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Fairview locksmith calls on the county hills east of the city, where the first lock is usually a gate at the foot of a long driveway
The unincorporated hills between D Street, Fairview Avenue and the ridge above Garin Regional Park: larger lots on curving roads, driveways that climb away from the pavement, detached garages, workshops and barns behind the houses, newer courts around Five Canyons, and a twenty-eight-minute run east from Jackson Street.
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28 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Fairview is county ground rather than city, and the lots show it. A house sits back from the road behind a gate, the driveway climbs, and there is usually more than one building on the parcel: the house, a detached garage, a workshop or a barn at the back, sometimes a second unit over the garage. The lock that fails first is rarely the front door. It is the gate latch at the foot of the drive or the side door of the garage, both of which live outdoors and take twenty years of weather before anyone thinks about them. A lockout is $115 to $199, opened without damage, and the gate is dealt with as part of the same figure rather than as a second call.
Because the parcels carry so many doors, a rekey here is counted rather than guessed. Front, back, the door from the porch, the garage side door, the workshop, the gate and, on the deeper lots, a shed at the fence line. At $24 to $39 per cylinder the count is what makes the figure, and it is taken while you are still on the phone so nothing moves later. Where a household has a gardener, a horse boarder or a contractor coming and going, a keypad at $169 to $429 on the door they actually use gives each of them a code that can be retired, and the front door keeps its cylinder. A safe left behind in a workshop or an estate is opened at $175 to $479.
Two practical things about these roads. Numbers on the curving stretches do not run in the order a map suggests, and a driveway can be a hundred yards long, so a light left on at the top is worth more after dark than any description. And the run out here is twenty-eight minutes on a good afternoon and longer when D Street is slow, which is said on the call rather than discovered on the road. Nothing is added for the distance or for the walk up the drive. Between 8pm and midnight $45 sits inside the figure and $80 after midnight, with the $89 service call inside it at any hour.
Say whether the gate at the road is on a key, a code or an electric operator, and whether the van can reach the house or has to stop at the bottom. Name the building too: the house, the garage, the workshop or a unit above the garage.
FAQ
Asked about Fairview
The driveway is long and gated at the road. Does the van come up it?+
Where the drive is clear, yes. Where it is gated, narrow or steep, the van stops at the bottom and the case is carried up, and neither costs anything. What is worth saying on the call is whether the gate is on a key, a code or an electric operator, and whether it can be released from the house, because on these lots that gate is the first lock of the visit.
Fairview is county, not city. Does that change what you charge out here?+
No. The figures on this site are the figures on these roads, and the twenty-eight minute estimate is for a normal afternoon out D Street, longer when it is slow. The van is not sent from anywhere further away because the address is unincorporated, and there is no line on the receipt for the hills or for the length of a driveway.
Which lock actually fails first on a place like this?+
The outdoor ones. A gate latch at the foot of the drive and the side door of a detached garage or workshop take twenty years of sun and rain before anyone looks at them, and they give out long before the front door does. Both are ordinary cylinders at $24 to $39 to rekey, and both can go on the same key as the house.
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The van is already in town, and the number comes before it moves
Hayward, San Lorenzo, Cherryland and Ashland, San Leandro, Castro Valley and Union City, 24/7, holidays included. Describe the door, hear one number with the $89 visit inside it, and the lock gets opened without damage wherever it can be. The receipt says what the call said. It runs the same way whether the lease is in your name or the deed is.