How to Change a Cylinder lock from a door

In apartments, the manager has to change the front door keys when tenants move out or move in.

Do you know how hard it is?

Today, I'll write about how to change a cylinder lock.

Cylinder on a door

To change the key, managers have to change a cylinder from a front door lock.
Let's see how to change a cylinder.

In Japan, there are many types of lock.
This time, I'll show the typical type of lock.

1. Take out a thumbturn cover

The interior piece that you operate to lock or unlock is called "thumbturn".
First, take out the cover of thumbturn.
You can use a flathead screwdriver.

2. Take out the cylinder

After removing the cover, you can see the plate and screws.

Remove the screws with the screwdriver.

You can remove the plate and the cylinder from the door at same time.

3. Install a new cylinder

After removing the plate and the cylinder, put the new cylinder into the door hole.
You can fix the cylinder with fastening screws from the thumbturn plate.

The person who often do this job can finish this around 10 minutes.
Otherwise it takes 20 or 30 minutes or more.
Most of the managers aren't getting used to this job.

If you reduce to changing cylinders, you can concentrate more important job.

These days, there are some smart locks that is easy to re-keying.

Also we have the re-keyable product.

Please check this page.

Thank you for reading this article.

See you next time!

Comments

What do you do when you lose your key?

People sometimes lose his key. We are human, so these incidents are inevitable. What do you do when you lose your key? There are three ways to deal with this issues. Make spare keys Change the cylinder Change the key pattern without changing the cylinder 1. Make spare keys This is the most popular way to deal with losing the keys. In the U.S. or in Japan, there are many lock smiths to make spare keys. In the U.S. some hardware stores can make spare keys with a key copy machine. For instance, to make a spare key costs only a dollar. But there are problems with this. Making a spare key makes tolerance bigger. If you make a spare key from another spare key, often the new spare key doesn't work. Also that is not secure. The other person who is not your family may pick up your key and enter your house. I recommend you to change the cylinder when you lose the key. 2. Change the cylinder This is also the popular. I wrote this article

Thank you : NAA 2018 Apartmentalize

We exhibit in the NAA show, Apartmentalize 2018. The event was great success and of course many apartment owners and managers arrived at our booth. Thank you for coming to our booth. We found that many people have problems about the key management and want to solve that problem. Our mission is to solve that problems and to make additional value to their apartments. We will continue to develop our smart lock. We believe that will lead to improve the revenue for management companies.

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