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Bayshore: the industrial northeast along Geneva Avenue, where the Cow Palace stands in Daly City no matter what its mail says
The working corner of the city on the far side of the hill: yards, units and small industrial buildings along Geneva Avenue, and the arena at 2600 Geneva that has a San Francisco postal address while sitting on Daly City ground, with the county line crossing its upper parking lot. Twenty-six minutes out, the far corner of the city from the base.
~26 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Doors in this corner fail from use rather than from weather. A man door beside a roll-up gets pushed open a couple of hundred times a shift by people carrying things in both hands, and the habit that follows is the one that causes trouble: somebody dogs the push bar down in the morning so the door swings freely, and at the end of the day nobody undogs it. The building then spends the night with a door that closes, looks shut and is not locked at all. Half the exit device calls out here are that, and the fix is a routine and a check rather than a part. Business lockouts are $139 to $259, unit and storefront hardware is $159 to $469 per opening, and exit devices are $299 to $779 per door when a device genuinely has to be rebuilt or replaced.
Padlocks are the other constant, and grit does more damage here than salt. Gates, container hasps and utility cages take dust off yards and truck traffic all year, and it works down into the spring pocket under the shackle until the lock will close obediently and then refuse to open. They give up on the morning when everything is already running late. Cutting a seized one and fitting a replacement is a small line on a visit already at the yard, and any padlock that has started to feel gritty is worth dealing with on a slow afternoon instead.
Where a landlord holds a row of units, or where staff should open some doors and not others, master key systems and access control are quoted after the openings have been looked at in person, which is why neither carries a printed figure. The number of doors, what is already fitted to each of them and the state of the frames set the price, and none of those three can be established down a phone line. What can be settled on the phone is how long the survey takes and when somebody can come and do it.
Event nights at the arena put a few thousand cars on Geneva Avenue and produce the automotive half of the work: keys shut in a car in a dark lot, a fob that gave up in the cold, an ignition that turns halfway and stops. A car lockout is $105 to $199, fob programming $95 to $199, a key cut and coded at the vehicle $155 to $419, ignition work $185 to $459. Twenty-six minutes is the real run to this corner, evenings add $50 and the overnight hours add $90, and all of it is said before you agree.
For a business, name the street off Geneva Avenue and say whether the trouble is the man door beside a roll-up, a gate, a padlock or a glass front, and say whether a delivery or a crew is standing idle, since a stopped operation gets moved up the list where it can be. For a car near the arena, say which lot and which side of it, since the county line runs through the upper parking and a wrong guess costs a walk.
Nearby
Over the hill, the same van
FAQ
Asked about Bayshore
We found the back door unlocked again and nobody admits to leaving it open.+
Check whether the push bar is dogged. On most exit devices the bar can be held down deliberately so the door swings free for loading, and once it is down the door latches nothing until somebody releases it. Crews do it every morning for good reasons and forget it every evening. If the dogging cannot be reached or the device no longer holds its setting, that is exit device work at $299 to $779 per door, and quite often the answer is a five-minute lesson instead.
Can you price a master key setup for our units over the phone?+
No. Any number given down a phone line for that work is invented. Somebody comes out, opens each door, notes what is in it and how the frame stands, and asks who is meant to open what. You then get a written price and a keying chart to approve before a single pin is cut. Arranging that survey does not oblige you to go ahead with anything.
Do you cover the arena parking on event nights?+
Yes, and those nights are when the calls come. A car lockout is $105 to $199 wherever the car is standing, with the evening $50 or the overnight $90 already inside the figure you are quoted. Tell us which lot and what the car looks like, and stay with the vehicle rather than at the gate, because the lots empty in a rush and a car described by row is found much faster than one described by memory.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
Say which door you are standing at and the call gets short
Daly City and the north Peninsula, every hour of the day. The door decides the work and the work decides the number, so the figure comes back on the call with the $89 call-out and the hour already inside it, and it is the figure on the receipt. Ninety days on the labor, in writing.