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Downtown and East 14th: security grilles at seven in the morning, flats over the shops at eleven at night
The main street through the middle of the city, with Washington Avenue, the Bal Theatre, the BART station and the short cross streets. Storefronts at the sidewalk, rented flats on the floors above, public lots behind the buildings. Fifteen minutes from the van on Davis Street.
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15 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
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The commercial half of this street wakes up first. A roll-down grille that will not lift, a cylinder that spins loose in a glass door because its retaining screw has backed out, a key bent flat by a pocket full of change: those are the seven in the morning calls, and none of them need a new lock. Where hardware really has reached the end, storefront door locks are $155 to $449 and the count is per door, so a shop with one entrance hears one door and a corner unit with two hears two. A business lockout is $129 to $239. Restaurants on this stretch also keep a rear door onto the service lane with an exit device on it, and $289 to $739 per door covers a bar that has stopped holding. Whatever it turns out to be, the number quoted on the call is the number on the emailed receipt, and card or tap is taken at the door.
Upstairs is a different building. A door on the sidewalk, a stair, a landing, and unit doors that have collected hardware from three different decades. A flat lockout is $119 to $205. The lock is opened intact, since it belongs to the building rather than to the person standing on the landing; if it ever came to drilling, that would need a yes first and it would not raise the number. Say on the call whether the street door still opens and whether the entry panel rings through to a phone, because a technician who cannot reach the stair cannot reach the flat. Between tenants a rekey is $26 to $42 per cylinder, and two flats off one landing use the $89 visit once inside a single figure. Where a landlord needs the job on paper, a written line naming the address, the doors and the keys handed over goes out with the receipt.
Then there are the cars, and downtown they cluster in the BART lot, the two public lots and the metered curb. A car lockout is $99 to $189. Name the lot and the row when you call and the technician walks straight to the vehicle instead of reading plates in the dark. A fob that has gone quiet after a couple of years usually wants a coin cell and nothing else; where the car has genuinely lost the fob, programming a new one at the vehicle is $89 to $185, and that floor sits level with the $89 visit and cannot fall below it. The last calls of the night come after the theater and the kitchens empty out. Calls are answered 24/7, with $45 inside the figure from 8pm to midnight and $80 from midnight to 7am.
Name the block of East 14th or the nearest corner, and say which opening it is: the grille, the shop door, the street door to the stair, or the rear door on the lane. For a flat, the unit number and whether the entry panel rings through both help.
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The street door to my stair is locked too. Does that count as a second door?+
No. On the flats above these shops the street door, the stair and your own door are one visit, and the figure said on the call covers all of it. Say when you ring whether the street door still opens and whether the entry panel rings through to a phone, because a technician who cannot reach the landing cannot reach the flat.
Where does the van stop on East 14th in the middle of the day?+
In the loading zone on your block, or in one of the public lots behind the buildings when the curb is full. Give the block number and the nearest corner and the technician walks in from there. The walk is never a line on the receipt, however far back the van had to leave the street.
Our grille has to be up before the shop opens. Is seven in the morning too early?+
It is the normal hour for this street. A roll-down grille that will not lift is usually a seized cylinder or a bottom bar knocked out of line rather than a dead lock, and both are worked on the spot. Say your opening time when you call and the visit is set to land ahead of it.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
Houses in the morning, shop floors after, and the figure said before either one starts
San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Ashland, Oakland, the airport and Doolittle strip, and Alameda across the channel, 24/7, holidays included. Describe the door, hear one figure with the $89 visit inside it and the unit it is counted in, and the lock gets opened without damage wherever it can be. The receipt says what the call said, whether the deed is in your name or the lease is.