Panic Bars & Exit Devices in Berkeley
Exit devices fitted or repaired for shops, kitchens and workshops, $269 to $725 per door.
$269–$725
Typical price
19 min
Avg. arrival
24/7
Availability
A push bar is the first thing an inspector puts a hand on. The back exit of a rehearsal room off Telegraph Ave. The side door of a restaurant kitchen on Shattuck. The pedestrian door beside a loading bay on Gilman Street. A studio in West Berkeley with sixty people inside on a Saturday afternoon. Campanile Lock & Key installs, rebuilds and replaces rim, mortise and vertical-rod devices, along with outside trim, closers and exit alarms.
Door width, swing, handing and fire rating decide which device belongs on an opening, and all four are measured before anything is ordered. A bar that has gone stiff, or a latch that no longer catches, is usually a worn cam or a strike that has drifted out of line rather than a dead device; a rebuild kit and an adjustment put it right for a fraction of a replacement. Where a device is genuinely finished, the new one is mounted, and on a vertical-rod unit the rods are cut and set so the top and bottom latches engage together rather than one after the other. The bar is then tested with a push at the center and again at each end, because a device that only releases from the middle defeats the point of having it. Outside lever trim keyed to your building, a closer that actually pulls the door to latch, and a local alarm on a propped-open back door all go on during the same visit if you want them.
Exit device work runs $269 to $725 a door with hardware included. A rebuild, or a rim device on one standard door, is the $269 end. Fire-rated vertical-rod devices on a pair of doors with outside trim and an alarm reach $725. The $89 visit is counted inside the figure. Common rim devices ride on the van; fire-rated and vertical-rod units are often a few days out from the supplier, and you learn which case you are in on the first call rather than after the door is apart.
Describe the door and send a photograph of the hardware on it now. The figure is agreed from the published range. A text names the technician and the window. On site: measurement, the rebuild or the replacement, alignment, a function test on the closed door, and a written note of anything else on that opening an inspector would question. The note costs nothing and is not turned into a line on the bill.
“Our workshop on Gilman needed a proper exit device on the rear door before the inspection. Quoted $520 installed for a rim device with an outside pull. He mounted it square on a door that has never been square, adjusted the closer so it latches every time, and the inspector had no comment on it at all, which is the outcome you want. Card and emailed receipt.”
Every job is priced from the list below. The figure is agreed on the call, before a technician touches the lock, and the receipt repeats it.
- Daytime (7am–8pm)standard rates
- Evening (8pm–12am)+$35
- Overnight (12am–7am)+$70
FAQ
Panic Bars & Exit Devices: quick answers
The fire inspector gave us two weeks. Is that enough?+
For rim devices, comfortably, and often the same day. Vertical-rod and fire-rated units for a pair of doors usually arrive within a few days, which still fits inside two weeks. The figure for the whole job is agreed on the first call, so it can be quoted in your written response to the inspector.
Staff prop the kitchen door open for the air. What stops that?+
A local alarm on the device, which normally ends the habit within a week. The door still opens instantly from inside, which is the legal requirement and is not negotiable, but it announces itself when it does. Outside key trim lets deliveries in without anyone switching the alarm off.
Does the closer need replacing at the same time?+
If the door slams, or stops short of latching, yes. A tired closer makes a sound exit device look broken, because the latch never reaches the strike with enough speed to catch. It is checked during the visit and quoted as its own line, so the decision stays with you.
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One call, one figure, agreed before the work starts
Calls answered 24/7 across Berkeley and the north East Bay. The $89 service call, the labour and the parts are inside the number you agree to, and nothing is added to it afterwards.