{"id":405,"date":"2013-12-01T00:39:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T19:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaterslocksmith.com\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2013-12-01T00:39:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T19:39:20","slug":"saving-a-door-and-maybe-a-marriage-with-wood-plugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gaterslocksmith.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/01\/saving-a-door-and-maybe-a-marriage-with-wood-plugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving a Door (and maybe a marriage) with Wood Plugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received a call from a woman who was disappointed with her husband. She had given him the task of replacing the front door hardware. The old locks (although I did not see them) could not have worked very well. The original lock installer did not bore the lock-set holes correctly. The woman I talked too said her husband could not install the new locks and all I needed to was to come out to the house and screw the new locks into the door.<\/p>\n

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When I arrived on the job site I inspected the locks. Before I started I could see the deadbolt could not cover the locks mounting hole. I thought maybe I could just re-bore the mounting holes, but they were so far off they would never be covered up with the new hardware.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I called the customer and told her no one could install locks in her door because the holes were so erroneously bored in the wrong place. I rescheduled the job to come out and spend about four hours plugging the door and re-boring the plugs for the new locks. When I was finished the only thing needed was fresh paint.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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