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Nobody can tell you how many copies of your new front door key exist. Previous owners, their kids, a contractor, a dog walker, a realtor lockbox — the honest answer is always "unknown," and that uncertainty is the entire argument for rekeying on move-in day.
Read the guideNobody can tell you how many copies of your new front door key exist. Previous owners, their kids, a contractor, a dog walker, a realtor lockbox — the honest answer is always "unknown," and that uncertainty is the entire argument for rekeying on move-in day.
Read the guideMail theft is identity theft with extra steps, and the hardware standing between the two is often a worn cam lock that a determined person can defeat with a screwdriver. Replacing it is quick, inexpensive, and consistently underrated.
Read the guideFire protection and burglary protection are different engineering problems, and the cheap safes at big-box stores tend to be mediocre at both. Deciding which threat you are actually addressing is the whole decision.
Read the guideWhen a relationship or a roommate arrangement ends, the lock on the front door quietly becomes the most important object in the house. This is one of the few security decisions where the emotional answer and the technical answer point the same direction: change it, and change it soon.
Read the guideThe side gate is the most neglected lock on most properties and the most useful one to an intruder, because everything behind it happens out of sight from the street. Gate hardware also lives outdoors, which means it fails faster than anything on the house.
Read the guideMost homes are not defeated by clever attacks. They are defeated by a side gate nobody locks, a sliding door with a factory latch, and a deadbolt held on by three-quarter-inch screws that pull straight out of soft pine.
Read the guideNobody can tell you how many copies of your new front door key exist. Previous owners, their kids, a contractor, a dog walker, a realtor lockbox — the honest answer is always "unknown," and that uncertainty is the entire argument for rekeying on move-in day.
Read the guideThe side gate is the most neglected lock on most properties and the most useful one to an intruder, because everything behind it happens out of sight from the street. Gate hardware also lives outdoors, which means it fails faster than anything on the house.
Read the guideAn empty house broadcasts. Packages stacking up, a dark window at the same hour every night, a full mailbox — the signals that matter are the boring ones, and most of them can be handled in the week before you leave.
Read the guideMail theft is identity theft with extra steps, and the hardware standing between the two is often a worn cam lock that a determined person can defeat with a screwdriver. Replacing it is quick, inexpensive, and consistently underrated.
Read the guideWhen a relationship or a roommate arrangement ends, the lock on the front door quietly becomes the most important object in the house. This is one of the few security decisions where the emotional answer and the technical answer point the same direction: change it, and change it soon.
Read the guideMost homes are not defeated by clever attacks. They are defeated by a side gate nobody locks, a sliding door with a factory latch, and a deadbolt held on by three-quarter-inch screws that pull straight out of soft pine.
Read the guideWhen a relationship or a roommate arrangement ends, the lock on the front door quietly becomes the most important object in the house. This is one of the few security decisions where the emotional answer and the technical answer point the same direction: change it, and change it soon.
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