and welcome back to Moore Approved I'm James today we're going to show you how
to swap out a lock set so if you're interested in swapping out locks there's
a couple of things that you need to think of when you're going to buy it if
you're just replacing one lock chances are you can just go to your local home
improvement store or go on Amazon buy a unit that comes with a key and then just
take the screws out and insert the new unit and screw it all back together it's
pretty much that simple there are a few considerations if you have like a slate
it usually has a bigger board diameter hole so I recommend getting something
very similar or the same manufacturer when you're going to swap those out
that's going to make it easy most of your standard door locks are going to be
the same size the one that we're replacing right now I don't know what
the brand is but I know that the Kwikset will fit in there and it
should pull up and match up with no problems and I also went ahead and got
the quick key ones so that way I didn't have to look through every single bin on
the shelf and then finding the matching key make which all your manufacturers
are going to have a key variety somewhere on the box and you have to buy
the same one for each unit otherwise you're gonna have different keys for
every door that you're wreaking the tools you're going to need are going to
be a drill either Phillips or flathead or just a
screwdriver you can use either or but I usually like to prefer the screwdriver
because you have a longer shaft so it's easier to get through there if you don't
have a big enough extension on a power drill you run the risk one you're not
gonna be able to get it fully tightened down because now your doorknob is gonna
get them away and also if you go full hog with a power drill when you're
putting this together you run the risk of potentially stripping out the screw
itself or the head in which case you're gonna have not good time replacing that
so you'll practical reduction or get very creative in these pliers and just
let's break into the box you have your interior you have your exterior and then
you have this which actually controls your lock function and how this works is
this goes into your door first so if the door is facing this direction
this pops out at the end this is what catches on your latch this is on either
side of it when you turn this it flips a little lever it makes this go in and out
to lock so you can twist that get that to come out these go right through the
screw holes in here so as you depress this piece that all lines up and then
all you have to do is put this into position line that same shape up do that
and then you just give it a nice little quarter turn and then you're ready to
tighten down your skirt heads so a couple of reasons you might want to
change out your locks is one you just bought a new home so you're gonna want
to verify that the keys that they give you fit in all of the different doors we
have a brand new deadbolt on our front door but it does not open up these back
ones so this goes with the original owner before the people who had last had
it so who knows how many copies of those kids are floating around or if you're
moving out a little place you're changing tenants or changing even as
part of the case maybe you don't feel secure you can always swap these out
pretty quickly so there's only a couple of screws that you have to take out
you're gonna have to and your top deadbolt you're gonna have two of the
handle and then you're gonna have two on the front place that face up the door
and as you can see there's not even any screws in there so this is a very secure
just to begin
let's write this through there line it up
your final step she put your screws in the pitbull good
to go now this just twist into place after you line this up push it up and
then you twist him down comes right through the openings and now you go
ahead and tighten them up
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