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Granada and Vineyard: seventies and eighties houses, side gates, and a boat on the pad beside the driveway
The south-east quarter below East Avenue. Two-story houses from the seventies and eighties, deep driveways with an RV or a boat on the pad alongside, keyed side gates onto the back yards, and sheds at the end of most lots. Twenty-one minutes.
4.9 / 5· 194 reviews from Livermore and the Tri-Valley
~21 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
These properties carry more openings than any other kind of address in Livermore, and the mistake people make is calling about one of them. Walk a typical lot and you have the front door, the service door on the side of the garage, the door from the garage into the laundry room, a slider onto the patio, a keyed gate on either flank and a shed at the back. A rekey is $25 to $42 per cylinder and the whole tally goes out as one figure with the $89 visit counted a single time. Count the openings before you call, gate and shed included, and the price is settled in one pass instead of three.
The garage still does the work here. Two cars go in, the family comes through into the laundry room, and that door is a hollow-core slab with a knob and no deadbolt, standing between the house and the least secure part of the property. Fitting a proper deadbolt on it is $118 to $299 for that door. That is the number, and there is nothing more to say about it than that. When the opener stops in an outage the household is back to a front door key that has been in a drawer since escrow closed, which is when the phone rings; a house lockout is $129 to $225 and the lock still works afterward.
The pad beside the driveway generates its own work. Hitch and coupler locks, a padlock on a trailer box, a cover strapped over a bike that lives out there through the winter. Motorcycle keys are $115 to $265 when the only key has been gone since the last time the bike was ridden, cut and coded where it stands. Padlocks left in the sun on these driveways seize from the inside while the key still turns freely, and they come off and get replaced with a shrouded body rather than being persuaded for twenty minutes.
The side gate is quietly the most important lock on a lot this shape, because on a deep property it is the only thing between the driveway and the back of the house. A keyed latch that has seized after a wet winter gets opened and rebuilt rather than cut off. Where a gate has been forced, or a slider jimmied off its catch, repair is $185 to $445 with the frame, the strike and the cylinder itemized on the emailed receipt. A Saturday night counts the same as a Monday noon, $45 in the figure from 8pm and $80 from midnight, both named when the figure is.
Walk the property and count every opening before calling, gates, shed and the door from the garage into the laundry included, so one figure takes in the lot. If a boat or an RV is parked across the side yard, say so, since it decides how the technician reaches the back of the house.
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FAQ
Asked about Granada & Vineyard
There is a boat across my side yard. Does that hold anything up?+
Only if we find out at the door. Say it on the call and the technician plans the walk to the back of the house around it, or works the front and the garage service door instead. Twenty-one minutes is the drive; a blocked side yard has cost people more time than the drive ever has.
Which lock down here matters most and gets ignored most?+
The side gate. On a deep lot it is the only thing between the driveway and the back of the house, and nobody thinks about it until a wet winter seizes the latch. A seized keyed latch is opened and rebuilt rather than cut off wherever the mechanism allows, and the figure holds either way.
The padlock on my trailer box turns but will not open. Can it be saved?+
Rarely, and it is honest to say so up front. A padlock that has stood in the sun on a driveway for years seizes from the inside while the key keeps turning freely. It comes off and a shrouded body goes on in its place, with the make named on the call so nothing unfamiliar turns up on your own gate.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
Say which of the three doors stopped you, hear the figure, and get inside
Livermore, Pleasanton, Dublin, San Ramon, Danville and Sunol, 24/7, holidays included. The garage and its service door, the slab between the garage and the kitchen, the front door you never open, a shop unit, a car or a safe: one figure comes back with the $89 visit and the hour counted inside it. And you do not get left standing in an open doorway, because the visit ends with a key or a code that works.