The door used most
For many households in the hills, the door from the garage is the one everyone uses every day. It's also the one most often left with nothing but a basic knob lock.
Why it matters
A garage door can be opened with a stolen remote. Once inside the garage, the only thing between someone and your kitchen is that interior door. Adding a deadbolt there is one of the most useful upgrades you can make to a house.
Keypads make sense here
A keypad deadbolt suits the garage door well. No key to carry when your hands are full of groceries, and you can give a code to a dog walker or cleaner and delete it later. Choose one with a mechanical override.
Jobs we arrange in 92809
- Deadbolts on garage-to-house doors
- Keypad deadbolt installation
- Garage side door and pedestrian door locks
- Matching all locks to one key
- Home lockouts
Keep the remote in mind
Don't leave the garage remote clipped in a car parked outside. If a remote goes missing, reset the opener codes and treat the interior door as your main lock.
Families with busy schedules
With school runs, sports practice and work all overlapping, keys go missing constantly in family households. A keypad on the garage-to-house door ends most of those lockouts: everyone knows the code, nobody needs to carry a key, and a babysitter or visiting grandparent can have their own code. If you'd rather keep keys, rekey every exterior lock to a single key and cut enough copies for each person, plus one spare kept with a trusted neighbor.
