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San Martin: acre lots, barns and equipment sheds, and the airfield at the end of the road
The unincorporated country between Gilroy and the north: houses on acre lots and larger, barns, workshops and equipment sheds, the small airfield, and long driveways off the frontage roads. Fourteen minutes from the van.
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Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Out here the house is a small part of the job. A property carries a gate at the road, a barn or a shop, a couple of equipment sheds, sometimes a pump house, and every one of those runs on a padlock or an outdoor cylinder. Those are the locks that fail, and they fail from weather and dust rather than from use. Replacement is $112 to $279 and the finish is worth paying for once instead of twice.
Bringing the property onto one key is the standard job and it saves more here than in town, because the alternative is a ring of eight keys used in the dark at five in the morning. Rekeying is $25 to $41 per cylinder with everything after the first at the low end, and where a padlock cannot be rekeyed usefully it gets replaced with one keyed to match the rest.
The hours run early, the same as south Gilroy. Livestock, equipment and crews do not wait for daylight, so the early tier at $40 is the ordinary rate out here rather than an exception. A house lockout is $119 to $209 and a business or barn lockout $135 to $239, both with the hour counted in before you agree.
Fourteen minutes is the honest figure and it is quoted before you decide to wait. The last part of the run is usually a long driveway, so give a gate number or a landmark rather than only a road name, and say if a gate has to be opened before the van can reach the house.
Give the road and a gate number or landmark, and say which lock stopped you: the gate at the road, the house, the barn, a shed or a pump house. If the van needs a gate opened to reach the house, say so on the call.
FAQ
Asked about San Martin
Can everything on the property go onto one key?+
Usually, including most padlocks, which can be keyed to match the doors. It is $25 to $41 per cylinder with everything after the first at the low end. On a property with seven or eight locks it is an hour of work that ends the ring of keys and the guessing in the dark.
Do you charge more for coming out of town?+
No. Same list, same $89 visit inside every figure, same tiers by the hour. The address changes the wait, not the price, and the wait is quoted before you agree to anything.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
Say the hour and what stopped you, hear the figure, get to work on time
Gilroy plus San Martin, Hollister, Aromas, San Juan Bautista and Watsonville, around the clock, every day. Four to seven in the morning costs what an evening costs and less than a night, and whatever hour it is, the number comes back on the call with the $89 visit already inside it — and it is the number on the receipt.