Replacement of the door lock - rather laborious procedure which demands attentiveness and patience. However practice shows that anyone can replace the door lock, and make it much more economically and is more practical, than to change all door entirely or to call the master. Therefore if to make replacement most, then the question of benefit can and be not lifted. But how then by own efforts to replace "keeper" of your house and together with it and your means?
Instruction
1. Pick up the lock which would suit you at the price and quality. Do not buy locks on market disorders or in other undependable shops - do not save on protection of your house. Otherwise be not surprised to uninvited guests in few weeks after replacement of the lock. Consult with the seller in shop, ask it to help you to choose the most optimal variant. Do not buy "cut-price" locks of old models which are more than three-four years old. The strong markdown, as a rule, speaks about one: most likely they were already learned to be cracked. Having picked up the key mechanism, start the following step.
2. Prepare door for replacement of the lock. You should not remove door, most likely, as all operation on replacement of the lock happens locally, that is on the suspended door. Make sure that all necessary tools and the equipment are near at hand and are ready to work. If before you had scarf, unscrew the old mechanism and you can start mounting of the new keeper.
3. Get special purpose tool for bearing and elimination of the mechanism if before you had box lock. As soon as you have all necessary, and all necessary tool will be present, work on extraction will not take a lot of time.
4. Do not worry - if you could dismantle independently the old castle, installation of new will not occupy you many forces. Remember that the lock has to adjoin densely to door and not be unsteady. Check the lock for working capacity at all stages of its installation. And the main thing, you do not hurry, then you will surely cope with task.