Panic Bars & Exit Devices in Hayward

An exit device has exactly one job: to let a room full of people out with one push, in the dark, with no key involved. Eden Locksmith fits, rebuilds and replaces them across Hayward on the kitchen door of a B Street restaurant, the side door of a gym on Mission Boulevard, the rear door of a warehouse near Industrial Boulevard, the community room of an apartment building on Tennyson and the hall that holds two hundred people on a Saturday night. Rim devices, mortise devices and vertical-rod devices, with outside lever trim, the closer above, and where the door earns it, an alarm on the bar.

A bar that takes two hands, or a latch that no longer catches, is more often a tired part than a dead device. A worn cam, a strike that has crept a few millimeters, a rod stretched a quarter inch: each one is corrected with a rebuild kit and an adjustment for a fraction of what a new device costs, and that is the first thing looked at. When the device really is finished, the replacement is chosen off four measurements taken at the door itself: leaf width, swing, handing and the fire label on the edge. Vertical rods get trimmed so the top and bottom latches release together instead of a beat apart. New or rebuilt, every device is pushed at the center and at both ends with the door shut before the technician packs up, because a crowd does not push politely in the middle and neither does an inspector. Lever trim keyed to whatever else you carry, a closer that actually brings the door to the latch, and a local alarm for a door the staff keep propping can all be handled in the same visit.

Exit device work is $279 to $719 per door, hardware included, with the $89 service call counted in. A rebuild, or a new rim device on one standard door, sits at $279. A fire-rated pair with vertical rods, lever trim and an alarm reaches $719. Rim devices ride on the van; fire-rated and vertical-rod devices usually come from the supplier within a few days, and you hear which case yours is on the call rather than with the door standing open.

You call and say what happened, and send a photograph of the hardware that is on the door now. The figure per door is said on the call. The van leaves Jackson Street, and a text names the technician and gives a thirty-minute window. The door is measured, rebuilt or refitted, aligned and then pushed with the door closed, at the center and at each end. The technician leaves a short written note of anything else at that opening an inspector may raise, and that note is not a line on the bill. The receipt shows the figure from the call.