How To Drill A Door Lock

How to drill different cylinder locks including very poor footage of one being drilled.

How to drill a door lock.

Tape the lock template to the door positioned so that it is square or. 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. Certain locks are not going to open as easily as others even with drilling. When a replacement lock can be found then the lock can be drilled open.

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. I recently bought a house my wife thought it would be a good idea to shut the door to one of the rooms. 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. Exterior locksets commonly have a 2 and 3 4 inch backset.

This room happened to have a key ed lock on it that. To get started hammer a center punch into a point just above the keyhole and take it out. Look into keyed entry door knobs also called privacy knobs portable door locks or top of door locks. This video is due to a request from my previous post on how to replace a mailbox lock.

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. Understand the lock well enough to drill it properly. Most interior locksets have a 2 and 3 8 inch backset. That is unless you want to spend 150 callin.

To know where to drill this hole from the edge of the door you need to know the backset of the lockset. In this video i show you how to drill out a deadbolt in less than 2 minutes.