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Sun Terrace and Meadow Homes: the first tract streets, where every deadbolt was added by somebody else
The oldest of the postwar streets, flat and close-set, with small lots, garages facing the road, screen doors on the front and long-owned houses behind them. Nineteen minutes from the plaza, and most of this work happens between nine in the morning and the school run.
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19 min
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$89
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These streets came first, and the hardware tells you so. The original order for this phase was a key-in-knob set and nothing else, no deadbolt anywhere in it, which means every deadbolt now hanging on Sun Terrace or in Meadow Homes was bored later by a different pair of hands in a different decade. The knob position is identical from house to house; the deadbolt above it is not. That is the district in one line. The practical consequence is shallow strike pockets and bolts that only throw when the door is pushed, and the fix is a chisel and a longer screw into the stud rather than a new lock. Where the original knob has worn to the point that a spare wiggles it open, a lock replacement is $112 to $285, and the grade going on is said out loud before it happens.
The second thing about these blocks is length of ownership. Families here have held the same address for thirty and forty years, and the key ring shows it: nine keys of which three open nothing anyone can name, one is stamped by a hardware store that closed in the eighties, and one belongs to a garage that was rebuilt. A rekey at $25 to $40 per cylinder ends that, and the count on these small lots is usually four or five, taking in the front, the kitchen door, the garage, the yard gate and now and then a shed at the back. The whole tally is settled on the phone and the figure fixed then. Aluminum screen doors are the other constant small repair, since the keeper works loose out of thin metal and the door rattles instead of latching, which is fifteen minutes rather than a replacement.
Two more come up often. A house lockout is $115 to $195, and on lots this size the side door into the garage is generally the least intrusive route, which is worth agreeing on the phone so nobody waits on the porch. And when a long-held house changes hands, there is frequently a safe in the garage or a small box in a closet, bolted down by a previous owner and left with a combination nobody wrote anywhere. Opening one is $179 to $479. Work on these streets clusters in daylight because the households here keep early hours, but the line does not change after dark: $40 inside the figure from 8pm, $75 from midnight, and the same figure on the receipt whatever the technician finds behind the door.
Count the doors before you call, including the yard gate and any shed, so one figure covers the lot. If the deadbolt was added after the house was built, say so, since the added ones on these streets sit at every possible height and that decides what comes off the van.
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Why is Sun Terrace quicker than streets that look closer on a map?+
Because the run out of the plaza is straight and flat. Nineteen minutes covers Sun Terrace and Meadow Homes, and the grid is regular enough that a house number lands the van on the right block first time. Give the cross street anyway, since these blocks repeat their layouts and a wrong turn costs more than the drive does.
These are the oldest tract houses in the city. What usually needs doing?+
Repinning far more often than replacing. The streets here date to the mid fifties, many have held one family for decades, and the builder knob set with its later deadbolt still turns well; it needs new pins so keys handed out over thirty years stop working. What earns replacement is wear in the cylinder, a bolt that no longer reaches the frame, or a strike screwed into trim.
The garage faces the street and its side door has never been rekeyed. Can it go on the house key?+
Yes, and it is the usual request on these blocks. The garage side door, the back door and a gate latch all come onto the same key as the front at $25 to $40 a cylinder, counted on the call so one figure covers the property. On lots this size that count normally runs to four or five.
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Give the street, hear the figure, and the door gets opened the way it was built to be opened
Concord, Pleasant Hill, Pacheco, Clayton, Martinez and Walnut Creek, 24/7, holidays included. Say what the door is doing and one figure comes back with the $89 visit already inside it and the hour already counted. The lock is opened without damage wherever it can be, and the receipt shows what the call showed, whether the deed is in your name or the lease is.