By HomeAdvisor Home security systems are only as strong as their weakest link, and if you set up equipment that’s too complicated for household members to use, they are likely to ignore the equipment or work around it. Remember...
By First Time Homeowner Whether you’re a first-time homeowner, or simply facing challenges with maintaining your home, here’s a tip that can help when it comes to lubricating sticky door locks. Stubborn, sticky locks can be aggravating, but using...
By Superpages Interrupting the routine of your daily events to re-key the locks in your home is probably not a welcome task. But there are a number of times where a homeowner who does not stop to at least...
By Dena Potter BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) – After a student gunman killed four of his classmates and his German teacher and then left, Derek O’Dell had to wedge one of his sneakers under the classroom door to keep the...
By Dominic Schwebs The combination lock has been around well over 100 years and is still the number one method of securing a safe door. They are no different from any other ordinary lock in that it has moving...
By Barclay Ballard Generally speaking, biometrics refers to the measure or statistical analysis of a person’s physical or biological characteristics. However, increasingly the term is being defined more narrowly, at least in a business context, to refer to biometric...