hey guys welcome back to how to with Kevin so as we continue to work on
our lake house where again a lot of things needed done when we as soon as we bought it
um starting off with a lot of just fixing things and one of the big things that we
had was multiple doors with multiple keys and this door in particular actually does not even
work what we wanted to do is number one not have all these separate keys fix this one and instead
of getting a locksmith to come in and basically re-keying everything so what we decided to do was
use this kwikset option which has a smartkey and as long as your key fits into this lock you
can basically rekey the lock to fit your current key and so what we've done is really replace one
lock basically it matches two of the other locks right now this will be the fourth one and again
so particularly because the locks that we have on this door and one of the other doors with sort of
that brass looking which not my favorite but we couldn't upgrade the other door because of some
decorations around the actual glass that is sort of gold looking so we sort of kept that
one in the future we may replace these doors completely but for fifteen dollars this was a
nice option to basically just get a lock on there that for this door actually works and number two
um get a lock on here that uses the same key so let's go ahead and get started
so the first thing you want to do before you even get started is to see if your current
key will actually work and it has to at least go in there we'll notice here and again this
I knew it would work because we use the same other set the same key on a different op door
already now it won't turn it and we'll we'll show that once we get later on but we do know
at least the key goes in here so we will have the option to re-key it first things first is
taking the old lock off and just to sort of show you here this bottom obviously just the just the
latch so we don't have to do anything here and so I wanted to get again this gold one to just
match it in the future we'll probably replace all of this and maybe get rid of this brass
which again for fifteen dollars for immediate things well we got other projects to work on
um this was a good good option for us right now okay so with any basic lock you're literally just
taking the screws from the inside off so let's go ahead and just take those out real quick
all right
okay screws are out old lockset is now out so again we're going to take all of
30 seconds um so the next thing we're going to do is just to take this out and I will do this
will actually restart here okay so the first thing I'm going to do is take the latch bolt and see if
this is in the middle here okay you can clearly see from this that is not is on the inside and
so what you'll do is you'll just rotate it up here and push it in the other thing that you'll notice
is there is an up it says up here that's the side that's going to go up so we're going to go
ahead and stick it in that way and this with that little twist there we now have this in the middle
okay okay so the next first next thing I'm going to do is just actually get this screwed back in
so this plate is steady here I'm actually using the old screws that were in here because they
were a little longer than the other ones and so the ones that came with the package
um were just a little shorter and I think I just want to make sure that
this doesn't get loose so again the old screws are fine to use here give it a good turn
right nice and tight nice good fit okay I went ahead and moved the door a little bit so we
could see better and what we're going to do is we want to take this rod here and get into so again
this is this whole talk thing so this is from the outside of the door the exterior and based
on what I can see here that arrow the rounded part is on this left side and it's flat here
so you can probably see here that's flat I guess I shouldn't show you a little bit better as soon
as a flat side you just want to make sure so it goes easily through there okay just like that we
want to make sure it does say kwikset on the top okay so let me go ahead and spin this back around
okay we're back onto the interior side of the door okay so you have all the screws that you need
um I guess maybe this is a good point to tell you that I am not being sponsored by this video
um this is really just a solution that I use at my old house and
um and that was a few years ago so maybe there's a different solution but this again
works really well for me and so I just stuck with what worked before
all right so same thing you want to make sure that the rounded area is facing here this also
knows note that there is a little dimple here because it's going to show locked you can see
it might you might be able to see it here it says locked a little dimple on top and so what you're
we're looking to do is to work this right on same same notice and you can see that pulled it out
okay the other thing and again we want that locked so we can get both holes so we have access to put
the screws in now the key here obviously is that you gotta hit so let me take this off you got to
work through to get to the back so there's holes here and then on the exterior lock it needs to
go through there directly okay and so again what you can do I just want to show you just to make
clear there are that's where the screws go so when you have this in you want that to be as
so you went that I mean just to be clear here you can take the screw
