Panic Bars & Exit Devices in Danville
$335 to $849 per door. Push bars and exit devices for shops, kitchens and the rear doors onto the service lane. Fitted new, rebuilt, or realigned so the latch drops into the keeper instead of dragging across its face.
$335–$849
Typical price
19 min
Avg. arrival
24/7
Availability
An exit device carries one duty that outranks everything else the door does. People leaning on it in the dark, without a key and without thinking, get out. Every other function is subordinate to that, and every visit ends by testing it.
Most reports of a dead bar turn out not to be a dead device. A latch stops meeting its keeper because the frame moved. A device was dogged down one morning and nobody undogged it. A vertical rod has stretched enough that the top and bottom latches no longer release on the same push. A closer has quit pulling the leaf all the way home. Each of those is a kit and an adjustment at a fraction of a new device, and it is the cheaper half of this page. On the rear exits along the service lanes behind the old center the frame is usually the culprit: a steel door in a masonry opening takes the afternoon sun full on and moves further than the hardware bolted to it.
A device that is genuinely finished gets replaced off four measurements taken at the door: leaf width, swing, handing, and the fire label on the edge. The label governs. A rated opening cannot accept a device with a dogging feature, and ignoring that is how a building fails an inspection with new hardware on the wall. Rim devices travel on the van. Fire-rated pairs and vertical-rod sets usually arrive from the supplier within a few days, and you learn which case yours is during the call rather than with the door propped open.
One boundary runs straight through this work. Bar, latch, keeper, outside lever trim and closer are mechanical and they belong here. Anything alarmed, anything on delayed egress and anything wired back to a fire panel does not, and working on it without the company that maintains that system is how a building slips out of compliance. Tell us on the call whether the opening is monitored and the visit gets planned around it.
Exit device work runs $335 to $849 per door including hardware, and the $89 call-out is part of it. A rebuild or a realignment sits at the bottom of that. A rated pair on vertical rods with keyed lever trim and a closer reaches the top. Several doors in one stop bring the second and third down, since the van and the technician are already on site. Evening puts $55 inside the figure. New or rebuilt, every device gets pushed at the center and then at both ends with the door shut, because a crowd does not push in the middle and neither does an inspector. Ninety days on the labor.
Sixteen jobs, fourteen of them with a range and two quoted once the openings have been counted on site. What moves a figure inside its range here is how far the door has walked away from its frame: a leaf and a strike still in line take the low end, a leaf that has moved with the season and a strike that has to be cut back into the jamb take the high one. Say how the door behaves when you pull it to, and the range closes to a single number on the call.
- Daytime (7am–8pm)standard rates
- Evening (8pm–12am)+$55
- Overnight (12am–7am)+$95
FAQ
Panic Bars & Exit Devices: quick answers
The bar travels fine and the door still swings back open. Does the whole device go?+
Nearly always not. In most cases the frame has moved a few millimeters and the latch is riding the edge of the keeper instead of dropping into it, and that is an adjustment. Where a device really has worn out, the worn part goes into your hand before anything is ordered.
An inspection came back with a note on the back exit and a date on it.+
Two weeks is plenty. A rim device is on the van and the opening can be finished the day you call. A rated pair on vertical rods comes in from the supplier inside a week and goes on the day it lands. You have the figure from the phone call, so the inspector gets an answer that afternoon.
On hot evenings the crew wedges the back door open. Can hardware solve that?+
Fit a local alarm on the bar. One push from inside still opens the door, as it has to, and the sounder starts a few seconds after the door is held open, which cures the habit within a week. Keyed lever trim outside lets an early delivery in on its own key.
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Tell us whether the door has to be pushed before it locks, and the call is short
Danville and the San Ramon Valley, at any hour. The condition of the door sets the work and the work sets the price, so you get one number on the phone with the $89 service call and the hour already inside it, and that number is what the receipt shows. Ninety days on the labor, in writing, covering the frame as well as the lock.