Access Control in Cupertino
Quoted once the doors have been counted. Keypads, readers, electric strikes and credentials for suites and small offices, with a mechanical override cylinder left working on every leaf.
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A key cannot be taken back once it has been handed out. A credential can be switched off on a Sunday evening from a laptop. Everything on this page sits on that one difference, and it is an administrative argument far more than a security one.
Access control here means the door end of the system: keypads, card and fob readers, electric strikes and magnetic locks, exit sensors, the controller and the credentials that go with them. It suits an office suite where staff come and go, a clinic with a records room that needs a log, a shared rear corridor behind a retail row, a driveway gate on a property up toward the foothills, and a landlord tired of reissuing metal after every turnover.
The survey walks each door and writes down three things: what the door is made of, what hardware it carries now, and how far the nearest power and network points sit. Those three answers choose the hardware, not a catalog. A wooden or hollow metal door with a deep frame takes an electric strike. An aluminum and glass front with a stile too thin for a strike takes a magnetic lock at the head, with a motion sensor above the door and a release button beside it. A driveway gate connects to the operator it already has rather than getting a new one. The controller is sized with two spare positions for the doors you will add later, and the credential is whatever your people will actually carry, which these days is more often a phone than a card.
One door in every building keeps a mechanical cylinder on a restricted key. That is a design decision rather than an admission of doubt: a building with no metal key anywhere is one power outage away from being shut, and that is the same argument this shop makes about houses. Electronics run the building. Something still has to open the door when they do not.
The trade line is the same one that runs through the rest of this site. Readers, strikes, maglocks, exit sensors, controllers and credentials are ours. Fire panels, alarm systems and gate motors are not. Access control is quoted per project, itemized door by door with hardware, controller, credentials and labor on separate lines so nothing hides in a lump sum. The $89 survey counts toward the job. After approval the quote holds, and a door that turns out to need new preparation is explained and agreed as its own line rather than appearing on the invoice.
All sixteen jobs are printed here, fourteen with ranges and two quoted once the doors have been counted on site. What moves a figure inside its range is the door, not the lock: a leaf that still hangs true takes the low end, a leaf that has dropped on its hinges or carries a narrower old bore takes the high one. Describe the door on the call and the range closes to one figure.
- Daytime (7am–8pm)standard rates
- Evening (8pm–12am)+$55
- Overnight (12am–7am)+$95
FAQ
Access Control: quick answers
We reissue keys after every turnover. Is this the fix?+
For that specific problem, yes. A credential is switched off in under a minute, while a metal key that never came back means repinning every cylinder it opened. On a property with regular turnover the arithmetic favors readers on the doors that matter and keys on the ones that do not. It is not worth putting a reader on every door in the building.
Do we give up keys entirely?+
No, and you should not want to. At least one door keeps a mechanical cylinder on a restricted key. Electronics fail and power goes out, and a building with no mechanical route in is a lockout waiting for a bad afternoon.
Our front is a sheet of glass in a thin aluminum frame. What holds it?+
A magnetic lock across the head of the frame, because that stile is too narrow to take an electric strike. Inside, a motion sensor above the door and a button beside it release it on the way out. The Adams Rite deadlatch already in the stile stays where it is, so the door can still be locked with a key at night once the maglock is off.
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Say the year the house was built, and the rest of the call is short
Cupertino and the west valley, every hour of the day. The age of the door decides the work and the work decides the figure, so the number comes back on the call with the $89 service call and the hour already inside it, and it is the number on the receipt. Ninety days on the labor, in writing.