Cases when because of the broken door lock we are forced to change all door at once are frequent, considering that it is not subject to repair. However practice shows the return, to replace the door lock much more economically and is more practical, than to change all door entirely and if to make it also most, then the question of benefit can and be not lifted. But how then by own efforts to save ""support and protection"" of your house and together with it and your means?
Instruction
1. Choose the lock which you would like to install. Do not buy locks in the market or in other undependable shops - do not save on protection of your house. Consult with the seller in shop, ask it to pick up to you the most optimal variant. Do not buy ""cut-price"" versions of locks which are more than three-four years old. If on them the strong markdown has begun, most likely they were already learned to be cracked. Having made right choice, start the following step.
2. Prepare door for work, hardly you should remove it, as a rule, all operation on replacement of the lock can be performed locally. Just prepare all necessary tools and the equipment. If before you had scarf, just unscrew the old mechanism and already the door is ready to the new lock.
3. If before you had box lock, get special purpose tool for bearing and elimination of the mechanism. If all necessary tool is, work on extraction will not take a lot of time.
4. If you could dismantle independently old, installation of new will not cause in you many emotions. Than mechanisms differed, the way of installation at all is almost identical. Just you remember that the lock has to enter densely door or adjoin to it. Nothing has to dangle or shake. Surely check for working capacity the lock at all stages of its installation. And the main thing, do not hurry! If accidentally under the pressure of actions you damage door, then not to avoid full replacement of all protective unit of your house.