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My friend is buying a new house and all of the doors only lock and unlock with a key. should they take all the door locks off and put new ones on? i think i would be good to have. especially if you want to keep someone in a room but no one else can get in.
[quote=stc123;938157 i think i would be good to have. especially if you want to keep someone in a room but no one else can get in.[/QUOTE]
That is the scariest thing I have heard in a long time.
As far as your friend goes, anytime you buy a house that other people have had keys to the locks should be changed. You never know who the previous owner's might have given a key to that they did not get back.
This can be a fire hazard if the front door requires a key to unlock. Imagine a fire in the middle of the night. You will need to find your key, which could be in another room, to get out.
This can be a fire hazard if the front door requires a key to unlock. Imagine a fire in the middle of the night. You will need to find your key, which could be in another room, to get out.
This would probably be my first concern. I totally agree with you here. Then my next concern would be who else has a key. I would change those locks immediately.
This can be a fire hazard if the front door requires a key to unlock. Imagine a fire in the middle of the night. You will need to find your key, which could be in another room, to get out.
Or you can just do what my wife and I do: keep the key in the inside lock while you're home. We prefer to have our exterior-access doors this way because if a burglar breaks in, he's gonna have a hard time leaving with anything he can't toss out a window. That'll make our electronics harder to steal, unless he has the foresight to toss the mattress out the window first. That'll probably get the neighbors' attention. I can't think of anything else in our place worth stealing...
Or you can just do what my wife and I do: keep the key in the inside lock while you're home. We prefer to have our exterior-access doors this way because if a burglar breaks in, he's gonna have a hard time leaving with anything he can't toss out a window. That'll make our electronics harder to steal, unless he has the foresight to toss the mattress out the window first. That'll probably get the neighbors' attention. I can't think of anything else in our place worth stealing...
The previous owners of our old house had this same line of thinking. Personally, steal the TV and get out. I wouldn't want to come home to a mad burglar who may try to take your life because he found himself locked in your house. Also, what about that one time you forget to put the key in the lock and you can't get out of your house because of a fire, carbon monoxide or any other reason. Most city fire codes don't allow these kinds of locks.
The previous owners of our old house had this same line of thinking. Personally, steal the TV and get out. I wouldn't want to come home to a mad burglar who may try to take your life because he found himself locked in your house. Also, what about that one time you forget to put the key in the lock and you can't get out of your house because of a fire, carbon monoxide or any other reason. Most city fire codes don't allow these kinds of locks.
Why would there be a burglar locked inside your house? Why couldn't he get out the same way he got in?
I also don't understand how you forget to leave the key in the door. We come home, unlock the door, close it, lock it behind us, and leave the keys hanging there. The only time we'd forget to leave the key in there would be if we didn't lock it in the first place, in which case no such hazard exists.
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