Okay so a question (pics will be posted tomorrow after being taken in daylight!)
I am in the process of moving house.
We have five uPVC multi-point locking external doors.
All of these doors have high-security ABS locks on them.
Three of the Eurostyle cylinders are easy to remove - the retaining screw is accessible at the side of the doors and I've removed the locks to measure the internal and external dimensions from the centre hole to ensure I get suitable replacements (the locks are all 'keyed-alike' and my son and my daughter also have the same locks meaning only one set of keys is needed).
Obviously, these five locks need replacing as I'm not giving the new owners the code to enable them to order additional keys giving them access to our new house or those of my children!
Anyhoo, TWO of the doors present more of a challenge.
One is a bog-standard inward-opening external door but the retaining screw is not visible at all (for ease of identification, it will be referred to as the 'Rear Door').
The other door is one of an outward-opening pair of half doors on the porch (looking from inside, the left-hand door - the one that is opened first - has an easily accessible retaining screw, the right-hand door is the problem door). This will be referred to as the 'Porch Door'. I gather that the second door of the pair to open is referred to as the 'slave'. On some of these doors there is a mullion that needs to be removed to reveal the lock retaining screw - but as far as I can tell there isn't a removable mullion.
I've taken off the catch plate/striker plate (not sure of the correct term) from the right-hand porch door, thinking that the retaining screw for the cylinder was behind that - but nope! There is nothing but solid plastic behind and no 'hole' for a retaing screw.
The porch doors were put in about 11 years ago and wanting higher security than the normal crappy Eurostyle cylinders, we bought these high-security locks and gave them to the company to fit during manufacture. Now I can't see how to change it over.
The rear door lock I seem to remember I replaced, but looking at it now, some 11 years later - I can't see how I did it.
So, my question is, how to access the retaining screw to swap these locks over when we move.
My guess (and it is only a guess mind), is that the retaining screws are revealed by taking out the glazing unit and going from "inside the frame of the door" as it were.
Is this correct? Otherwise, it seems like a major job to disassemble the whole door or locking mechanism to get at this screw.
Either way, it is a bloody stupid design for both of these doors turning a simple 2-minute job into something far more involved and time consuming.
Your help and advice would be very much appreciated!
XRD
I am in the process of moving house.
We have five uPVC multi-point locking external doors.
All of these doors have high-security ABS locks on them.
Three of the Eurostyle cylinders are easy to remove - the retaining screw is accessible at the side of the doors and I've removed the locks to measure the internal and external dimensions from the centre hole to ensure I get suitable replacements (the locks are all 'keyed-alike' and my son and my daughter also have the same locks meaning only one set of keys is needed).
Obviously, these five locks need replacing as I'm not giving the new owners the code to enable them to order additional keys giving them access to our new house or those of my children!
Anyhoo, TWO of the doors present more of a challenge.
One is a bog-standard inward-opening external door but the retaining screw is not visible at all (for ease of identification, it will be referred to as the 'Rear Door').
The other door is one of an outward-opening pair of half doors on the porch (looking from inside, the left-hand door - the one that is opened first - has an easily accessible retaining screw, the right-hand door is the problem door). This will be referred to as the 'Porch Door'. I gather that the second door of the pair to open is referred to as the 'slave'. On some of these doors there is a mullion that needs to be removed to reveal the lock retaining screw - but as far as I can tell there isn't a removable mullion.
I've taken off the catch plate/striker plate (not sure of the correct term) from the right-hand porch door, thinking that the retaining screw for the cylinder was behind that - but nope! There is nothing but solid plastic behind and no 'hole' for a retaing screw.
The porch doors were put in about 11 years ago and wanting higher security than the normal crappy Eurostyle cylinders, we bought these high-security locks and gave them to the company to fit during manufacture. Now I can't see how to change it over.
The rear door lock I seem to remember I replaced, but looking at it now, some 11 years later - I can't see how I did it.
So, my question is, how to access the retaining screw to swap these locks over when we move.
My guess (and it is only a guess mind), is that the retaining screws are revealed by taking out the glazing unit and going from "inside the frame of the door" as it were.
Is this correct? Otherwise, it seems like a major job to disassemble the whole door or locking mechanism to get at this screw.
Either way, it is a bloody stupid design for both of these doors turning a simple 2-minute job into something far more involved and time consuming.
Your help and advice would be very much appreciated!
XRD
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