San Francisco neighborhood
When someone else has your keys
A bag taken on the street, a car window broken on Polk, a storefront door forced overnight. In this part of the city a lot of our calls start with something that already went wrong, and the job is to make sure it doesn't go wrong twice.
One visit, every lock that key opened
When a purse or a backpack is stolen, the thief has more than a wallet. They have the apartment key, the mailbox key, the car key, and often a piece of mail with the address on it. We treat it as one job: rekey the apartment door, change the mailbox lock, and make a new car key so the old one no longer starts the car. All in the same visit, so you are not waiting on three appointments while someone holds your keys.
The same goes for business owners along Polk and in the blocks below California Street. After a break-in, the storefront cylinder gets changed, the back door gets looked at, and if a panic bar or a strike plate was damaged on the way in, it gets fixed before the shop opens.
Steep streets, old buildings, careful work
Nob Hill and Russian Hill are full of apartment buildings from the 1920s with heavy entry doors, buzzer systems and unit doors that have been rekeyed a dozen times. Lockouts here are often two doors, not one: the street door and the apartment door. Tell us on the phone and the technician comes ready for both.
Parking is the other thing. We know where the van can stop on these hills, so the technician is at your door with the tools instead of circling the block.
What people in 94109 call us for
Lock change and rekey
Locks changed or rekeyed after a theft, so the stolen key is useless.
House and apartment lockout
Apartment lockouts, including the building door.
Car keys and fobs
A replacement car key after the original was stolen with the bag.
Business locks and access control
Storefront cylinders, panic bars and strikes repaired after a break-in.
Safes, mailboxes and storage
Mailbox locks changed when the mailbox key is gone too.
How the price works
After a theft, the price depends on how many locks the stolen key opened: the apartment door, a mailbox, a car. We price the whole visit 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 Nob Hill
My bag was stolen with my keys and my ID. What should I do first?
The building door is locked too. Can you handle both?
Someone broke into my shop on Polk. How soon can you come?
Do you work in the middle of the night here?
Keys stolen on Nob Hill or Polk?
Call now. We make the stolen key useless today.