2 apartment keys are the same...how is that possible?

Jul 08, 2009 by Jeff | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

 I compared the keys with four of my friends and mine matched one of them! We tangible in different buildings ... How is that possible? Is there a standard Kwikset key and lock that is commonly owned euphemistic to reduce costs if people lose the key?

 I installed many locks and some of my former brothel are used ... It would be impossible to find someone with the key ...

Where do you get a rekey kit?

Dec 20, 2009 by B L | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

 I sine qua non to get a kit to rekey a Kwikset doorknob. I needfulness something cheap so I can learn to rekey locks for my job. Not the great $100+ just something central with all the pins for a standard doorknob. Does anybody be informed of a store where I can find it??

 Severely Depot sells a re key kit for well-grounded under $10.00. Just ask someone in the Armaments Dept. to assist you...You might even get propitious by getting tutored on how to effect your task. Just depends on the sales associate & their savvy...Anyways, best of good fortune to ya!!!

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KWIKSET ULTRAMAX 6 pin cylinder picked SPP

KWIKSET ULTRAMAX 6 pin cylinder picked SPP see www.kwikset.com for specs on the ultramax as stated,this cylinder meets the highest ANSI BHMA Abode ...

Kwikset 98001-094 Signatures Arlington SmartKey Handle set with ...

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I bought the Arlington handle with key Clever single cylinder for a new society. Two days later, the key industry declined in the cylinder that I was trying to cage the door to hand down. I returned the game to have faith and exchanged for the same handle only one to have a cavity 3 days later the advance release of exasperating when the door on my delivery.I did not even know the function of forming key source on the cylinder, and after I successfully exchanged retyped the handle on the door of garage access to mix the new deadbolt key (rather than recapture the deadbolt door, lest I give it a justifiable decrease in the fee does, where he ended up doing anyway).

Now I'm stuck with either the handle because of its deviation greater than average (11 ") between the box of standard hardware and the small apartment I drilled to sound pathetic to use it in my metal door (the bolt would go Mainly in), or the content of the cell background, sanding, and repainting the door. In the box there is a being honest with a copy urging you to call their foothills solidus before returning the item. Supplement to not even go to Kwikset, he goes to another black coal and a subsidiary called Decker Amount Pfister makes plumbing fixtures.Some research has led to the other box (answer) percent, which has just declared that due to contaminated Tome call all representatives were knocking and asked that I call again and hung up....

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Kwikset Launches National ''LiveSmart'' Sweepstakes

LAKE FOREST, CA -- Kwikset® has launched of the resident "LiveSmart" Sweepstakes, which aims to show parents and homeowners how easily understood and mild, "perceptive" household safe keeping can be. The sweepstakes will run through Nov. 1, 2010, and you can note to win at www.KwiksetLiveSmart.com

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