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Springtown: sixties houses across the arroyo, garages facing the street, and one key that should open three doors
North-east across Arroyo Las Positas, on the streets laid out around the golf course. Single-story houses from the sixties, wide roads, deep driveways, and garages set at the front of the lot where they get the full afternoon sun. Twenty minutes.
4.9 / 5· 194 reviews from Livermore and the Tri-Valley
~20 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Springtown was built as one order, which makes the hardware here predictable in a way it is nowhere else in town. Knob on the front, a deadbolt above it only if an owner added one later, a service door on the side of the garage, and a door from the garage into a utility room or straight into the kitchen. The household comes in through the garage and the front door handles the mail. Nobody set out to live that way; it is just what happens when the driveway is the shortest route to the refrigerator.
That is why the rekey is the job we do most on these blocks. At $25 to $42 per cylinder it puts one key on the front door, the garage service door and the back slider lock, and the second cylinder costs less than the first because the $89 visit is counted once across the list instead of once per door. The moment for it is obvious in hindsight: after buying the house, after the bathroom contractor gave the key back but not the copy, after a tenant moved out. Where a cylinder is too worn to take new pins, a lock replacement is $118 to $299 per door and the grade is named before it goes on.
The keypad on the garage jamb is the other Springtown fixture. Four people in the house know the code, plus a painter from three summers ago and whoever was walking the dog in 2021. Nobody has changed it because nobody remembers how. A code you choose yourself, set while the technician is standing there, is part of the visit; where the household wants dated codes per person instead, a smart lock is $179 to $449 on the door from the garage, with the original front set left as it is.
Heat is the local mechanic. Afternoons run over a hundred out here through the summer, a timber door swells, and a bolt that dropped cleanly in March starts riding the lip of its keeper by July. That is a keeper to move a quarter inch, not a lock that has died, and it gets treated as such. The same heat flattens keypad batteries without warning, which is how a family ends up on their own driveway at nine at night. A house lockout is $129 to $225, opened without damage first, with a drill only once you agree to it and never for a bigger number. Cars sit in the open on these wide driveways and get opened at $109 to $205.
Say whether it is the garage service door, the door from the garage into the house, the front or the slider, and whether the roll-up is up or down right now. If the keypad on the jamb is the trouble, say whether the buttons light at all, since a flat battery and a dead board are two different visits.
FAQ
Asked about Springtown
Twenty minutes across the arroyo — why longer than Sunset East?+
Springtown sits north-east across Arroyo Las Positas and there are only so many ways over it, so the run is a couple of minutes longer than the tract on the other side. The wide streets and deep driveways give some of that back at the door. Twenty is what you are told, and the drive adds nothing to the price.
The bolt on my front door has started catching since summer. Is the lock finished?+
Usually not. Afternoons here run over a hundred, a timber door swells, and a bolt that dropped cleanly in March starts riding the lip of its keeper by July. That is a keeper to move a quarter of an inch, not a lock to replace, and it is treated as such before anyone talks about hardware.
Four people know our garage code and so does a painter from 2022. What now?+
Setting a code you choose is part of the visit and costs nothing extra while the technician is standing there. If you would rather each person had their own, with an end date on the ones that need one, a keypad lock on the garage-to-house door is $179 to $449 and the front set stays as it is.
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.