Panic Bar Installation

Yes, completely and without exception. Our phones are answered 24 hours a day, every day of the year — including weekends and holidays. If a panic bar mechanism fails at midnight in your Jamaica restaurant or a crash bar on a Sunnyside warehouse door is jammed shut after a delivery shift, we dispatch a trained technician to you right away. We do not route after-hours calls to voicemail or an answering service — when you call 347-960-6280, you reach a live team member who can mobilize help immediately.

Arrival time depends on your specific location within the borough and traffic conditions at the time of your call — Queens is a large and heavily trafficked area, and we will always give you an honest estimated arrival window rather than a number we cannot keep. What we can tell you is that our technicians are mobile and positioned throughout the area, so we are not driving in from outside the borough. For urgent commercial situations — a door that cannot be secured or a building that cannot be accessed — we prioritize dispatch accordingly. Call 347-960-6280 and we will give you a real ETA right away.

The terms are used interchangeably in everyday conversation, and they refer to the same category of exit hardware: a horizontal bar mounted across a door that releases the latch when pushed. The formal industry term used in building codes is 'exit device.' The right unit for your door depends on the door width, the frame type, the level of outside security control you need, and whether your application requires a mortise lock panic bar system for full outside key control. Our technician will assess all of these factors on-site and recommend the correct device for your specific door — we do not sell hardware that is oversized or underpowered for the application.

Yes, and this is one of the more common requests we handle on older Queens commercial buildings. Many doors on properties built in the 1970s and 1980s already have a mortise lock body mortised into the door stile. In many cases, a compatible panic bar trim can be fitted to the existing mortise case, saving the cost of a full replacement. In other cases — when the existing mortise lock is worn, non-compliant, or incompatible with current exit device standards — a full panic bar with mortise lock replacement is the right call. Our technician will tell you honestly which situation you are in before any work begins.

There is no single flat rate, and any locksmith who quotes you a firm price over the phone without knowing your door type, hardware, and location is guessing. The factors that determine your actual cost include the type of exit device being installed or repaired, whether a mortise lock is involved, the condition of your existing door frame and strike, the time of day, and where in Queens your property is located. What we commit to is this: once our technician sees the door, you receive an exact confirmed price before work starts. No work begins until you have agreed to that number. To get a real estimate, call 347-960-6280.

There are several things worth confirming before you allow any technician to work on your egress hardware. First, ask whether the technician has hands-on experience with commercial exit devices specifically — not just residential locks. Second, ask whether the business is insured, and confirm that before the job starts. Third, ask for an exact confirmed price before work begins, not a range or an estimate that can grow after the fact. Fourth, ask whether they can assess your specific door type — hollow metal, solid wood, aluminum storefront — and recommend the correct device for it. At Jericho Turnpike Locksmith, our technicians are trained on commercial hardware and insured, we confirm the price before touching the door, and we carry hardware suited to the range of doors found across Queens commercial properties.