Santee, CA · Licensed locksmith · Mobile van
Your Santee Locksmith, From the Lakes to Your Driveway
Licensed, local, and the price is quoted on the phone before we drive. Car keys, house keys and business doors across Santee and Lakeside.
What's locked? Pick your situation
Three car problems, three house problems. Tap the one that is yours and you will land on a page written for exactly that.
Run a shop in Town Center or a unit off Prospect Ave? Locks, keys and doors for Santee businesses.
- Licensed & insured
- Price before we drive
- Santee-based van
- ID checked on every lockout
Why Santee calls a car-key locksmith first
Santee is a two-car town. Most households here have two drivers heading two directions on SR-52 and SR-125 before 7am, and plenty have a third car in the driveway for a teenager at Santana or West Hills. When one key goes missing, the whole week's logistics go with it: the school run, the Sportsplex game, the shift in Kearny Mesa.
The nearest dealer service departments are a drive down the 52 or out on the 8, and for an all-keys-lost job they will want the car towed to them and then ask you to wait for the key. We carry the blanks, the cutting machine and the programming gear in the van, so the work happens in your driveway on Mast Blvd or in the parking lot where the key disappeared. Most cars are back on the road the same day.
Who still has a key to your new place?
- The framing crew, the painter and the flooring sub, if it is a new build
- The model-home staff and every buyer who toured before you
- Four decades of owners, tenants, dog sitters and contractors, if it is a 1970s tract
- The seller's agent lockbox, and whoever borrowed a copy from it
A move-in rekey answers all of that in about an hour.
New house in Santee? Rekey before you unpack
Santee keeps adding homes: the Weston tracts across Mast Blvd from West Hills High, the Riverview and Prospect Fields townhomes, Walker Trails, plus steady resale turnover in the 1970s and '80s ranch tracts around Carlton Hills, Summercrest and Prospect Ave. New or old, you do not know who is still holding a key.
We put every exterior door, including the garage-to-house door and the side gate, on one fresh key the day escrow closes. If you would rather never carry a house key again, a keypad deadbolt does the same job and we set up the codes before we leave.
Quoted before we drive
You will hear a number on the phone before the van starts. That is the number on the invoice unless you add work once we are there. No "starting at" surprises in the driveway.
- Car lockoutfrom $95
- Spare key fobfrom $145
- Rekey, per lockfrom $95
- Smart lock installfrom $125 labor
What neighbors say
We only publish reviews from real Santee and Lakeside customers, signed with a first name and a neighborhood. This section fills in as the jobs do. Until then, ask us for a reference and we will put you in touch with a recent customer.
All over Santee and next door in Lakeside
We are based in Santee (92071) and cover every part of it, from the Carlton Oaks fairways along the river to the Sky Ranch hillside and the mobile-home parks along Mission Gorge Rd, plus Lakeside on the far side of SR-67. Typical arrival inside the city is well under an hour. You will get a real ETA when you call, not a promise made from the other side of town.
Meet your locksmith
Edward Jones runs Seven Lakes Locks and is the person who shows up in the van: 7 years in the trade, trained in San Diego, licensed by the California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, and insured. The business is named after the seven lakes where a lot of Santee kids learned to fish.
Locked out, lost a key, or planning a rekey?
Call and you will get a price and an ETA before we hang up.