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Atherton: hedges to the road, a gate across the driveway, and a code for everyone who comes to the house
The flat town of deep lots on the far side of the freeway: tall hedges and fences along the road, gates across most driveways, houses set well back and rarely visible from the street, no sidewalks and very little through traffic. Twenty-seven minutes, the longest run on this site.
~27 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
The credential story reaches these streets too, only here it is a gate code rather than a lobby fob. A house on one of these lots has a list of people with a reason to arrive: a gardener on a weekly round, a cleaner, a pool service, deliveries, a contractor for the length of a project. Each of them was given a way in, and the useful difference is that a code can be taken back and a cut key cannot. A key handed over in March is still a working key in November wherever it happens to be lying, while a code stops the minute somebody deletes it. That is the honest argument for a keypad at the gate or the side door, at $205–$505 to fit, with one condition: keep a mechanical way in that works, because a gate at the end of a long driveway is the last place you want to discover flat cells. Beyond that it is a large property like any other. Repinning is $32–$50 per cylinder across a count that usually runs to the house, a pool house, a garage and two gates, lock replacement is $133–$345 where outdoor cylinders have weathered, a house lockout is $138–$252, and a safe left by a previous owner is opened at $212–$559. Twenty-seven minutes is the longest run on this site, you hear it on the phone rather than discovering it on the driveway, and nothing about the published list changes for the distance.
Say how the driveway gate is normally opened, whether it is working at the moment, and whether there is a walk-in leaf beside it that takes a key. Have whoever can let a vehicle through reachable while you are on the phone. The house is not visible from the road on most of these lots, so a light at the driveway mouth after dark saves real minutes.
Atherton sits at the edge of the map the van covers, so arrival runs about 27 minutes. Every service and price on this site applies there, with nothing added for the distance.
Nearby
Over the hill, the same van
FAQ
Asked about Atherton
Several people have keys to the side gate and we have lost track of who.+
Then the cheapest fix is repinning rather than replacing. At $32–$50 per cylinder, with everything after the first at the low end, every key cut before that morning stops working while the hardware stays on the gate. If you would rather the next arrangement ends by itself, a keypad on that gate is $205–$505 and each person gets a code of their own that is deleted the day the work finishes. Keep the keyway underneath either way.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
Say what the door reads, and the rest of the call is short
Mountain View and the mid-Peninsula, at any hour. A fob, a card, a code or a plain key, and how many doors stand between the sidewalk and you — that decides the work, and the work decides the number. The number comes back on the same call with the $89 call-out and the clock already inside it, and it is the number on the receipt. The labor carries 90 days, in writing.