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Alviso: a low old village at the edge of the ponds, where a property can have more gates than doors
The oldest settlement on this map and the smallest: a handful of streets of low houses at the edge of the salt ponds, deep yards with sheds and outbuildings, a few industrial parcels, and long straight approach roads with almost nothing on them. Twenty-nine minutes.
4.9 / 5· 207 reviews from Milpitas and the north end of the valley
~29 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
The houses down here are older than anything in Milpitas and they carry the hardware to prove it, which makes the count the first thing worth establishing. A front entry, a back door onto the yard, a shed, sometimes a second outbuilding, a gate at the side and a gate at the end of the lot, and all of it keyed by different owners across a long stretch of years. Repinning is $30–$47 per cylinder with everything after the first at the low end, which is the sensible way to price a property where the openings outnumber the rooms people use. Outdoor cylinders on the gates and sheds often need replacing rather than pinning at $126–$338, a house lockout is $129–$246 with the $89 call-out inside the figure, and a safe left behind by an earlier owner opens at $204–$548. Twenty-nine minutes is the real run, most of it the approach rather than the traffic, and it is quoted before you agree to wait. After dark, say what marks the driveway, because street numbers down here are hard to read from a moving van.
Count the gates and outbuildings before calling, since that count sets the figure for a repin more than the house does. Say what marks the driveway or the gate from the road, and whether there is a light on it after dark. If the trouble is a safe, say dial or keypad and whether it stands in a wall or a slab.
Alviso sits at the edge of the map the van covers, so arrival runs about 29 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 Alviso
Do you come out this far in the middle of the night?+
Yes, at any hour, and the number that matters is said first: twenty-nine minutes to these streets, with $86 added for an arrival between midnight and seven in the morning and the $89 call-out already inside the figure. A house lockout works out at $129–$246 all in, quoted as one total before the van sets off. If you are waiting outdoors at that hour, wait somewhere lit and tell us where you will be standing, because addresses down here are hard to pick out after dark.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
Name the door, and say who else has a key for it
Milpitas, at any hour, every day of the year. A front door in the tracts, a gate at a complex, a garage service door, a storefront in Midtown or a car in the mall lot — that decides the work, and the work decides the figure. The figure comes back on the same call with the $89 call-out and the clock already inside it, and it is the figure on the receipt. Ninety days on the labor, in writing. The van is already on this side of the interchange.