I found a maintenance man special the other day. It's been updated to a new paddle which was professionally installed the correct way. It's amazing that the old one even worked for 20 years 😆
Replaced maintenance man crap on underground parking garage stairwell doors. I installed Grade 1 passage levers in place of the handyman's hardware store crap.
Contractor installed a half a dozen of these Yale pieces of shit on a new construction. 25 years ago Yale was one of the best, nowadays it's overpriced cheaply made junk. Anyways, it's all master keyed now.
Replaced a failing AlarmLock DL1200. Also replaced the General brand deadlatch and paddle with an AdamsRite 4900 latch and Universal Paddle.
That thing was completely fucked. All new now.
Replaced single cylinder with double cylinder deadbolt + thick door kit. Soundproof studio door.
Not a fire exit, space was divided for two different tenants
Replaced some failed Yale privacy levers. Yale products have declined badly over the years. Super sh!ty quality. I replace at least 3 of these a week and it's been that way for a few years. It's what the customer wants, it's what they get. At least I'm making a ton of money from it... 🤷♂️
I installed a dozen of these AlarmLock Trilogy DL2700 locks over 6 locations with Medeco X4 small format interchangeable cores.
They were locking down the restrooms because they've had the urinal and toilet plumbing stolen several times. Now an employee must let the customer into the restroom. Crazy expensive but I guess it's cheaper than repetitive calls to the plumber.
All of the locations were identical. Remove push/pull plates and fresh install Trilogy with Medeco X4 SFIC Cores on 2 doors. Each location took about 2.5 hours and invoiced for $2141.25
Found a knock-off Multl-t-lock cylinder on a storefront. Whomever installed it left it loose AF.
I twisted it out (with no damage to the set screw) and replaced it with an SC1 cylinder keyed to the management company's vacancy master key.
Little project.
The contractor had one about 10% installed then got stupid (and scared)... Not only did I get to sell Medeco X4 to the customer, but charged the contractor a fuck-ton to fix his mistake and finish installing.
Lock wouldn't lock from either side of the door. Found Stanley type sliding glass doors. These have a top rod and bolt the frequently slip the bolt guide and this causes a jam. Sometimes you can remove the top guide and adjust the bolt that's on the threaded stock, but sometimes it's so severe you pull the lock from the door and straighten everything out by hand.
This one, the threaded rod was crooked as a dog's hind leg and the apparatus between the rod and the mortise body was badly bent. Pulled it from the top of the door and got it straightened out and replaced. All adjusted and works like new.
Whomever was in this last, lost an allen head screw for the top guide and stuck a self tapper in there. Although it wouldn't surprise me if the original installer did it. It looked like it had been there for a while and this store isn't that old.
After getting it fixed and function checked (25 times, minimum) I powered up the door to watch it cycle a few times. Of course this is when every grandmother and soccer mom in town want to go in or out. Took me 5 minutes waiting for it to cycle the first time hahaha
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