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 the wrong method to unstick...
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 rekey locks in the home...
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 attacker from returning to kill...
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 parts and should be serviced...
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 security. Although passwords can be...
By Juan Jimenez In a prior life, when I worked on aircraft, we used to say that the maintenance manuals were written in blood. In my opinion, this applies to many building codes as well. Building codes reflect decades of experience and are written...