Meh - just spent all day on one lock. 1.5hours finding tools and some quite significant number of hours drilling and chiselling away to fit a sash mortice lock.
I must admit - I am pleased on 2 counts:
1) "My first mortice lock" (TM) turned out OK-ish.2) I am not a locksmith because doing those bastards all day would drive me insane!
I did not build the shed - I wimped out because the old one was shagged (most of one side was missing as was half the floor). I need storage so I can get on with the house. So I bought a "workshop grade" one from a local shed company.
Quite impressed with the constriction - it's almost like I would build one by hand if I had the time. The door is a flush fit and tick enough to take a mortice. In fact I actually need to get an extra long square bar (140mm) as the door is so thick.
I have an upgrade plan for when it no longer needs to store crap and can be maybe used as a proper workshop: add celotex and line it properly. Replace felt with "rubber" roofing tiles.
As my old base is 3" out of level over the diagonal (the base is solid enough - just very old and subsided) I went for the "extra base" option.
Also was wise to make the new shed narrower (12x6) instead of 10x8 as the old base is 12x8 and someone extended with an extra 2 ft of concrete. I say concrete - but they clearly forgot to add any cement as the hose can wash it away!
Little less impressed by the installers' idea of levelling the base - few bits of 2x3 acting as "legs" screwed on to an otherwise well made frame with one screw and half the weight of the shed going through about
4 of these "legs".What they should have used is these:
where the load bears directly down through an adjustable pad with a load capacity of 800kg.
I've ordered a few and will slip them in under key beams and then tweak them up until tight. Typical british - build something quite nicely then bodge the installation even when there is an inexpensive product designed to solve that exact problem.
Anyway - one more mortice lock down lower, couple of hinge bolts and it should be pretty solid. Locks are keyed alike with house so no extra keys :)