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Barron Park locksmith calls on the streets below Foothill Expressway, where there are no sidewalks and every lot ends in a side gate
The western streets between El Camino Real and Foothill Expressway, around Bol Park and its donkeys: large lots, houses from the 1940s onward set back from a road with no curb, side gates onto long drives, studios and detached garages behind the house, creek-side properties along Matadero, and a longer drive from Midtown.
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25 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Twenty-five minutes is the honest number, across town on Oregon Expressway and down El Camino, and the figure does not move with the miles. The trouble door in Barron Park is the side gate, a wood gate on a drop latch or a keyed latch at the road end of the drive, standing between the street and a front door sixty feet back. A lockout is $129 to $219 and begins at the gate. A keyed latch on that gate, pinned to the house key, ends the repeat visits for the cost of one more cylinder at $27 to $45.
The lots hold more doors than the road shows: the house, a studio at the back, a detached garage, a pool gate, sometimes a second cottage under the oaks. A rekey counts all of them at $27 to $45 per cylinder, and the count runs to seven or eight. Properties along the creek have had wet winters, and low hardware that went stiff is cleaned and rekeyed before replacement is mentioned. A door with a knob and nothing above it gets a deadbolt at $125 to $329. A smart lock at $189 to $479 goes on whichever door the dog walker uses, with a code that is retired when the arrangement ends.
There are no sidewalks, and the house numbers sit on posts, fences and the occasional painted rock, so the van stops on the shoulder and the case walks in. Say on the call what the number is painted on. Streetlights are few, and a porch light is worth more here than anywhere else in the city. Evening calls carry $55 between 8pm and midnight and $90 overnight, inside the figure said on the call, and calls are answered 24/7.
Say whether the trouble is the gate, the front door or a building at the back of the lot, and what the house number is painted on. Leave a light on at the drive; the streets have no curb and few lamps.
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The next district over, the same van and the same figures
FAQ
Asked about Barron Park
Twenty-five minutes is the longest run inside the city. Why?+
There is no straight road. The van goes across town on Oregon Expressway and down El Camino Real, then onto streets with no curb where the last stretch is slow for good reason. Twenty-five minutes is said on the call rather than discovered on the way, and nothing is added for the miles.
There are no sidewalks and our number is on a fence post. How will the van find us?+
Tell us what the number is painted on, a post, a fence, a rock or a mailbox, and give the nearest cross street. Leave the porch light or a light at the drive on: there are few street lamps out here, and a number that can be read saves more time than any shortcut.
The gate at the road is what keeps locking us out. Can it go on the house key?+
It can. A keyed latch on that gate, pinned to the same key as the front door, is one more cylinder at $27 to $45 and it ends the repeat visits. On a wood gate that has dropped on its hinges the post and the latch are squared first, because a lock will not fix a sagging gate.
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Calls answered 24/7 across Palo Alto, Stanford and the towns beside them. The $89 service call, the labor and the parts are inside the figure said on the call, the lock is opened without drilling wherever it allows, and the receipt repeats the figure.