Modern locks are a pest

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

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Brian Gaff (Sofa)
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Rubbish! You're not holding your mouth right!

Reply to
Xeno

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.

Reply to
Xeno

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

Reply to
Xeno

You omitted to include a *well maintained* system.

Reply to
Xeno

Clare's point is well made then.

Reply to
Xeno

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.

Reply to
Xeno

Scottish stupidity, you mean?

Possibly a clear case of RTFM.

Reply to
Xeno

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

Reply to
Xeno

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.

Reply to
Xeno

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

Reply to
Xeno

Yep, especially in the lock tumbler area.

Reply to
Xeno

Not a single Greek in my heritage, if you don't mind.

Where do you get the idea I'm Greek from? It matters not since you're wrong anyway.

Reply to
Xeno

The ones in the past two houses I owned were damn solid 4x2 hardwood - seasoned rock hard. This one however, I'm not so sure. Likely to be pine framing. Haven't looked but it has inset security screens so they will be very difficult to kick in and that's before you get to the door itself. We do have an alarm, at the wife's insistence, but I rarely turn it on.

Reply to
Xeno

Yip, I wonder how many people are killed by their own guns.

Reply to
Commander Kinsey

You put barred windows in your house?!?

Noise polluting jerk.

Agreed - insurance will always make up an excuse not to pay out.

Oops, I crossposted to the Wild West. They haven't grown up yet.

Stay home all day? Get a f****ng great big Alsatian?

Reply to
Commander Kinsey

Well, he does seem to have rather a lot of burglaries in his area.

Reply to
Xeno

So why the prison cell?

Reply to
Commander Kinsey

The perp (too lazy to type the full word?) could enter quietly. And the owner could have more than one gun (and usually do in the good ole' USA).

Reply to
Commander Kinsey

For what purpose would you engage your mouth to pick a lock?

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Commander Kinsey

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