Installing the lock in the gate: options and methods

Many owners of suburban real estate care about such a question as the installation of locks on the gate. Here you have to take into account many features, because the gate is different from the usual door with its design, besides it has to withstand significant loads and adverse environmental effects.

In order to decide how to install the lock, it is necessary to take into account the construction of the gate itself and select the lock suitable for it.

Lock selection

By type of installation

By type of installation могут быть врезными, накладными и навесными, а их выбор зависит не только от ваших личных предпочтений, но и от конструкции калитки (см. Какие калитки лучше — делаем выбор).

So:

• Suspension can be installed on almost any wicket. But it is the most unreliable in relation to burglary and, moreover, is not convenient in operation, as it requires the installation of a latch or other internal locking device used during the stay of the owners at the site.

• Overhead valued for ease of installation and no need to violate the design of the gate and reduce its strength. Such outside are locked with a key, and from the inside - with the help of a turntable.
• The most reliable and popular - mortise. But their installation is not always possible or requires additional welding.

By type of mechanism

When deciding which lock to choose, it is necessary to take into account the ability of the mechanism to operate normally in all weather conditions.

Let's see how the different types of mechanisms mounted on the gate behave:

• Cylinder. The mechanism, enclosed in such a lock, is made with great precision, so even the smallest drop of water that has fallen into it and turned into ice will disrupt its operation. Therefore, in solving the problem of how to install a cylinder-type lock, it is necessary to consider its protection from moisture and dust.
• Suvaldny. More resistant to adverse operating conditions, but with direct ingress of moisture into it may also refuse. Therefore, in the absence of the possibility of tie-in, it is also necessary to protect it with additional structural elements.

For reference. As a protection for the lock, a metal “pocket” is welded to the gate - a cavity into which the locking device is mounted. Not be superfluous and the device canopy over the gate.

• Electromagnetic. If you do not know how to make the lock on the gate as reliable and durable as possible, pay attention to locks without a mechanism, which is a winding placed in a metal case with a steel magnetic core. When electric current gets into the winding, it keeps the gate in a closed position. Since there are no moving parts in such a lock, there is nothing to break in it, which makes it most reliable for use as an external one. But the electromagnetic lock requires constant power supply, which is not always realistic.
• Electromechanical. In addition to the winding, it has a locking mechanism that allows you to open and close the gate with an ordinary key and in the absence of control voltage.

Mounting the castle

If you have decided on the type of locking device and have already purchased it, it is time to figure out how to put the lock on the gate.

With a padlock, everything is simple: you just need to fix it at the same level on the frame of the gate itself and on the pole of the eyelet into which the handle of the lock will be inserted. With overhead and mortise locks have to tinker longer. Especially if your choice fell on the lock with electronic or electromechanical control, to which you want to bring the voltage.

Installation of the padlock

The design of the gate for the installation of the padlock should be either a solid solid fabric or a frame structure with a T-shaped connection of the horizontal profile with the frame.

For reference. In principle, it is also possible to install a lock on a wicket from forged elements or a grid: to do this, it is sufficient to weld a rigid metal plate on the inside of the gate on which it will be attached. But in this case, the lock can be easily opened without a key, putting a hand to the inside between the forging elements.

Instructions on how to install a lock on the gate:

1. Mark up: attach the lock to the plane of the wicket at the right place or to the T-shaped structure and mark the position of future mounting holes.
2. Also mark the location of the castle face.
3. Drill the mounting holes and use suitable taps to cut the threads for the mounting screws.
4. Drill out the contour of the mask with an M4 drill, and then cut the edges of the hole with a roller cutter to get rid of the chipping.
5. Install and secure the lock.
6. The counterpart, if the design allows, is screwed to the outer frame of the gate after preliminary marking and arrangement of the holes with a thread. Or the mating hole is cut by the grinder in the frame itself.

If the lock requires a power supply, you will have to spend time and effort on the wiring. It is desirable that the frame of the gate consists of shaped pipes (see the gate of the shaped pipes together with the gate), then you do not have to protect and hide the wires - you can skip them inside the pipe, and for laying open areas use cable channels and DLT transitions .

Mortise lock installation

The easiest way to solve the problem is how to insert a lock into a metal gate when its frame is welded from shaped pipes of sufficiently large cross section: such that the inside of the lock fits in the cavity of the pipe. Today, special narrow locks are made, designed specifically for such purposes.

In this case, you do not have to think long about how to put the lock in the gate - the installation process is no different from installing locks in a metal door.

1. At the end of the profile, a rectangular marking is made to the size of the rear end of the lock.
2. After the metal has been cut out according to the markup, a lock is inserted into the formed niche, and the fastening points are marked on the profile, at which the thread is cut after drilling.
3. The next stage is marking the hole for the lock cylinder. It is necessary to do it very carefully, accurately removing the dimensions from the locking device and transferring them to the profile tube of the frame.
4. In the same way, a hole for a square rod is drilled and drilled, which connects the lock with the door handles.
5. Having drilled all the holes, insert the lock into the groove, place the larva in it and fix them with self-tapping screws.
6. Place a square rod in the hole, put handles with overlays on it and mark on the profile the location of the holes for coupling bolts. After their drilling will only pull the lining with each other.
7. Reciprocal level for fixing the lock is installed on the pole after the installation of the locking device.

If you do not know how to insert a lock into the wicket door from a corrugated sheet, the frame of which is made of a thin pipe or corner, for this you will have to make a metal box (pocket) and weld it to the wicket frame.