Many of the deadbolt locks tested by Consumer Reports lack the level of protection you might want or expect. In our labs, a few well-placed kicks or a couple of minutes under assault from a ...
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) establishes three grades for deadbolt locks. 3 To meet any of these three grades, a deadbolt lock needs to withstand 360 pounds of force on top of ...
Generally, there are two types of smart locks: full-on deadbolt replacements and deadbolt adapters. The former replaces your entire deadbolt, while the latter requires you to only swap out the ...
There's no shortage of options, from fully installed models that replace your deadbolt to renter-friendly retrofit solutions. Here at PCMag, we've been testing smart locks since they first hit the ...