Sliding Glass Door Lock Installation Tools

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Daniel on behalf of Expert Village. In this clip, we're going to be talking about the tools that are required in order to install a sliding glass door lock. Most of you glass sliding doors, if not all of them, are going to be made of aluminum. However, you'll find a few of the doors like the Pella that are made out of nylon plastic. For all those, you want to use just a standard drill to drill through those. This is a 3/8 inch chuck. You won't need to go any larger than that. If you have a larger one, it won't hurt, but you are trying to get into a small space on the side of the door so the smaller the drill the better. You'll want 1/8 inch drill bit. Some locks may use a larger drill bit, but you'll just need to check on the packaging; most of them use 1/8 inch. You'll want a standard tape measure; any tape measure will do to measure the holes. A punch is really handy to punch the holes before you start drilling, so that your drill bit don't wander. The only other 2 tools that are going to be necessary, of course, are a hammer and a screw driver to install it."