Access Control in San Francisco
Keypads, readers, electric strikes and staff credentials for shops, studios and small offices, priced on the call rather than sent away for a quote. Locks and readers, not intercom or buzzer wiring. $165 to $439.
$165–$439
Typical price
18 min
Avg. arrival
24/7
Availability
Access control here means the door end of the system: keypads, card and fob readers, electric strikes and maglocks, and the credentials that go with them. It suits a shop with staff coming and going, a studio with members, a small office where keys keep walking, or a landlord who is tired of reissuing metal. Where it earns its money is not security so much as administration: a credential can be switched off in a minute and a key cannot.
The line to know is the same one that runs through this whole site. The reader, the strike, the keypad and the credentials are ours. Building intercom panels, buzzer wiring, the door release wired into them and anything to do with a lift are electrical trades. If your entry system is failing rather than your door lock, you will hear so early rather than after somebody has parked in SoMa.
Exposure matters on a street door. A reader mounted outdoors near the water takes the same salt as a cylinder, and cheap outdoor hardware is a repeat purchase here as surely as a brass lock is. Where a door faces the weather, the exterior parts get specified for it.
Work runs $165 to $439 with the $89 service call inside it. A keypad on an interior staff door sits at the low end; a reader with an electric strike on a street door, with credentials issued, sits at the top. Evening adds $55 and after midnight $95. Where you already own hardware, it can be fitted, and if it is the wrong device for the door you will be told before it goes on.
All sixteen jobs and their ranges sit on this page, nothing saved for the phone. Describe what the key is doing and the range closes to one figure on the call, with the evening or overnight hour already folded in.
- Daytime (7am–8pm)standard rates
- Evening (8pm–12am)+$55
- Overnight (12am–7am)+$95
FAQ
Access Control: quick answers
Do we lose the keys entirely?+
Not if the door allows an override, and we will keep one wherever possible. Electronics fail, power goes out, and a door with no mechanical route in is a lockout waiting to happen. Keeping a keyway is a design decision, not an admission of doubt.
Our building intercom releases the front door. Can you work on that?+
No. That release is wired to the intercom, which makes it electrical work and a different trade. Your own suite or staff door, and the reader or keypad on it, are ours. Say which one you mean on the call and nobody wastes a trip.
Will a reader survive on a street door near the water?+
Only if it is specified for it. The same salt that takes out a brass cylinder takes out cheap outdoor electronics, and the failure looks like a fault rather than corrosion so it gets diagnosed wrongly. On an exposed door the exterior parts are chosen with that in mind.
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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.