My Door Knob Unlocks Itself! Testing The Kwikset & Callin Lock For Integrity

If your house doors have Kwikset or Callin locks, do know that, over time, the return springs break. Of course, if you turn your knob it will spring back into place because the latch spring is activating; but it will be a weak return and anybody will be able to open your door even if you lock it. If you suspect that your house lock is unlocking itself, or becoming unlocked when it is locked, here is a simple test you can conduct.

1. Lock the knob or lever.
2. From the outside, try to open the lever or lock by turning it hard and quickly form left to right about ten or twenty times. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
3. If the return spring is broken, the lock will unlock itself, allowing you to enter.

The danger in this is that your lock will be locked when you lock it, and you will think you are safe; but quick jiggles will unlock it from the outside. Any stranger who discovers this will have easy access to your home and you will never know it.

Just take your key down to the hardware store, ask the man in the lock department to provide you with another lock and ask him to key the lock up to your old key.While you are there, ask him to show you how to remove and install the new lock.