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San Rafael district

Garage door repair in Peacock Gap, San Rafael

Nearly 94% of Peacock Gap's housing is detached, and in its census tract essentially every occupied home is owner-occupied, which makes it the strongest homeowner pocket in San Rafael. The neighborhood took shape when late-1950s developers turned marshland by the bay into a golf course community. William F. Bell designed the course in 1959, it opened in 1960, and the ranch and split-level homes filled in around it through the sixties and seventies.

Peacock Gap in numbers

93.8% of homes in the Peacock Gap tract are detached single-family houses
1960 the year the golf course opened, with the neighborhood building out around it
41 homes front the lagoon
15 clear-road minutes from our base, the longest run inside San Rafael

Housing and vehicle figures are American Community Survey 2024 five-year estimates. The Census counts vehicles, not garages.

What the housing here is like

Roomy sixties and seventies ranch and split-level homes on generous lots, many with double doors, plus the lagoon-front houses and the Loch Lomond streets above the marina to the west. Wide doors on wide houses. When a two-car door of this vintage loses a spring, the other one can't carry the weight, and forcing the opener finishes the job. Stop at the first bang and call us.

Getting to Peacock Gap

Peacock Gap sits about four miles from downtown as the crow flies. Point San Pedro Road around the shoreline is the only way in, though, so it's nearly six road miles and about fifteen minutes clear. We book Peacock Gap as a dedicated visit rather than a squeezed-in stop, which is how the window we give you stays a window we can hold.

Worth knowing locally

Point San Pedro Road itself is the neighborhood's origin. The county took it over in 1894 and paved it in 1934, and everything east of the hill hangs off it. The golf club on Biscayne Drive has anchored the neighborhood since 1960.

What we expect to find

Bay-side weather on big doors. The eastern shoreline takes the wet season head-on, and a wide door has more steel to rust and more weight for a corroded cable to hold. Any fraying on a double-door cable needs looking at this week.

Garage door repair in Peacock Gap, San Rafael

Call (510) 509-9998 and tell us the cross streets. Then we'll give you an arrival window we can hold, and the price range, before anyone drives anywhere.

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Questions about Peacock Gap

Do you charge more to come out to Peacock Gap?

Same price as everywhere else we work. Scheduling is the only difference, and we book Peacock Gap as its own slot because Point San Pedro Road is the one way around.

Open 7 days, 7am to 7pm (510) 509-9998