Martinez neighborhood · 24/7
Virginia Hills: the southern edge of the map, twenty-seven minutes, and a road that turns back on itself
The far southern corner of the coverage: streets that leave the valley road and loop around the slope, houses stepping up and down from the curb, driveways that pitch away from the road, and the longest run to any Martinez address. Twenty-seven minutes from the van.
~27 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Twenty-seven is what it is, and it is said before you decide to wait rather than discovered while you are standing outside. The route is the length of it: the valley road first and then a loop that gets no faster for being driven often. Nothing about the money moves with the distance. There is no mileage line on a receipt from out here, the published list is the same one printed everywhere else on this site, and the $89 service call sits inside every figure exactly as it does ten minutes away downtown. If the drive is going to run longer than twenty-seven that evening, you hear that when the figure is said.
Because the wait is real, two minutes on the phone are worth more here than anywhere else. Say which road you turned off and what is visible from it, a mailbox, a gatepost or the last number that can actually be read, since the loop repeats and a wrong turn on it costs five minutes rather than one. Say whether the driveway takes a van or whether the shoulder is the only option. And before you settle in to wait, walk the property: a back door or a side door left unlocked ends the call, and a job stood down before the van sets off costs nothing at all.
The work itself is what a hillside address produces. A house lockout is $125 to $229 and begins wherever the walk stops, which up here is sometimes a gate or a flight of steps rather than the front door. Rekeying after a purchase is $27 to $44 per cylinder across a count that includes the garage and any gate, quoted as one figure with the visit inside it. Replacement hardware is $119 to $315, and a keypad lock with codes for a household is $185 to $459, fitted with the metal override key cut at the van the same day. Where a safe has come with the house and the combination left with the previous owner, opening it is $189 to $509 by daytime appointment.
Cars are worth a separate line out here, because a dealer appointment plus a tow is a bad afternoon for an address this far out. A key cut and coded in your own driveway is $149 to $399, a fob paired at the vehicle is $95 to $189, an ignition that turns partway and stalls is $175 to $435, and none of it needs the car to go anywhere. A spare done in the same session costs far less than a second visit later, which is the sensible thing to ask for while somebody has already made the drive. Evening carries $45 and overnight $85, inside the figure, with ninety days on the labor in writing.
Give the road you turned off as well as the number, and something visible from it, since the loop repeats and the numbering does not help. Say whether the door is at road level or up steps, and whether the van should pull into the driveway or stay on the shoulder. If a light can be left on at the road after dark, it saves more time than any description.
Nearby
Over the hill, the same van
FAQ
Asked about Virginia Hills
Twenty-seven minutes is the longest run to a Martinez address. Could it be sooner?+
Sometimes, depending on where the van is standing when you ring. What will not happen is a shorter number invented to win the job and then missed. You get the honest figure first and decide with it in front of you, and the window that reaches you by text is drawn from where the van actually is rather than from the average on this page.
Is anything added to the price for coming this far out?+
No. The same published list applies at the far end of the loop as on Main Street, and the $89 service call is counted once inside the figure rather than added to it. The address changes how long you wait, not what you pay. What can move a figure is the door in front of the technician and the hour on the clock, and both are settled on the call.
The last key to the car is gone. Does it have to be towed?+
For most makes parked on these streets, no. The key is cut and the transponder coded beside the car where it stands at $149 to $399, and the vehicle is started twice on the new key and locked and unlocked with it before anything is packed away. The lost key is dropped out of the vehicle memory whenever you ask for that, so it opens nothing afterward.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
Say whether the key meets a keyhole or a cylinder, and the rest of the call is quick
Martinez and the towns around the strait, around the clock. What sits in the edge of the leaf 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, a rebuilt bronze case covered the same as a new lock.