Panic Bars & Exit Devices in San Francisco
Push bars and exit devices on shops, kitchens and stair doors, fitted, rebuilt or brought back into line so the latch lands instead of scraping. $299 to $769 per door.
$299–$769
Typical price
18 min
Avg. arrival
24/7
Availability
An exit device has one job that matters: somebody leaning on it in the dark gets out. Everything else is secondary. Most of what gets reported as a dead bar is not a dead device at all — it is a latch that no longer meets its keeper because the frame moved, a device dogged open one morning and forgotten, or a closer that has stopped bringing the door properly home. Those get put right rather than replaced, and that is the cheaper half of this page.
When a device is genuinely finished it gets replaced with one that suits the door and the traffic, and the difference between a shop door used forty times a day and a warehouse man-door used four hundred is real. On doors near the water the exterior trim and the latch corrode like everything else here, so the finish gets chosen the same way it does on a cylinder.
Alarmed devices, delayed egress and anything tied into a fire panel sit on the boundary: the mechanical device is ours, the wiring and the panel are not. If your door is part of a monitored system, say so and the visit is arranged so nothing gets disconnected without whoever maintains that system knowing.
Work runs $299 to $769 per door with the $89 service call inside it. A rebuild or a realignment sits well below a replacement, which is why the range is wide. Evening adds $55 and after midnight $95. Where several doors are being done in one visit the second and third sit lower, because the van and the technician are already there.
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
Panic Bars & Exit Devices: quick answers
Our bar has stopped latching. Does the whole thing need replacing?+
Usually not. The commonest cause is the frame moving so the latch no longer meets the middle of the keeper, and the fix is realignment on the visit. A device that is genuinely worn out gets replaced, and you will be told which one you have with the reason.
Can you work on a door that is wired to our fire panel?+
The mechanical device, yes. The wiring, the alarm and the panel are not ours. Say on the call that the door is monitored and the visit gets arranged so nothing is disconnected without whoever maintains that system being in the loop.
Several doors at once — cheaper?+
Yes. The $89 visit is counted once for the stop and the second and third doors sit lower in the range because the van and the technician are already there. Worth batching if more than one door has been annoying you.
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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.