and if again if you're going right through you're missing it so what you can do
is just take a look here and again my lighting is not great okay so right here once I pull out
and make sure those are in I use my hand on the other side to keep it pushed in
so I take again the interior and then make sure that again it fits here
and I want that bolt facing the top and then we're just again looking to get this
this level so that it's going through and then boom feel the tightness that's one I
got one started I like to take the second before I push it all the way in make sure there we go
okay and again do I know yes if I pull they're not coming out so I know it got to the other side okay
all right so the lock is on that's part of what we're looking to do here and
did I say again I'm not being sponsored for this video this is purely just something that I've used
and want to make sure that um you guys know it's an option again you could call a locksmith I'm
sure if a locksmith's watching this I probably like call a locksmith don't use this however
a little bit cheaper per lock for sure okay so you can see that works it's going through the existing
strike plate which I did not put a new one in because I already had one there and it's fine
okay so save a little bit of time you can just sort of use that and if you feel like you need
another strike plate onto the actual frame they give one to you again it didn't need to use it
because it works just fine okay all right so this obviously is only part of what we talked about
all right so what I wanted to show you is the current key that I want all of my locks to use
goes through like we checked at the beginning does not turn the lock
what does work is the key that comes with it right because it's like getting any new lock
okay but that's obviously not what we want otherwise we wouldn't want any other lock
this one we decided to buy the kwikset with the smartkey so that we could rekey the lock
so that the key that we want to work Works versus doing it the other way around so
this is the actual little smart key device that we're going to I'll show you how to
use it does come with these directions and just for myself I constantly will
look at them just to make sure I'm doing it right because there is an order to do this
okay okay so to get started you're gonna take the key that came with the lock again the one
that works okay and we want to put it in a locked position okay take that out and
then following the instructions we're going to rotate this current key to 90 degrees okay
at this point we're going to take the smartkey
and there's a little slot here right above where this key is how well we can see it here but
right above the current key there's a little slot we're going to stick that in there okay
and I always like to look at these directions just so I know and you want to discuss should go all
the way again it doesn't go that far just up to this uh where the bend becomes so right into here
once you get it all the way in take it out
pull out the current key and the key that came with the kit it don't change anything then we're
going to take the key that I want it to work we're going to put that in there again following the
directions make sure it's all the way in and that's one thing the directions do tell you
you're going to take it 180 degrees so all the way around so still flat it just all the way around
then you're going to take it and pull it out okay next just to make sure it works
and that's the new key okay
what you could do is just double check that the old key doesn't work anymore if you want
to do that so again these are the ones that came with the kit I put that in there it doesn't work
so we put the new key in again so now I have a key that's working for multiple locks I don't have to
have all these different keys to flip around on my key ring did not do a locksmith 15 dollars for
a key saved a little bit of money and there you go pretty simple right and again I know you guys
are looking at that water but and so that's it just a real easy way to put a new lock on and it
matches your current keys again this kwikset smartkey set perfect 15 dollars matched what
I wanted to put in here again a little different you can see the design I'm going to rub that out
a little bit but again this door is probably going to be replaced I don't love this brass
look however it is what it is all right let me put my regular glasses back on and I just want
to thank you guys for watching the video I hope you found it helpful and if you did please like
it and because this is just one project of many at this lake house that we recently got
um there is more to come um the list is long again this is one that's checked off
but more things that we're gonna do here a lot of things just getting it to work and
fix but eventually we're going to upgrade and update things so there's a lot of things that
we have planned on this channel so if you haven't subscribed yet definitely subscribe
um you know definitely leave comments let us know what your thoughts on things again if you're a
locksmith you're probably not liking this video and that's okay um but for for me um again this is
a good option and I hope it could be a good option for you too again not sponsored just something
that I've done in the past with the kwikset smart key lock set and it's a really convenient and sort
of an economical way to to basically reduce it to one key so you don't have 50 keys on your
key ring so anyways thanks again for watching I hope to talk to you guys soon take care [Music]