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Bay Farm Island: the part of the city that is not on the island, reached over a bridge of its own
The flat ground across the channel, joined to the rest of the city by its own bridge: planned streets from the seventies through the nineties along the lagoons, condominium courtyards on shared paths, the golf course and the ferry landing. Twenty-seven minutes, the longest run on this map.
~27 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Two things about this address are worth saying before anything else. It is fully part of the city and it is worked at the same published figures as the streets on the main island, and it is reached by a different route, over its own bridge rather than through any of the crossings that lead off the island toward Oakland. That is the whole of why twenty-seven minutes appears on this page instead of eighteen. The number is measured from where the van is standing at that moment and over the crossing it will really use. Nothing is added to any figure for the drive, and the $89 service call sits inside the price here exactly as it does twelve minutes away on Park Street.
The housing is the newest in the city and the job list follows from that. Builder hardware rather than heirloom: a bored deadbolt above a knob, a slider onto a patio or a lagoon deck, and a door in from the garage that the household uses as its real front door. That garage door is the one that closes behind somebody who went down for a phone charger, which makes it the commonest lockout out here at $132 to $242. Bores are the modern size, so a keypad lock generally goes on without any surgery to the door, at the low end of $192 to $479. A rekey after a sale is $30 to $47 per cylinder and the tally is short and predictable: front, garage side door, the door in from the garage, the slider and a path gate.
The condominium courtyards run on a different division of ownership and it is worth knowing which side of it you are on before you call. The door into your own home is yours. The courtyard gate, the mail alcove, the pool gate and the door into a shared garage belong to the association, and a change to any of them is ordered by the board or the manager rather than by a resident. On a lockout the gate is opened as part of reaching your door rather than counted as an extra opening. Where a manager needs the work described in a line they can file, that line goes out with the receipt at no charge.
The rest is cars and hours. Vehicles stand all day at the ferry landing, in the business park lots and at the golf course, so a car lockout at $108 to $202 and a fob paired at the vehicle at $92 to $199 are both steady work, along with a key cut and coded beside the car at $154 to $415 when nothing else exists. The ferry runs early and lands late, which puts a real share of these calls outside office hours: $50 is inside the figure between eight in the evening and midnight and $88 between midnight and seven. Twenty-seven minutes is quoted plainly rather than shaded down to win the job.
Say whether it is a house on a lagoon street, a unit in a condominium courtyard, or a car at the ferry landing or a park lot. For a courtyard, give the building letter and say whether the gate or your own door is the problem. For a house, say whether the roll-up is down and whether the remote is in a car that has already left.
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Nearby
Over the hill, the same van
FAQ
Asked about Bay Farm Island
Why is Bay Farm twenty-seven minutes when the rest of the city averages eighteen?+
Because it is reached by its own bridge across the channel rather than by the crossings that serve the main island, and it sits past the whole length of the city from where the van works. The distance changes the wait and nothing else. The list of prices is the same one printed everywhere on this site, and the figure is agreed before anyone sets off.
The gate to our courtyard has stopped working and my own door is fine. Who calls that in?+
The association or whoever manages the property, since the gate belongs to them rather than to any one household. If you are locked out and the gate is simply in the way, that is dealt with as part of reaching your door on a single visit at $132 to $242. Tell us which of those two situations you are in and the call goes to whoever can approve it.
The door from the garage is the one we actually use. Does that change the job?+
Only in what gets tried first. On these streets that door is the one that latches behind somebody, and it opens like any other door on a single visit. Say whether the roll-up is down, whether the remote left in a car this morning, and whether there is a side door into the garage, so the least intrusive route in is the one taken.
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Say whether it is the street door or your own, and the rest of the call is short
Alameda and Bay Farm, at any hour. Which leaf it is decides who approves the work, the door itself decides the work, and the work decides the number, which is settled on the phone with the $89 visit and any late hour already inside it. It reads the same on the receipt. Ninety days on the labor, in writing.