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you're returning thanks it means a lot okay today we're going to look at this deadbolt lock set
and the reason i wanted to look at it was because i'm pretty impressed
um it's by ace hardware i'm not affiliated with them they didn't um
sponsor me for this or anything i went and got it it's it was their cheapest deadbolt lock set
their polish brass one noble house i think it was like 13 or 14 bucks cheap
the reason i got it at ace was because ace is a lot closer to my house than a
lowe's or a home depot and i was like i'll give them a shot for the savings and gas
it's nearly three times further from my house so i opened it up and i looked at it and i was
actually really impressed the brass fittings here or the um spacers for where the deadbolt goes
they were inside this little bag all the bolts and everything were wrapped up nice
in the box everything comes in little bags keys work perfectly what i found unique
was this little spacer now i haven't done a deadbolt in a while so i don't know of any
newer kits but i don't remember any of the kits from the other big box stores um having this
and that takes up the gap in the door so we're gonna get it installed on the door
and see how it looks we'll take a look at the actual door itself too
okay this is your standard pre-cut hole solid door it's a little dirty and i gotta paint it
but it's an exterior door so i'm not worried about it yeah that hole was pre-cut and most
of the time when you get a door like this or you're swapping a door and it's not new the
holes and the slots and everything aren't really going to line up and this one doesn't line up
either because if you look down here the striker is way lower so the handle should be about here
not too far from the deadbolt but look how low the striker is like probably only three
feet from the ground it's really low so we're going to dead bolt in there and see how it looks
okay so stuck the catch bolt in and it fit perfectly no adjustments but this did have
an adjustment on the collar if you need to bring it in or out and then normally
you would just on a normal set that i've seen before you would just put the head on there
and then you would have to line up you know keep it steady
this one though came with a little plate
so it fills in the gap
and that lip rides on the inside
on the inside right here so we'll get that in
all right now that it's in you can see you can't see no gap anymore and it's pretty much lined up
so we'll get the backing plate on and start the
two screws leave everything loose until you make your final adjustments on here
okay so we tightened everything down
those two screws these two screws hand tight you don't need to go anymore and it works flawlessly
get the key in there
works great all right so the next side we're going to talk about is
going to be the actual security side of everything
so depending on what type of door spacing you have if it's pre-drilled or not like i said this
one was uh just in the wrong spot everywhere so i had to actually cut down a little bit of the wood
and that's the inside security plate and then there's a strike plate that goes over it
and kind of doubles over on there like that
and then the door closes and i'll show how tight the fit is
you see it's only a small gap there and i had to cut a little bit off the door
to make everything fit but it closes perfectly and this will be the
filler in there that'll take up the space so we'll get it all installed and take a look at it
all right the striker plates installed see the double plates there for security you just got to
get some wood filler and fill this in if you had to make some adjustments or chips and close it up
and that's that so yeah the ace hardware kit was uh definitely an easy easy simple lock to install
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