Business Lockout in Berkeley
Shop, office or lab door opened once authorization is confirmed, $119 to $219.
$119–$219
Typical price
19 min
Avg. arrival
24/7
Availability
The one key went home in somebody's coat pocket. A cafe on Shattuck Ave with bakers waiting on the sidewalk at five. A studio on Gilman Street with a padlock that will not release at shift change. An office above a College Ave storefront whose mortise lock seized on a Sunday. Campanile Lock & Key opens commercial doors anywhere in the city at a figure agreed before the van sets out.
Commercial doors run a wider catalog than houses. Aluminum storefronts use an Adams Rite deadlatch buried in the stile, office suites use mortise cases with lever trim, West Berkeley shops use rim cylinders, hasps and padlocks, and small buildings use interchangeable cores that come out with a control key. Each of those is picked, decoded or bypassed on its own terms. Authorization is checked harder than at a house: photo ID plus a lease, a business filing, a utility bill in the business name, or a text from the owner naming you. Once you are inside, the cylinder that let you down can be repinned during the same visit.
Business lockouts run $119 to $219. A single deadlatch or lever lock during business hours is $119. Mortise cases, restricted cylinders, interchangeable cores and doors with two locking points climb toward $219, and the $89 service call sits inside whichever figure applies. A repin done on the same visit is $22 to $37 a cylinder and appears as its own line. Evening work brings the $119 opening to $154; before 7am it reads $189.
The call settles the figure. A text carries the technician's name and the window. On site: authorization, the opening, a check that the latch still catches the strike squarely, and an offer to repin if a key is unaccounted for. Card or tap, and the itemized receipt goes to whichever address your bookkeeper wants while the van is still at the curb.
“Locking up our office suite above Shattuck at half past one in the morning and the cylinder seized with a staff laptop still inside. I was quoted $205 with the overnight hour already inside it, which was the honest number for that time of night. Thirteen minutes to arrive, my lease checked on my phone, and the lock opened without drilling. We booked a replacement cylinder for the following week as a separate job.”
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
Business Lockout: quick answers
The padlock on our Gilman Street workshop has seized. Can it be saved?+
Often. A padlock that will not turn is usually gummed pins or a corroded shackle spring rather than a wrong key, so it is picked open, then flushed and relubricated. If the shackle has bound past use it is cut and a replacement of the same shackle length goes on, quoted before the cutter comes out of the van.
Our manager has the only key and is not reachable. What do you need from me?+
Proof that the business is yours: a lease, a state filing, or your name on the utility account for that address. Once the door is open, most owners repin that cylinder at $22 to $37 so the missing key stops being an open question by lunchtime.
Restaurant back door on Telegraph after service. Do you come out that late?+
Kitchen doors with panic hardware and outside key trim are ordinary late work. After midnight the $70 is already inside the figure you are given, so a $119 opening reads $189 and stays at $189 whatever the door turns out to be.
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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.