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Washington Manor and Floresta Gardens, flat streets of fifties tract houses where the garage door is the front door
The grid south of the airport between Washington Avenue and Hesperian Boulevard. Single-story houses built in the fifties, garages facing the street, aluminum screen doors, patio sliders at the back, side gates on a hasp, and planes crossing low. Twenty-four minutes from Davis Street.
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24 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
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Ask a household on these streets which door they use and they will point at the garage. The roll-up goes up in the morning and down at night, the family passes through the inside door to the kitchen, and the brass front door is for deliveries. So the classic call here happens in the middle of the afternoon: the opener remote is clipped to a visor, the car is at work with the other adult, and a teenager is sitting on the front step at three in the afternoon with a backpack. That is a house lockout at $119 to $205, and where the garage has its own side door that route gets tried first because it is the least intrusive way in. Nothing gets drilled to save time, and if drilling ever became the answer it would need agreement first and would not lift the number.
The hardware on these houses is a layer cake. Original builder knob on the front, a deadbolt added in the eighties, an aluminum screen door in front of both with its own little lock and its own separate key that nobody can find. That screen door lock is the most common small repair in the district; the keeper works loose from thin aluminum and the whole door then rattles rather than latching, which is a fifteen minute fix rather than a new door. On a purchase or after a lost ring, putting the property onto one key is $26 to $42 per cylinder, and the tract house tally is mercifully short: front, back, garage side door, yard gate, sometimes a shed. A front knob worn to the point that a spare wiggles it open is replaced at $115 to $299, with the grade said out loud beforehand.
Patio sliders come up on nearly every visit, and the honest answer is that the factory catch is a light-duty part and a new one is the same light-duty part again. A pin driven through the frame at the height of the catch stops the panel travelling and stops it lifting out of the track, and it is added as a small line on whatever else is being done rather than being sold as its own visit. Families running a caregiver, a babysitter or teenagers who lose keys twice a term put a smart lock at $179 to $449 on the door from the garage, because a code that arrives by text beats a key hidden under a planter. Hours here follow the school run and the shift change. Evening adds $45 and overnight $80, already inside the quoted figure.
Say whether the problem is the front, the screen door, the slider, the yard gate or the inside door from the garage, and whether the roll-up is down with the remote out of reach. Give a cross street off Washington, Floresta or Hesperian, since these blocks repeat.
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The roll-up is down and the remote is in the car. Is there another way in?+
Often, and it gets tried first. A good many of these houses have a side door into the garage or a patio slider that reaches the inside door to the kitchen. Say which of those exist when you call. Nothing is drilled to save time here, and a drill would need your yes and would not raise the figure.
Is the aluminum screen door worth fixing, or does it need replacing?+
Fixing, nearly always. What fails is the keeper working loose from thin aluminum, so the door rattles in the frame instead of latching. Refixing it into sound material takes about fifteen minutes and goes on as a small line beside whatever else is being done, rather than as a visit of its own.
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Houses in the morning, shop floors after, and the figure said before either one starts
San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Ashland, Oakland, the airport and Doolittle strip, and Alameda across the channel, 24/7, holidays included. Describe the door, hear one figure with the $89 visit inside it and the unit it is counted in, and the lock gets opened without damage wherever it can be. The receipt says what the call said, whether the deed is in your name or the lease is.