The key machine is a marvel of mechanical engineering. This article illustrates how a key machine is made and how it can cut keys accurately to within 1/1000 of an inch.
How Does a Standard Key Machine Work?
How to assess your security, know your enemy and secure the perimeter of your defenses.
Apartment and Condo Door Lock and Security Basics
Haunted or just a hassle? Doors that open and close by themselves can be annoying and sometimes dangerous. There is an easy solution that even the most green novice can handle.
How to Keep Doors From Closing by Themselves
One day, your sliding glass door will need repair as it gets harder and harder to open. In this article, you will find instructions on how to replace patio door rollers.
How to Repair or Replace Sliding Glass Door Rollers
Replacing and updating your trim and baseboards is quick and easy to do.
How to Quickly Update Your Door Trim and Baseboards
Glass and aluminum narrow stile doors offer unique challenges when retro-fitting electric locking hardware. In this installment, we look at some of the choices available for single doors equipped with a flip-up deadbolt, like the Adams Rite MS1850.
A Guide to Electric Locking for Narrow Stile Aluminum Storefront Doors
The numbers and letters on the head of your key always mean something. Here is a brief guide to the most common meanings of the numbers and codes.
What Do the Numbers on My Key Mean?
Pairs of aluminum storefront doors present unique challenges when it's time to retrofit them with electric locking hardware for access control.
A Guide to Electric Locking for Pairs of Aluminum Storefront Doors
DIY guide to changing your own locks, including an explanation of common lock types and the basics of how to replace cylinders and get new keys.
How to Change Your Lock Cylinder
Why we opted for a window roller blind for our French doors, rather than a proper full length door blind, to block out the evening sun; and a basic step-by-step guide to the slightly unconventionally way I fitted it, and why I fitted it that way.
Fitting a Window Roller Blind to French Doors
The theory and practice of door closer adjustment, with steps and detailed instructions to adjust the swing of your hydraulic door closer.
How to Adjust Your Door Closer
If you want to install a screen door, here is a basic layout of the process from start to finish.
How to Install a Screen Door
You can re-screen that old, broken window screen. It's so easy, and the results look fantastic!
How to Re-Screen an Old, Broken Screen
If your front door is faded and outdated or just plain ugly, you can use these easy ideas to completely change its appearance.
6 Simple Ways to Dress Up Your Front Door
A friend's daughter whose wedding I sewed and organized a few years ago came over last night with her 'Hubby' saying that the deal on the house they had bid on had been accepted. They asked me to help with window treatments.
Common Drapery Terminology: Basic Window Treatments Explained
Removing old seized screws from door hinges.
How to Remove Stuck Screws From a Door Hinge