Three neighborhoods wearing one zip code
94107 covers the hill, the old industrial flat below it, and the new towers at Mission Bay, and they could not be less alike. On the hill it is houses with garages underneath. In Dogpatch it is warehouses, workshops and live work units with roll down doors. In Mission Bay it is new construction with fobs and building systems.
Three different kinds of door, three different kinds of problem, same van.
Garages under the house
The hill is built on a slope, so the garage is the ground floor and the front door is up a flight of stairs. That garage door is often the one everybody actually uses, which means the side door into the house has a lock nobody has thought about in a decade. Those seize. We free them, rekey them, or replace them, and we get them onto the same key as the front door while we are standing there.
Workshops and roll down doors
Dogpatch still has real workshops in it. Roll down gates, hasps, padlocks that live outside in the salt air and rust solid. We cut keys for those, replace the hardware for something that survives the weather, and if the gate is the only way into your livelihood we will say plainly what it needs rather than what is quickest to sell you.
New buildings at Mission Bay
Fobs, buzzer entry, parking gates. Half of what goes wrong in a new building is not the lock at all, it is the system behind it. Knowing which one you have before you start is the whole job.
