Bay Farm Island over the water: lagoon streets, condo courtyards and a business park that empties at six

Nothing on this island is old, and that shapes the whole job list. The houses went up from the seventies onward on planned streets, so the hardware is builder-grade rather than heirloom: a bored deadbolt above a knob, a slider onto a patio or a lagoon deck, and a door from the garage into the house that the household treats as the front door. That last one is the door that latches behind somebody, which is why a house lockout at $119 to $205 is the most common single call here. Where a key has worn a cylinder loose enough that a neighbor's spare rattles it over, replacement is $115 to $299 per door and the grade going on is named while the figure is being set. A rekey after a sale is $26 to $42 per cylinder, and the tally on these lots is short and predictable: front, garage side door, the door in from the garage, the patio slider, and a gate on the path if the lot backs onto water.

The condominium courtyards work differently again, and the difference is who owns which opening. A resident owns the unit door. The association owns the courtyard gate, the mail alcove, the pool gate and the door into the shared garage, and those are the ones that get left off a list until somebody is standing outside one. They go into the tally while the figure is being set rather than turning up later as a second invoice. On a lockout the courtyard gate sits inside the same visit rather than being counted as an extra door, and the cylinder is opened intact because it does not belong to the person on the path. Proof of address is asked for at the door, in the same words whether the unit is owned or rented, and a board or a manager who needs the work described in a filable line gets that line with the receipt.

Behind the houses the business park runs on its own clock: offices, labs and light assembly along Harbor Bay Parkway that lock up at six and open again before seven. A business lockout is $129 to $239 and storefront and steel door hardware is $155 to $449, counted per door, which matters in a suite with a front glass entry and a rear service door. An exit device that has stopped holding is more often dogged, out of length or knocked out of line than dead, so it gets adjusted first; genuinely finished is $289 to $739 per door. Cars sit all day in the park lots, at the ferry landing and at the golf course, so a car lockout at $99 to $189 and a fob paired at the vehicle at $89 to $185 are both steady work. Twenty-six minutes is the estimate over the bridge, and the shift change on Doolittle Drive is what stretches it. Calls are answered before seven in the morning and long after six at night, with $45 inside the figure from 8pm to midnight and $80 from midnight to 7am.