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Park Street District: the glass front, the narrow door next to it, and the stair that four addresses share
The island's main shopping street and the blocks either side of it: display windows at the sidewalk, offices and apartments on the floors above them, service doors onto the back lanes, and a drawbridge at the north end of the run. Twelve minutes, the shortest arrival on this map.
~12 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Nearly every building on this street has two entrances at street level and they are not the same job. One is the wide glass front the customers use. The other is the plain door beside it, half the width, opening onto a stair with offices and apartments at the top. When somebody calls from Park Street the first question is which of those two stopped them, because the answer decides what comes off the van and who has to say yes to the work. Being let into a suite you rent or a shop you run is a business lockout at $141 to $258, with the $89 visit already counted inside that figure rather than added at the end.
The wide glass door has its own recurring fault and it is rarely the lock. An aluminum frame carrying that much glass moves through the day, the closer slowly stops pulling the leaf the last half inch, and the deadlatch starts riding over the keeper instead of dropping into it. The door looks shut and holds nothing. Storefront door locks are $162 to $472 per opening, and the bottom of that range is a keeper moved a few millimeters and a closer set to land the door instead of throwing it at the frame. Rear doors onto the lanes are the same story with a bar on them, and panic bars and exit devices run $302 to $769 per door, with adjustment tried before anything is replaced.
The narrow door is where this street meets the question that runs through the whole island. It belongs to the building rather than to any one tenant, and behind it there can be an accountant, a studio, and two apartments, all holding a key cut to the same cylinder. Repinning is $30 to $47 per cylinder and every cylinder after the first sits at the low end because the technician is already at the top of the stair. What changes is not the price but the approval: a change to a door that several addresses pass through is ordered by the owner or the manager, and a short written message from either is all that is needed. That gets sorted on the call, not at the curb.
The rest of the district is ordinary and priced in public. Keys shut in a car in the lots behind the stores, or at a meter on a Saturday, are a car lockout at $108 to $202, and a fob paired beside the vehicle is $92 to $199. Shops open early and lock up late, so the hours matter: from eight in the evening to midnight add $50, and between midnight and seven in the morning add $88, both inside the figure agreed before anyone sets off. Twelve minutes holds most of the day. The one thing that moves it is the bridge at the end of the street standing up for a boat, and if that is happening when you call you are told then.
Give the block and say which door it is: the glass front onto the sidewalk, the narrow street door beside it, a suite at the top of the stair, or a rear door onto the lane. If the trouble is a shop door that will not secure at closing, say what time you lock up so the visit lands before it.
Most requested in Park Street District
Nearby
Over the hill, the same van
FAQ
Asked about Park Street District
Our shop door locks fine in the morning and will not catch at closing. Is the lock finished?+
Usually not. On a wide aluminum door the closer stops pulling the leaf that last half inch as the day goes on, so the latch skates over its keeper rather than dropping in. Setting the closer and moving the keeper is the low end of $162 to $472. If a quote arrives without anyone asking what time of day it fails, the question has not been listened to.
I rent an apartment over a store here. Can I have the street door downstairs rekeyed?+
Your own door, yes. The street door is used by every address on that stair, so a change to it is the owner's or the manager's to order, and one written line from either settles it. We ask on the phone rather than finding out after a technician has driven over. Getting you into your own apartment tonight is a separate matter and yours to arrange.
The bridge was up when I called. Does that come out of the twelve minutes?+
It comes out of nothing, because the figure you are given is measured from where the van is standing at that moment and through the crossing it will actually use. A raised span is normal traffic here, not a fault. If it adds five minutes you hear five minutes on the call instead of watching the window pass.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
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.