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Birdland: streets named for birds, carports instead of garages, and a side gate before the back door
The mid-sixties grid east of Fair Oaks where every street carries a bird name. Low rooflines, carports on many of the lots, narrow side yards behind keyed gates, and cars parked at the curb rather than shut away. Twenty-three minutes from Moffett Park.
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23 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
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The bird names make an address easy to say and easy to miss, because several of these streets bend back on themselves and the numbers restart after the curve. Give the bird and the nearest corner and the van arrives on the first pass instead of the third. The hardware underneath is one mid-sixties package, and unlike the older tracts to the west that package included the deadbolt from the beginning, sitting in line with the knob where the carpenter meant it to be. Rekeying is therefore quick and predictable at $28 to $45 per cylinder, with front, carport door, back door and side gate treated as one job at one figure.
A carport changes what a lockout looks like, since there is no roll-up to lift and no closed garage to try. The way in is generally the side gate with its keyed latch and then the door from the yard into the kitchen, so it helps to say on the call whether that gate takes a key and whether the bins are stacked against it. A house lockout is $125 to $219 and the lock is still doing its job when the technician leaves. On the rare door that defeats every tool, you hear what is happening and you decide; a drill is never a route to a bigger number. Where a key has worn a cylinder to the point that a spare borrowed from a neighbor will wobble it open, a lock replacement is $125 to $315 per door.
Because cars live at the curb here rather than under a roof, the automotive calls cluster on these streets. A fob that has spent ten years in the weather eventually stops talking to a car parked twenty feet from the porch, and that is usually a cell rather than a fault. A replacement fob programmed at the vehicle is $89 to $195, and the low end of that is the visit itself. Keys shut in the car during a school pickup are $105 to $199. A car with no key left anywhere is cut and coded at the curb for $159 to $399, with no flatbed involved. A starter switch that turns halfway and gives up is $185 to $439. Calls are answered 24/7, $50 in the figure from 8pm and $85 from midnight.
Give the bird name and the nearest corner, because the numbering restarts where these streets bend. For a house, say whether the route in is past a side gate and whether that gate is keyed. For a car, the year, make, model and color are what decide how long the job takes.
FAQ
Asked from Birdland
The numbering restarts after the bend. How do I stop the van missing it?+
Give the bird name and the nearest corner rather than the number alone. Several of these streets curve back on themselves and the house numbers begin again on the far side, which is the one thing that turns a twenty-three minute arrival into thirty. A porch light after dark does most of the rest.
There is no garage here, just a carport. Where does a lockout start?+
At the side gate, almost always. With no roll-up to lift, the route in is the keyed latch on the gate and then the door from the yard into the kitchen. Say whether that gate takes a key and whether the bins are stacked against it, because both change where the technician begins and neither changes the figure.
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Say which opening stopped you, hear the figure, and get through it
Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Cupertino, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Alviso, 24/7, holidays included. A gate, a lobby reader, a fob, a unit door, a shop front, a car or a safe: one figure comes back with the $89 visit and the hour already inside it. Your own door and your own fob are yours to arrange; a shared opening takes a word from the manager or the HOA, and that gets sorted while you are still on the phone.