Door locks

[Mary Jennings]

Saitaina, commenting on Yale locks:

>The only upside to this lock is locking in a cute cable repair guy and 
>watching him try to struggle to get out (he said he didnt' need my help so 
>I sat on the bed and watched).

And I'm sure you *conveniently* found the keys some five minutes after he 
left, eh?  Smart girl ;)

When we bought our house it didn't have a key-only Yale lock but did have 
the type of lock that locked you out if you weren't careful.  Considering 
that our front door is forever slamming shut by itself we had this lock 
removed and now have a normal door-handle one with a keyhole.  Our main 
point of entry is the sunroom at the back anyway, but the number of times we 
nearly got locked before we got the locks changed...

Some people were never meant to have self-locking doors, and I'm one of 
them. It's now such a force of habit to lock the doors with the key anyway 
that I've been known to lock DH in the back garden a few times.  I keep 
telling him it's nothing personal, but he's not so sure.

Our house is from 1935 and most of the internal door mechanisms are 
original, though we had the actual door handles changed.  A few years ago, 
when Beth and Gareth were sharing a bedroom, I couldn't get their bedroom 
door open one morning.  The kids were too young to understand, but I was 
panicking like hell.  It took me several phone calls to track down a 
locksmith who could come straight away; in fact if this locksmith hadn't 
been able to come I would have phone the fire brigade.  The locksmith got 
the door open with minimal effort.  The mechanism had worn out and the latch 
that's supposed to release the door catch no longer worked.  As I said, the 
kids had no inkling that something was wrong, but I aged a few years that 
morning.

Mind you, a house full of firemen would have done me some good...

Mary Ann
(who's usually good at leaving the house with the keys and the correct 
number of children)

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