Panic Bars & Exit Devices in Redwood City
Rim and vertical-rod exit devices installed or repaired on shop, restaurant and back-of-house doors, $289 to $759 each.
$289–$759
Typical price
21 min
Avg. arrival
24/7
Availability
The push bar is the first thing an inspector puts a hand on. The kitchen exit of a restaurant on Broadway. The side door of a fitness studio on El Camino. The rear door of a clinic near Kaiser Redwood City. A venue off Courthouse Square with three hundred people inside on a Saturday night. Sequoia Lock & Key installs, rebuilds and replaces rim, mortise and vertical-rod exit devices, along with outside trim, closers and door alarms.
Nothing is ordered until the door has been measured for width, swing, handing and fire rating; those four facts choose the device. A bar that has become stiff, or a latch that will not hold, is usually a worn cam or a strike that has drifted, and a rebuild kit with an adjustment restores it for far less than a new unit. When the device really is spent, the replacement is mounted, and on a vertical-rod model the rods are cut so the top and bottom latches release at the same instant. The finished bar is tested by pushing at the center and at both ends; one that releases only in the middle would not pass, and should not. If you want them, outside lever trim keyed to the building, a closer with enough force to pull the door to the latch, and a local alarm for a door the staff keep wedging open are added in the same visit.
Exit device work runs $289 to $759 per door with hardware included. A rebuild, or a rim device on one standard door, is the $289 end. Fire-rated vertical-rod devices on a pair of doors with outside trim and an alarm reach $759. The $89 service call is inside the figure. Ordinary rim devices are carried on the van. Fire-rated and vertical-rod units are usually a few days from the supplier, and you learn which situation you are in on the first call, not with the door in pieces.
Tell us the door, with a photograph of the hardware on it now. Hear the figure read back from the published range, per door. Watch it fitted: measurement, the rebuild or the replacement, the alignment, a release test with the door closed, and a short written note of anything else on that opening an inspector would raise. Pay what was read; the note is free and never appears as a line on the receipt.
“Our 1926 house has the original mortise lock and I managed to shut the door with the only working key on the kitchen table. The call gave me $139 and a text with a name arrived while I was still standing on the porch. The technician had the door open in a few minutes with the brass untouched, then showed me how the old key was worn and why it had started sticking. $139 on the card, receipt in my email before he reached the van.”
Every job is priced from the list below. The figure is settled on the call, before the van turns its own key, and the receipt shows the same figure.
- Daytime (7am–8pm)standard rates
- Evening (8pm–12am)+$50
- Overnight (12am–7am)+$85
FAQ
Panic Bars & Exit Devices: quick answers
The county fire inspector wrote up our Broadway restaurant and wants the exit door fixed in ten days.+
Ten days is enough. A rim device is often fitted the same day. A fire-rated or vertical-rod device for a pair of doors is typically a week from the supplier, which still fits inside the deadline. The figure is settled on the first call, so you can put it in your written reply to the inspector.
The cooks at our Broadway restaurant wedge the alley door open every night. Is there hardware for that?+
An alarm on the device. The door still opens at once from inside, which the code requires and which is not up for discussion, but it makes a noise about it, and the wedge disappears within a week. Outside key trim lets deliveries come in without anyone switching the alarm off.
The door slams behind the bar. Is the closer part of this job?+
Yes, if the door slams or stops short of the latch. A worn closer makes a sound device look faulty, because the door never reaches the strike with enough speed to catch. The closer is checked while the technician is at the door and quoted on its own line, so you decide.
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One call, one figure, settled before the van turns the key
Calls answered 24/7 for Redwood City and the towns beside it. One figure for the visit, the labor and the parts, with the $89 service call inside it, and a receipt that matches it line for line.