Modern locks are a pest

Your country has cheap locks. That's not the case here.

That one doesn't have 7 point

I'm assuming you mean double glazed upvc multipoint locking doors? The locks are the same but the mechanism that moves the posts either up and down or in and out do tend to get loose as they age and then of course the handle cant always lock them into position and hence you can't turn the key. Brian

Rubbish! You're not holding your mouth right!

Apart from the fact you're running Windoze, it's operator error.

My security door has a 3 point, never had an issue with it. Try lubing all the points. You might be amazed at the difference it makes.

It is. If someone wants to break in, there are plenty of alternative paths they will use.

You don't want the extra points? Disconnect them.

I've seen a drunken wee Scot named Jimmy do precisely that. He came rolling drunk from the pub one evening and couldn't find his key to his room in the mining camp we were in. He got in but all that was left of the door was a full width strip attached to the top hinge. The lower 90% of the door was missing presumed disintegrated.

Like I have said, plenty of ways to get in if you're keen to do so.

It was the *door centre* that he knocked out. It could well have been multipoint but it wouldn't have mattered - the door itself isn't strong enough and that was the exact point they were trying to make.

You omitted to include a *well maintained* system.

Clare's point is well made then.

Au contraire, that is *very intuitive*. If the downward movement *opens* the door, it's a very small step in logic to suggest that raising the handle *locks it*.

I realise with the sub par endowment the good lord handed you, a lubricant would not have been a fixture in your *experience* but, rest assured, lube those pins and it will go in like Flynn.

Scottish stupidity, you mean?

Possibly a clear case of RTFM.

Brute force and ignorance! Deadly combination. In the repair game, you encounter victims of that *all the time*.

Have you ever seen a door, complete with frame, kicked in? I have! Stick as many bolts in as you like but if you have a crap frame, the best lock in the world is useless.

Keep working at it, you'll reach *average* one day. They say your IQ rises with age.

And do that with graphite powder, nothing else.

Nope, a well designed system doesn't need to be well maintained.