The Anonymous Widower

A Crap Cheap Lock

My second bedroom was fitted with a lock by Gerry, but I never received the keys when I bought the house.

So as I might be renting the room out during the Olympics, I felt it might not be a bad idea fit a new lock.  I easily removed the faceplace from the lock to get at the screws that held it into the door and managed to price the lock from the door without much effort.

But when I came to fit the new lock, that I’d bought for ten pounds or so, I couldn’t get the faceplate off, as when it had been assembled one of the screwed had been jammed in at an angle. in the end I completely stripped the cross head of the strew, due to the large amount of plastic in whatever metal it was.

A Cheap Crap Lock

So as the picture shows, I will now have to buy a new lock again, just because the one I bought was so crap. The faceplate bent, whilst I was seeing if I could use a bit of brute force and ignorance to free the screw.

January 31, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | World | Building, My House