How To Drill A Door Lock

Most interior locksets have a 2 and 3 8 inch backset.

How to drill a door lock.

If you re in a situation where you cannot or do not want to use a drill to install your lock there are a couple ways of installing an interior door lock without a drill. This room happened to have a key ed lock on it that. Before you attempt to drill a lock keep in mind that you won t be able to drill locks that have a center pin made of steel or a ball bearing in the middle pin. This video is due to a request from my previous post on how to replace a mailbox lock.

That is unless you want to spend 150 callin. Drilling a door lock opening in a wooden door requires a hole saw and a spade bit both of which are used with a drill. There were many who requested this video due to not having access to t. Look into keyed entry door knobs also called privacy knobs portable door locks or top of door locks.

Certain locks are not going to open as easily as others even with drilling. Then using an 1 8 inch drill bit slowly drill through the point you made with the center punch. I recently bought a house my wife thought it would be a good idea to shut the door to one of the rooms. The backset is the distance from the edge of the door to the center of the giant hole you drill in the face of the door.

To know where to drill this hole from the edge of the door you need to know the backset of the lockset. Understand the lock well enough to drill it properly. Tape the lock template to the door positioned so that it is square or. In this video i show you how to drill out a deadbolt in less than 2 minutes.

How to drill different cylinder locks including very poor footage of one being drilled. Exterior locksets commonly have a 2 and 3 4 inch backset.