Can you still lock the door? My sliding door has one of those latches that goes around the outside, not an inside latch.
1584647
I never set mine up that way. I always put in in for a few hrs, then take it out. But I do not think my door would latch either because of how it is made.
1101178
Thank you for your question! This product does come with a rotary lock attachment so that you can lock your sliding door when not in use.
298065
You can only lock it from the outside with the key, but that defeats the purpose of the digital lock doesn't it. You have to turn the lock before you go out, or open the door and turn it. I can only guess that there is alarm system involved here.
643537
We mounted ours on the back side of the door not the side that we use all the time. This allows us to still lock the door as usual. We also secured the pet door & back sliding door so they cannot be moved.
891641
It says you can buy a latch for thicker door jams but I can't find it anywhere. Ours are thick too so we actually removed the pin from the door but left the knob and just latch it where the pin would go. I haven't tried it yet but I thought of maybe buying a command hook to put in the door jam to latch it to.
1260807
I never opened the lock from the inside of thats what you mean. Asthetics are ok. Nothing to write home about. No, it cannot be set up to be open sometimes. Its is locked all the time. I dont know if it can be used outside. Both mine are inside.
1055864
The post portion of the lock must be installed on the gate on the outward swinging side. It might be strange for that to be on the outside, but you can do it because once it is locked, you need a key to unlock it from either side.t There is no way to unlock it without a key.
2245060
No it physically blocks the door from opening. Actually someone on the outside could lock you in. Do you have a good deadbolt? The hardest part is drilling the holes, but with the right tools it's doable.
863612
No. Its not necessarily a lock. Its a piece of plastic that slides to the middle to stop the door from opening. There is a (maybe) 6 inches piece of plastic that hangs down on one side to make it easier to slide it. Depending on how tall you are if you could reach close to the top to slide it then you will be fine.
1680775
With the addalock in place you cant open the door from outside when i put the addalock in place and locked in from the inside my brother used his key unlocked the door but he still couldnt get in. Hope it gives you some insight !
1928634
You mean without another door latch? I suppose but you would have to manually lock it each time to keep door closed. It's just a deadbolt.
825473
Yes. Push slider on button towards top and it locks. You can leave it as long as you like. Works great.
123913
Yes, definitely. Your only concern will be how to keep the sliding door you use "secure" when you are not at home. You can put a 1-1/2" dowel in the track, or even some of those sliding door locks from the hardware store, BUT if it is a wide pet panel, a thief an remove the panel and slip in. Fortunately mine is in a locked backyard, but we're working on that problem for my daughter's place, as her slider is more accessible to public.
790117
Although the intent is to screw it in with 3 or 4 screws and use the lock provided, we have not done that. We use a bar in the sliding door track to "lock" the door if we want to leave the pet door in place over night. It is easy to remove it since the spring loaded top segment holds it securely in, but can be lifted out easily if we want to be gone for a few days.
1926405
No, you can't lock your patio door but we put a board down to prevent the sliding glass door from being opened from the outside. It does come with a cover to close the doggie door if you want to prevent your pets from coming in/out. I will say that the doggie door looks very nice and is much better than what we had before we bought this one. Hope this helps
1482749
We used our dog door in a slide door that was originally narrow, so we didn't set up ours to have the latch, because we couldn't use what was left of the doorway for us anyway. Instead we just braced the slide door against the dog door & made it very secure that way. There are instructions of how to set up the original latch to the side of the dog door, so you can use what is left of doorway for your own entry & exit, also.
863613
No. But! If the door is large enough you can put one facing out and one facing in and whether you are out or in; you could slide that particular lock over. I found that this lock did not work well for us. I kept forgetting it was there and eventually broke it. But found nothing wrong with the lock itself.