace my P.O. box lock?
No. Post office box locks belong to the Postal Service; ask at the post office. Private and building mailboxes are a different matter, and those can be replaced.
I manage rentals across several ZIP codes. Can they all be rekeyed?
Yes. List the addresses and the number of doors so the dispatcher can quote the work and plan the route.
No. 6Callback
Ask for a callback
Write down your name, number and the problem in a line or two. A dispatcher rings back to check the address, the lock and the price, and only then books the visit.