How To Drill A Door Lock

Drilling a door lock opening in a wooden door requires a hole saw and a spade bit both of which are used with a drill.

How to drill a door lock.

Before you attempt to drill a lock keep in mind that you won t be able to drill locks that have a center pin made of steel or a ball bearing in the middle pin. That is unless you want to spend 150 callin. To get started hammer a center punch into a point just above the keyhole and take it out. Certain locks are not going to open as easily as others even with drilling.

The backset is the distance from the edge of the door to the center of the giant hole you drill in the face of the door. Look into keyed entry door knobs also called privacy knobs portable door locks or top of door locks. To know where to drill this hole from the edge of the door you need to know the backset of the lockset. Then using an 1 8 inch drill bit slowly drill through the point you made with the center punch.

Drilling without replacing the hardware will result in an unacceptable gap in home security. Understand the lock well enough to drill it properly. How to drill different cylinder locks including very poor footage of one being drilled. There were many who requested this video due to not having access to t.

I recently bought a house my wife thought it would be a good idea to shut the door to one of the rooms. When a replacement lock can be found then the lock can be drilled open. In this video i show you how to drill out a deadbolt in less than 2 minutes. This video is due to a request from my previous post on how to replace a mailbox lock.

Exterior locksets commonly have a 2 and 3 4 inch backset. If you re in a situation where you cannot or do not want to use a drill to install your lock there are a couple ways of installing an interior door lock without a drill.