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A home inspector completed an inspection of a resale home on behalf of the new buyers and found a problem with a double door lock. He suggested the buyers contact a handyman to repair it. On a set of exterior double doors, you will have a stationary door that secures to the top jamb and the threshold with a set of sliding bolts or pins that sink into the opening preventing the door from operating. The swinging door latches into the stationary door and locks into it. If the stationary door has problems with the bolts that secure it to the frame, then the swinging door has little chance of locking and securing the opening.
Many of these problems deal with the fact that the sliding bolts may not be fully engaged into the holes that receive them. This may be for many reasons but repairing them shouldn't be very difficult. Sometimes the hardware will be loose and it is a matter of tightening up the sliding bolts and making it so that the bolts actually go into the holes again. In other cases the easiest thing to do is to ream out the holes slightly larger so that the bolts can engage the holes and securely lock the door. You can also clean the hardware and lubricate it so that it slides easily.
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