[Shop-talk] Changing a lockset without the key

[Jim Franklin]

Typically the lockset comes unscrewed from the inside. Unless it has tamper-resistant screw heads like the toilet stalls in a school, this is the way its done. 

jim

> On Aug 27, 2018, at 1:07 PM, Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Night a new house. Foreclosure.
> 
> I'm sure this is the first of a bazillion questions (the fridge also is not responding to Google...or maybe I'm not).
> 
> There are several locked deadbolt (both sides) doors that everyone claims to not have keys for.
> 
> Is it as simple as disassembling the lockset until I can remove and replace it, or they've thought of that and I've got to get the door out first?
> 
> Trying to work though that initial feeling of being incredibly overwhelmed,
> 
> Scott
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