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Locksmith calls on Fourth Street and the blocks around it, from a restaurant door at eleven to an apartment above a shop
The long spine of Fourth Street from the Miracle Mile end to the freeway: shops and restaurants in brick and stucco fronts, the Rafael Film Center, the Mission a block up the hill, apartments on the floors above the shops, and the city garages a block off the street on either side.
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15 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
Fourth Street is fifteen minutes away and its calls come in two waves, at opening and after the last table has paid. The shop fronts are older buildings with a recessed entry, a tile threshold and an aluminum door with a glass panel set into a frame that has held six tenants. The cylinder outlasts most of them. The recurring fault is a deadlatch that no longer reaches the strike because the closer has weakened and the door stops a quarter inch short, so the key turns and the door still pulls open. Storefront work is $155 to $469, and most of it is that adjustment, a fresh cylinder, or a hookbolt on a pair of doors that has been prying apart. A business lockout, with the one key in the coat of a server who has gone home to the Canal, is $135 to $249, with $55 inside the figure between 8pm and midnight.
Above the shops are apartments reached by a street door beside the shop window, then a stair. The street door is on the landlord's key and usually carries a buzzer panel from the 1970s. The unit door carries a knob set and a deadbolt fitted in different decades and never keyed alike. A rekey is $26 to $43 per cylinder and a lockout is $125 to $215, opened without damage first. Around the Mission and up Fifth Ave the buildings are older and quieter, with a rim latch on the street door and a mailbox bank inside it. Say on the call whether the buzzer works and whether the stair is lit; the technician cannot reach a unit door through a dead panel and a dark stair.
The garages a block off Fourth Street hold the cars for dinner and for the film center, and a car lockout there is $99 to $195. The levels look alike at eleven at night, so the level and the nearest stair are asked for on the call. A fob that has gone quiet after the film is $105 to $199 to program a replacement, and a coin cell is tried first. The van parks in the loading zone behind the block or on the ground level of the garage and the case walks the last hundred feet. Arrival is about fifteen minutes, and the full figure is named on the call with the $89 service call inside it.
Give the block of Fourth Street and say which door it is: the shop front, the street door to the apartments, or the rear door onto the lot behind. For a garage, give the level and the nearest stair, and say whether the entrance is still open at this hour.
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FAQ
What people ask about Downtown & Fourth Street
Fourth Street is closed for the Thursday evening market. Can the van still reach my door?+
Yes. On market evenings and during street fairs the van parks on a side street or in the lot behind the block, and the case is carried the last stretch. It adds a few minutes at most and nothing to the figure. Tell us the block and whether your entrance is on Fourth Street or on the rear alley, so the technician comes in from the side that is open.
Our restaurant door will not lock at closing time. Can it be made secure tonight and finished properly later?+
Usually, yes. A deadlatch that misses its strike, or a closer that has given up, can often be adjusted so the door locks before you leave, with the cylinder or the hookbolt replaced at a daytime visit. Both figures are named on the call, so you know what tonight costs and what the finished job costs before anything is started.
The apartment is above the shop and the street door is on the landlord key. Who can authorize the work?+
For your own unit door, you can. For the shared street door or its buzzer panel, the owner or the property manager has to agree, because it is not your door to change. Say on the call which of the two is the problem. It decides who has to be reached and how soon the work can begin.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
One call, one full figure, the same figure on the receipt
Calls answered 24/7 across San Rafael and the Marin towns beside it. The $89 service call, the labor, the parts and the drive up the hill are inside the figure named on the call, and the receipt repeats it.