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Bayview, the Excelsior and the Portola: tunnel-entrance houses, driveway gates, and the shops on Third and Mission
The south of the city: houses with tunnel entrances and garages at street level, driveway gates on the wider lots, small industrial units and yards toward the water, and the shop roll-ups along Third Street and Mission. Twenty-four minutes from Divisadero, the longest run inside the city.
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The tunnel-entrance house is this district's signature: a garage at the pavement, a passage beside or through it, and the front door set back at the end. It puts three or four locks on the way in, and it means the door most used is the one at the back of the tunnel rather than the one facing the street. A lockout is $135 to $249 whichever door it turns out to be. Bringing the garage, the tunnel gate and the house door onto one key is $28 to $46 per cylinder, and it is the most useful hour anyone spends on one of these houses.
Driveway gates on the wider lots are the other feature, and they are outdoor hardware, which changes the arithmetic. A gate lock or a padlock lives in the weather all year, and even on this side of the city, out of the worst of the ocean air, that means a shorter life than anything indoors. Replacement is $125 to $319 and the finish matters more than on an interior door. This is the sun side by the standards of the fog line, so an interior cylinder here will do a decade without complaining.
Third Street and the Mission Street blocks in the Excelsior carry the commercial work: roll-up shop gates, glass storefront doors, and small suites above. Storefront and grille locks are $169 to $479, business lockouts $155 to $279, exit devices $299 to $769. Toward the water there are yards and small industrial units, where the calls are gates, man-doors beside a roll-up, and master key systems for a landlord with a row of tenants, which are walked and counted on site before a figure is given.
Twenty-four minutes is the longest run inside the city and it gets stated on the call rather than discovered afterwards. Nights are ordinary business here as everywhere: $55 after 8pm, $95 after midnight, both folded into the figure before you agree to anything. Cars are opened where they stand at $115 to $219, which on these streets usually means a driveway or a kerb rather than a lot.
Say which door in the sequence stopped you: the garage at the pavement, a gate across the driveway, the door at the back of the tunnel, or the house itself. For a shop, give the block of Third or Mission and whether it is the grille, the glass door or the man-door beside a roll-up.
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What is a tunnel entrance and why does it matter?+
It is the layout on most houses down here: garage at the pavement, a passage beside or through it, and the front door set back at the end. It matters because it puts three or four locks between the street and your kitchen, and the one you use daily is not the one facing the street. Which of them stopped you decides what the technician brings.
Does salt reach this far south?+
Much less than the ocean side. The hills take most of the marine air out before it gets here, so interior and street-facing cylinders do a decade without complaint. What is exposed is the outdoor hardware: a driveway gate lock or a padlock lives in the weather all year and wears far faster than anything on the house.
Twenty-four minutes is a while. Is that firm?+
It is the honest average from Divisadero and the longest run inside the city limits. You hear it on the call before you decide to wait for it, and the figure quoted does not change if the drive runs long. If you are in a hurry it is worth saying so, because the order of the day can sometimes be moved.
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Say what the key is doing, hear the figure, get back inside
San Francisco plus Daly City, Colma, Brisbane, South San Francisco and Pacifica, 24 hours, holidays included. Stiff, halfway, snapped, or a healthy lock on the wrong side of a closed door: one number comes back with the $89 visit and the hour of the night already inside it, and it is the number on the receipt.