by Sinifar » 3 Jun 2015 8:35
Okay, a week or so ago I was having a fit over the supply house having everything in Chicago. SO I ordered up a bunch of locks, and stuffed them on the truck. Late last week I got a call from John, the Buildings and Grounds super at one of our 6 school districts. He needs a few things rekeyed for the summer, as Park & Rec is putting on summer programs, and summer school -- along with new construction going on and they need access thru non FOB doors.
Scheduled the job for Tuesday.
Grabbed the district files, my work keys with my FOB on it, and my credential, and headed out. Just a note here, I do have a credential and a FOB for most of our 6 school districts. They do a background check then issue you an "official" ID for their district. What this means is I don't need to check in with the front desk and get a "visitor" pass. I also carry a FOB for most of them, which lets me in any door --- although all outside doors will pop open with the GM .... ONLY .... PRIMUS
AN hour later I am out to the job. Pop the back door on the district office and waltz in and ask Julie the district secretary if John is in .. she look at the phone and says -- "Yup on the phone" ... I walk back. Knock on the door, John waves me in, and grabs the clip board hanging behind him while he is still on the phone with the work orders on it.
Hmm, desk key, 2 file keys, rekey a storeroom for district, rekey a storeroom for one of the offices, and rekey the three food service storerooms for the summer.... John gets off the phone and turns to me and we discuss what he wants.
What he wants to do is rekey the food service stores to the OLD MASTER ... NOW back in the 90's during a major reconstruction most of the high school where I am now was redone in Schlage and all outside and quite a few inside doors were done in Primus, the rest MKKD in Classic. The old system was Russwin D-1. We still have a few of those things around mainly for District storage. Like the paint and tile room / lumber room / janitorial depot. Now he wants to put these three on that key.
No problem, I just ordered up a bunch of D-1 cylinders. This is why I carry them for surprises like this John did not say when he called that he wanted to put them on the old system,and I get the news when I get there.
This just paid a dividend. Now I can drive over an hour away, waltz in, do the job, complete, bill and move on to the next one. In the past -- one would have gone up there, looked at the job, then come back here ordered out the cylinders, drive back up and installed them. Over 100 miles on each trip - mostly wasted in windshield time, not to mention John wanted this done by Friday - the 8th -- that would have meant pushing other work off till next week which was promised this week -- it just keeps on going. In the end, having everything with you is the way to go.
OH YA - I also cut that bunch of desk and file cabinet keys on site. I carry a special set of codes, which I will tell you about in another post.
SInifar
PS - JUST a note here, I had called our local for a box (10) LSDA Mortise cylinders, Schlage C, 1 1/8 - 26D. They have them right??? Wrong. Had to come from Chicago. Grrrr. This is a stockroom common item. Isn't it? Something is definitely wrong in Chicago, or Butler..... your choice.
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