San Francisco neighborhood
Five roommates, one front door, and a lot of keys
The big Victorians along the Panhandle and up the hill in Cole Valley were built for one family. Today most hold three, four, sometimes six people who each want their own room to lock and nobody wants to be the one who copies keys for everyone. That is our Haight work, more than anywhere else in the city.
A lock on every bedroom door
The most common request in 94117: a real keyed lock on a bedroom door, so a roommate's room is theirs. We fit privacy and keyed locks to interior doors that were never meant to have them, including the tall old doors with the original brass hardware, and we do it without wrecking the door.
For the front door, more and more shared houses switch to a keypad. Every roommate gets a code, a code gets deleted when someone moves out, and nobody has to meet the new person at a hardware store to copy a key. We install it, set the codes, and show the house how to change them.
The locks that came with the house
These houses also have the oldest locks in the city, and they fail the way old locks do: keys that turn stiffly, cylinders that spin, bolts that stick in summer. We service what can be serviced and replace what cannot, in hardware that fits the original door prep so the facade stays the way it was.
And someone in every shared house loses a key eventually. We open bedroom doors and front doors without damage, and rekey when the lost key is a risk rather than an inconvenience.
What people in 94117 call us for
Lock change and rekey
Keyed locks on bedroom doors; front door rekeys when a roommate moves out.
Smart locks
Keypad entry for shared houses, one code per person.
House and apartment lockout
Lockouts, front door and bedroom door, opened without damage.
Car keys and fobs
Replacement car keys for the one roommate whose key is always missing.
How the price works
Bedroom door locks are priced per door, and the hardware is modest. A front door keypad is priced by the model plus fitting. Both are said before we start.
Free on-site estimate on most jobs, and the final price is said before any work starts. You can still say no.
Questions from the Haight
Can you put a lock on my bedroom door without damaging it?
A roommate moved out and kept the key. What now?
Can each roommate have a different code on the front door?
Does the landlord need to approve a bedroom lock?
Shared house in the Haight that needs sorting out?
Bedroom locks, a keypad on the front door, one visit. Call.