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Daly City: rows of houses over the county line, the same garage-under-the-house plan, and thicker fog than the Sunset
The rows above the county line — Westlake, the streets off Junipero Serra, the blocks around the BART station — built on the same plan as the Sunset, with the garage under the living floor and fog that sits heavier than it does in the city. Twenty-seven minutes from Divisadero.
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Cross the county line and the building stock barely changes: the same rowhouse plan, the same garage under the living floor, the same internal stairs up to the kitchen. What does change is the weather, and not in your favour. The fog here sits heavier and stays longer than it does in the Sunset, which puts hardware on the hard end of every range on this site. Three to six years on a plain brass street-facing cylinder is the optimistic version out here; four is a normal answer.
That makes the recommendation stronger rather than different. On a garage cylinder or a street-facing front door, plain brass is a purchase you will repeat, and marine-grade stainless is the cheaper of the two once you count the second one. Replacement is $125 to $319, a rekey $28 to $46 per cylinder, and bringing the garage and the door at the top of the stairs onto one key is the job we do most on these streets.
Lockouts follow the same pattern as the Sunset and for the same reason. The household uses the garage, the front door key lives somewhere theoretical, and a snapped blade or a seized cylinder in the garage locks out everybody at once. A lockout is $135 to $249 with the broken half extracted and a new cylinder fitted on the same visit if that is what it needs. Cars are opened where they stand at $115 to $219.
Twenty-seven minutes is the real figure and it is said on the call before you commit to waiting for it, because being over the county line is a genuine difference and pretending otherwise helps nobody. Prices do not change with the address: the same list, the same $89 visit inside every figure, $55 after 8pm and $95 after midnight.
Give the street and the nearest cross street, and say whether it is the garage, the door at the top of the garage stairs, or the front. If the key has been stiff for more than a couple of winters, say so: out here that usually means replacement rather than cleaning.
FAQ
Asked about Daly City
Is it really foggier here than in the Sunset?+
In practice, yes. The fog sits heavier and burns off later, and hardware shows it: a cylinder that would run six years in the Sunset often gives up around four here. It does not change what anything costs, it changes what we expect to find when the lock comes off.
Do you charge more over the county line?+
No. Same list, same $89 visit inside every figure, same evening and overnight amounts. The address changes the wait, not the price, and the wait is quoted before you agree to anything.
One key for the garage and the door upstairs — can you do that here?+
Yes, and it is the most common piece of work on these streets. The locks stay on the doors and take new pins, so every key already out there stops working. $28 to $46 per cylinder with the second at the low end because the van is already outside.
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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.