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Summary: Tips for rekeying the locks in your home and learn how to place key covers when replacing a door lock in this free home security video from a professional handyman.
Mark Sullivan has been a handyman for over twenty years. He has professionally worked on several projects, including all facets of commercial, apartment, and office building...read more
"Today we're going to show you how to change the lock on your commercial steel door. The next thing we need to do, is that I've got to give seven, or I've I got to give several keys out. So what we're going to do is we're going to put these identifying little covers on the keys. But the only problem is these don't quite fit. So it looks I need to grind off, just a little bit off of each of these keys. So how we're going to do that is, I'm going to take a pair of pliers and the body grinder. And I'm going to take the body grinder, now this is a dangerous tool. This is powerful, it's got a disc that spins really fast on here, and you need to grip it firmly. And what I'm going to do is basically grind off a little bit off of the key, like this. Okay, so now that we've ground off a little bit off that we're going to see if this little key cover will fit on here now. Let's see. No, I think, well maybe. Yeah that looks like that?ll work. And so now we have, that's what we're going to do to the other keys also. And now, if you follow these simple steps you too will be able to change out your door lock on your commercial door, thanks to Expert Village."