I told you not to come back here! Now go away and leave me alone before I call the cops!
(singing "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor)
Best disco song ever!
Too bad I can't sing quite like her.
I've come over to my mom's house today to change out some locks for her.
There's a lot of different reasons why you might have to change out locks.
Hopefully it's not to keep someone undesirable away from you, but
unfortunately that does happen sometimes.
Luckily that's not the case here.
She has a single deadbolt lock on two of her doors, meaning that there's a deadbolt on
the outside, but on the inside there's a lever where you can lock or unlock the door.
Unfortunately she also has these windows right next to her front door, and
all anybody would have to do is bash in that window, stick their hand in and
unlock the door, and they're in.
So we are changing those to double deadbolt locks.
Now, the locks I'm using are these Kwikset SmartKey technology locks.
They are very easy to rekey to your current locks at your house,
so that you don't have to change everything or get all new locks.
This is very easy to do yourself, but the lady that worked in the
lock department at Home Depot actually rekeyed them for me, and she let me film it!
Take a look!
Take the key that it's originally keyed to,
Put that key inside the lock, turn it to three o'clock.
You're gonna take this little tool
in that little divot that you see right there.
You're gonna push that divot in, until you sort of feel it, maybe hear it click.
Take the tool out, take the key straight out. Don't turn it.
Take the key you want it keyed to.
Put it in, and you can feel it
That was some pretty good customer service!
If you're in an unfortunate situation where you do have
to change all the locks in your house, and you can't or don't want to pay for a
locksmith to come out or to buy all-new locks for your house, you can actually
rekey them yourself. There are these little kits you can buy, and there's a
great YouTube page called "The Helpful Lock Picker," and he shows you exactly how to do it.
It IS a little bit painstaking and a lot of detail work, but you CAN do it.
All right, so if you do need to get all new locks make, sure you're matching
the little serial numbers here on the back, and the people at the home
improvement store can help you with that. That way they'll all be keyed the same way.
I have actually never done this before so...we'll see!
First thing you got to do, of course, is take out the old lock.
How do I get that out?
Huh, that's a good question.
Ah! There we go.
Oh, it popped right off.
Unfortunately, now you're gonna have a oval ring on your paint.
All right, here we go.
That guy and that guy actually fit together like a male-female thing.
Jimmy that a little bit
to make sure they are going into each other properly.
C'mon people, work with me here.
All right this is not going the way I want it to right now.
There's multiple screws in this thing, and I couldn't quite figure out why there was
so many different orientations of screws. Just figured it out!
All right, let's try this again shall we?
Take that key out.
Take that paper out.
This plate goes back over that. And then...
Take the little mounded screws that have a flat end on them, stick them in here.
This is why you should read the instructions.
It works!
Awesome!
Yes!
This lock is a little tight, and I
learned recently that you should never put in WD-40 in there, because apparently
it gums up the lock over time and it really only helps in the short term.
So what I've got here is some graphite powder, or graphite lubricant, that you can get
at any place that sells locks. And you're supposed to be able to just basically
squirt some in there.
All right!
Well, that took far longer than it should have.
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