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Los Altos: wide lots, long driveways, and a gate that decides where the job actually starts
South-west across Foothill Expressway, on older streets with lots deep enough that the house sits well back from the curb. Mature oaks, gravel driveways, side gates onto long yards, detached garages and workshops behind them. Twenty-seven minutes from Moffett Park.
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27 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
The first lock in the way here often has nothing to do with the house. Driveways run a hundred feet, hedges close over them, and what ends the walk is a side gate on a keyed latch or a driveway gate on an operator with no release on the street side. A house lockout is $125 to $219 and the job starts at whatever is genuinely in the way, so it saves time to say on the call whether a gate stands between the road and the door and whether it opens from outside. Gate hardware is priced rather than deferred: $149 to $429 covers a post keypad that has stopped taking codes, an operator board that no longer hears its remotes, and a call box wired to a number that changed years ago.
What is on the doors varies house by house. Older places near the village have pre-war mortise cases sunk into the edge of the door and strikes let into old-growth jambs. The streets built after the war carry bored cylinders, and anything remodeled in the last twenty years has a thick door and a handle set. A cylinder heavy with decades of graphite is cleaned and repinned at $28 to $45 and tends to outlast whatever would have replaced it, and where a case has cracked at the bolt a lock replacement is $125 to $315 per door, fitted so the front of the house looks the same from the street. A rekey on a property this size is a long list, taking in the house front and back, the detached garage, a workshop, a pool gate and a gate on either flank, and it goes out as a single figure with the visit counted once.
Two things happen here more than in the city. Properties that pass down through a family hold safes, sometimes set into a garage slab and sometimes behind a closet panel, and opening one is $195 to $519. And outdoor hardware quietly deteriorates, because gates, workshops and pool enclosures live in weather year round and nobody notices a latch growing stiff until the morning it refuses altogether. Households that travel and have somebody coming in to feed animals put a smart lock at $189 to $469 on the door beside the parking pad, so a code can begin and end on set dates. House numbers on these lanes are sparse and the driveways are dark, so a porch light on does more for the arrival than any description does. Calls are answered 24/7, with $50 in the figure after 8pm and $85 after midnight.
Tell us where the walk ends: at the curb, at the top of a long driveway, or at a gate, and if it is a gate, whether it is a latch with a key or an operator with a remote. Deep lots often have a workshop or a pool house that needs keys too. List them on the call and they go into the same figure.
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FAQ
Asked from Los Altos
The house is a long way off the road. Where should the technician park?+
At the top of the driveway where there is room to turn, or on the verge if there is not. What matters more is telling us where the walk ends: at the curb, at the garage, or at a gate. On lots this deep, a hundred feet of gravel and a closed side gate is the difference between a ten-minute job and a half-hour one.
Our driveway gate has no release on the street side.+
Then it is the first lock in the way and it gets treated as one. Post keypads, operator boards and the remotes that talk to them are $149 to $429, and a house lockout at $125 to $219 begins at whichever obstacle is genuinely first. Say on the call whether the gate opens from outside at all, because that decides what rides out on the van.
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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.