Welcome back to Silver Eagle Locksmith Las Vegas YouTube channel, in today's video we're
going to talk about entry door locks including standard, commercial Grades and High Security,
stay tuned.
Before we're going to start talking about the different lock types or before you choose
which front door lock you want to buy, you should know about ANSI which is (The American
National Standard Institute), it's a private non-profit organization that volunteer and
make performing standard for builders hardware, such as door locks.
The purpose of ANSI Grade is to help identify the quality and durability of the locks that
you want to buy and they're actually making the job just for you, so they make a lot of
different operational and security tests.
ANSI rates the locks by Grades and Level of Security and Durability;
The first one is Grade 1 which is the highest grade security level out there such
as High Security.
And the Grade 2 certification is the highest Residential Grade which is one of those locks
that we're going to talk about as well.
The Grade 3 certification is the basic Residential Security and the lowest Grade
Provided by ANSI.
It's a lower quality and most of the Residential homes about 90%-95% are using those types of locks
and we're going to talk about it as well.
The standard locks which is rated by Grade 3 most used by builders and contractors and
Residential homes, even hardware stores sell those locks, you can see them in any famous
hardware stores out there.
Those locks quality, the material, components, the type of keyway that they use is pretty
standard key everyone recognize it, the name is Kwikset keyway (KW1).
The type of lock basically are just standard, nothing special about them, on security level
they give you the lowest security level and some of the people maybe they know, maybe
they don't, but yet it's important for you before you buy new locks to know that the
Residential standard Grade 3 locks are just the cheapest locks out there, we don't recommend
these locks and let's talk about the different Grade 2.
The Grade 2 rated by ANSI is the Highest Residential certification, it’s a heavier duty lock,
what I like to show to my customers, because it's very hard to explain all these things
to a customer, so I'm showing them to hold the standard lock which is this one comparing
to the Grade 2 one and they can feel how heavy it is, because they use like hardened steel
and it's a very heavy duty lock, not the most one, but I definitely recommend it for Residential,
they use (C) keyway, most of them are, most of the locks have the (C) keyway which is "Schalge" keyway and its very
hard to pick it as well.
The side screws are very thick, they're harder to drill as well and the bolt which is one
of the most important part of the lock anyway is made by heavy steel, the durability of
that you can feel it when it's Grade 2 or Grade 3, it makes a big difference if someone tries
to break in, so I like to recommend these locks for any home.
Now we're going to talk about the Grade 1 certification by ANSI which is the High Security Locks.
Now just say you know there's Grade 1 out there that they are not high security.
In this video I'm going to talk about directly to the Grade 1 high security.
Every Locksmith may have their own preference, mine is Mul T Lock and let me give you a little
bit history about this company, it's a small company that started back in 1973 in Israel
where i came from and basically today they're part of the big Swedish Corporation (ASSA ABLOY)
and they're operational and selling access control system, high security locks internationally.
The Mul T Lock Grade 1 by ANSI high security my favorite lock brand and basically these
locks as you can see is a heavy steel, it has a lot of features I'm going to talk about
now and the type of keys look more like a car key, not even have different shape, it's
a telescopic pin system, they have different types of security level as well and I'm going
to talk about it as well.
They have the MT5, they have the interactive plus which is that lock right here and as
you can see that's how the locks look like, that's the bolt, that's the one part that
I really like about that lock which is the bolt part of it, you can see how hard it is,
it's a heavy steel.
When my customers use this for the first time they just fall in love with that lock as it
just looks good and if feels the best.
The Mul T Lock offer key control as well and basically what it does is give you the ability
of controlling who's making extra keys, either ways if its employees or even for Residential,
you want to have the control of who's making keys and how so that locks basically offer that
exact same thing, so it's a card provided, whoever purchases the locks and with this
card you can go to any authorized locksmith that works with the company and you can duplicate
for you extra keys, without that card you won't be able to duplicate the keys, key control
by Mul T Lock.
The Mul T Lock high security offers the highest number of real and theoretical key configuration
that is very hard to replicate unlike a regular standard key.
The different between the Mul T Lock interactive plus and the Mul T Lock MT5+ which is the
newest locks by multi-locks; if I believe, they started that product in 2015.
The big difference between the two is basically on the key.
The multi-lock MT5 offer extra security layers that have a sidebar and alpha spring on the
tip of the key that created to be extra secure for any attacks or if someone tries to pick
the lock, it will give him the hardest time ever.
Okay guys!
Thank you so much for watching, I hope you learned something today about different types
of locks and grades, remember ANSI.
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