Schlage Plymouth Keypad Deadlock
Okay, so while this is kind of an oddball product to recommend, I have to gush about the sheer freedom and joy a keypad house lock can bring to your life. Imagine the following scenarios:
• You’re trying to warm up/cool down your car, but you realize you left something in the house, and now you have to turn off the engine to get back inside
• You need to let someone inside your house while you’re not home, but you’d prefer not to give them a key
• Your impish toddler has shut and locked the front door while you went out to get the paper. In your nightgown. Without a bra.
We had this keypad installed when we had our front entry rebuilt last year, and next to the ice dispenser in the new fridge I swear it’s one of my favorite aspects of the remodel. You don’t need to carry a housekey, you never run the risk of being locked out of your house, and you can create a temporary code for anyone who needs access. So handy! I can’t comment on the ease of installation because we didn’t do it ourselves, but the company claims it takes less than 30 minutes.
Ballpark price: $185 on Amazon
Link: Schlage Plymouth Keypad Deadlock
Posted: June 4th, 2008 under House & home, Personally recommended by Linda.
Comments: 14
Comments
Comment from April
Time: June 4, 2008, 9:11 pm
Man, just a few months ago when we changed our condo locks I saw this at Home Depot and pestered Hubs to get that instead of the standard locks… he shot me down, saying “When would we EVER use that?” When WOULDN’T we use that, is what I want to know. We had a keypad lock on our sorority door and it was the awesomest thing ever.
Comment from Ashley
Time: June 5, 2008, 9:47 pm
Is it electronic? Does it take batteries? If it does what happens when they run out? Can it take different codes? I am intrigued.
Comment from Ashley
Time: June 5, 2008, 10:16 pm
Oh der I see a key slot there.
Comment from HollowSquirrel
Time: June 6, 2008, 10:29 am
Oooh Linda, I’m so excited. that’s awesome.
Comment from Karen
Time: July 17, 2008, 1:57 pm
Hi…I’m a new Mom and have two of these installed in my house…they are great! To answer Ashley’s questions a) yes they are electronic b) they require a 9 Volt battery and they estimate a 3 year battery life c) you can program up to 19 different 4-digit codes…they are very easy to add and delete
Comment from Karen
Time: July 17, 2008, 1:58 pm
I forgot to mention that there it flashes when the battery runs low and you can still use a key if the battery goes dead.
Comment from Jan
Time: October 23, 2008, 11:47 am
I just had one installed on my back door.
I’ve lived in this house less than a year and during remodeling,
everyone and his brother had a key.
I was always forgetting to unlock the lock when I ran out to get something out of the car and having to ring the door bell to get someone to come and let me back in.
I love this lock so much that I’m going to have one put on the front
door.
This is the greatest invention since air-conditioning.
Comment from Mollie - Photostock Expert
Time: December 10, 2008, 4:07 am
hi! i’m not interested in house keeping or other things like this and can’t comment on this lock… but my sister has day of marriage soon and she’s keen on different things like the ones you are writing about, so i decided to make a collection of useful links for him. so you are going to be number one in the list)))
Comment from Abbie - Familienrecht Rechtsanwalt Stuttgart
Time: December 26, 2008, 4:28 am
))) this is the most unusual note of the day! really i haven’t read about locks! i think it’s really trustworthy! if will need one i will chose this one!
Comment from Daisy
Time: January 21, 2009, 2:24 am
yeah they write so little about household utilities of that kind in ordinary blogs… if you need more of the kind you should surf some specialised sites for housebuilders i suppose!
Comment from Eloise
Time: February 10, 2009, 1:43 am
I’d like to know more about this key. But you know I’m afraid of things like this. It seems to me that it can confuse an old man, like me. But I had one unpleasant example when my grandson opened the door behind me.
Comment from Amelie - Cheap Airline Tickets
Time: March 16, 2009, 4:33 am
But not all the locks ar the same, and this note is quite about the different one…Ithink that this lock is so unusual that it will take many efforts and time from a thief in a case of a robbery! and that a grand plus!
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Comment from Martin - Security.
Time: April 19, 2009, 3:19 am
No doubt about it, keyless entry locks are a boon. Even if you get the key returned when you loan one out, you can never be sure it hasn’t been copied. With keyless locks installed you haven’t that worry.
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