Poll: Does your front door auto lock when you shut it from the outside? Poll

Does your front door lock when you close it?

  • Yes, it auto-locks and you need a key to get back in.

    Votes: 33 35.5%

  • No, it can be opened without a key unless I lock it manually.

    Votes: 60 64.5%
  • Total voters
    93

jaybee

jaybee

jaybee

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I don't know how to add a poll and think mods may have to add one, but I'd like to know the percentage of people that have front doors that you can leave unlocked so that you can just walk up to them and let yourself in without a key.
i.e.

Option 1: Yes, if my front door blows shut in the wind I become locked out, it locks at least partially or has a split handle to prevent access externally EVER, unless you have a key. i.e. Split spindle, or night latch / slam shut type which auto latches.

Option 2: My front door can be left in a state where it is left unlocked externally and you can open it without a key. i.e. lever handle, uPVC like a back patio door which can be left unlocked.
 
We have to lock ours, but my parents’ locked automatically. I don’t think theirs was very safe as it’s a single point lock whereas my current one connects to the door frame in at least 3 places.
 
Our very front/porch door is upvc multi point door that you have to manually lock, but we have another door behind which would have been the original front door and that does automatically lock via a Yale lock.

We tend to lock the front/porch door anyway just as a precaution. We’ve had random delivery drivers open the door and let themselves in to leave parcels, which I’m not a fan of.
 
Manual lock as well, don't have one of those ones from the 70s that locks you out by mistake.
 
Standard multi point lock in the front, automatic locking would be a right PITA.

Someone I know put in a UPVC door that locked automatically, had a lock smith out 3 times in the first year and were locked out more times than that. Twice when taking rubbish out and the door blew shut, no phone or coat and it was winter. I guess it worked…!
 
Yes, found out the hard way my new house has a front door that when shut, can't be opened from the outside without the key! It looks like a normal upvc euro, multiple point locking door, so not actually sure how it works. Can't pull the handle down from the outside even if unlocked, but you can from the inside. Hope it doesn't change when I get around to changing the euro cylinder for an anti-snap one once the trademen are all finished.
 
If it's the type with a thumb lock on the inside, aren't those generally bad as they can be (relatively) easily broken into, I.e. burgler just has to turn it from the outside via broken window for example.
 
I thought all standard upvc multi point locking doors had the handle that disengaged unless using a key.

I can close mine behind me but I can't then open it without the key. But this doesn't engage the multi point locking system, so the door could probably be brute forced open. I have to pull the handle up to engage the multi point locks and then turn the key to lock them in place.
 
Semple said:
I thought all standard upvc multi point locking doors had the handle that disengaged unless using a key.

I can close mine behind me but I can't then open it without the key. But this doesn't engage the multi point locking system, so the door could probably be brute forced open. I have to pull the handle up to engage the multi point locks and then turn the key to lock them in place.
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Nope, its a choice that you can spec when ordering the door. In my experience, most UPVC doors don't have it.
 
Our front door had a Yale lock and normal key lock.

After accidentally locking myself out I was shocked how easily the locksmith opened the offending Yale lock. (1min and he was in with no noise or damage) I took the insides out of the Yale lock and we now only use the mortice lock.
 
Current house does not lock automatically but our previous house did.

I never liked it automatically locking and I did it a few times by accident so I ended up leaving the back doors unlocked most of the time just in case.
 
Autolock with a key safe outside. Honestly, for £20 I get security and peace of mind (I can't lock myself out). Seems a no-brainer to me.
 
jaybee said:
Option 1: Yes, if my front door blows shut in the wind I become locked out, it locks at least partially or has a split handle to prevent access externally EVER, unless you have a key. i.e. Split spindle, or night latch / slam shut type which auto latches.
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This, I find it weird people dont have slam latches :D
 
I didn't know anyone in the UK had doors you had to lock manually. I thought it was an American thing or a TV thing, you always see them walk up and just open front doors without a key.

I've locked myself out precisely once, and learned my ****ing lesson :D
 
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