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South San Francisco: warehouses and yards off Grand Avenue, older houses on the hill, and doors that work for a living
The industrial city: warehouse units and yards off Grand Avenue and along the flats, shops on the main street, and older houses climbing the hill behind them. Thirty-one minutes from Divisadero.
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$89
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24/7
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Most of the work here is commercial and most of it is doors that get used hard. A man-door beside a roll-up cycled two hundred times a shift wears its latch round in a couple of years regardless of weather, and that is the common failure rather than corrosion. Exit devices are $299 to $769 per door, storefront and unit locks $169 to $479, access control $165 to $439, and a business lockout $155 to $279. Master key systems for a landlord holding a row of units get walked and counted on site before a figure is given, because a building nobody has looked at cannot be priced honestly.
The yards add outdoor hardware to the list: gate locks, padlocks and chains that live in the weather year round. Being on the bay side rather than the ocean side helps, but not much when a lock is outdoors through every winter. A padlock that has started to feel gritty is worth replacing on a quiet afternoon instead of at six in the morning with a truck waiting.
The houses on the hill are ordinary residential work, older stock with hardware to match. A lockout is $135 to $249, a rekey $28 to $46 per cylinder, replacement $125 to $319. Away from the ocean and a little above the flats, cylinders here do reasonable service — call it eight to twelve years — so a lock that has failed early usually has a reason worth finding rather than simply being old.
Thirty-one minutes is the second longest run on this site and it is quoted before you decide to wait. Prices are identical to the city: the $89 visit inside every figure, $55 after 8pm, $95 after midnight, all counted in before you agree.
For a unit or a yard, give the street off Grand Avenue and say whether it is the man-door, the gate, a padlock or a storefront. For a house, the cross street on the hill. If a truck or a delivery is waiting, say so on the call, because that can change the order of the day.
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FAQ
Asked about South San Francisco
Our man-door latch has worn out again. Is that normal?+
On a door cycled a couple of hundred times a shift, yes. Traffic wears hardware faster than weather does in this part of the peninsula, and a latch worn round is the usual result. Depending on the door it is either a rebuild on the visit or a replacement at $169 to $479, and you will hear which before anything is fitted.
Can you quote a master key system over the phone?+
No, and anybody who does is guessing. It gets walked and counted on site first: every door, every tenant, every level of key. Then it comes back as one figure. That walk-through does not commit you to anything.
Thirty-one minutes — can you come sooner in an emergency?+
Sometimes, depending on where the van is when you call. What will not happen is a shorter number quoted to win the job and missed on the day. You get the honest figure up front, and if the run is genuinely going to be long you can decide with that in front of you.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
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.