Rebate Kits: A Potent Solution For Mortice Locks and Latches

Rebates are usually seen with double doors.

1. This reduces draught
2. Gives a nice snug fit
3. Allows privacy

However where a mortice latch or mortice lock is used on a double door with a rebate then a rebate kit to suit the latch or lock must be used.

The term ‘rebated doors’ is usually used to describe a set of two doors which have been cut, or rebated, into one another. To do this, half of the ‘thickness’ of the face of each door is channeled out, usually by 13mm, but also by 19mm or 25mm, so that when they close the doors interlock into one another. This ensures a neat and solid fit when closed, and will help to prevent the two doors from warping away from each other too much after fitting.  When used externally, it also ensures that the doors are fully sealed for much better protection against the weather, wind, and water penetration.

On double doors there is normally a ‘Slave Door' – Meaning one of the doors is bolted in place; and a ‘Passage Door' – The door which is most commonly used for passage, and the door upon which the door handle or knob is mounted.

A Rebate Kit is an ironmongery accessory that is employed to allow a lock or latch mechanism to be fitted correctly on a pair of double opening rebated doors. 

The term ‘rebated doors’ is used to describe a set of double doors which have been cut, or rebated, into one another. To do this, half of the ‘thickness’ of the face of each door is channeled out, usually by 13mm, but also by 19mm or 25mm, so that when they close the doors interlock into one another. This ensures a neat and solid fit when closed, and will help to prevent the two doors from warping away from each other too much after fitting.  When used externally, it also ensures that the doors are fully sealed for much better protection against the weather, wind, and water penetration.

On double doors there is usually a ‘Slave Door' – Meaning one of the doors is bolted in place; and a ‘Passage Door' – The door which is most commonly used for passage, and the door upon which the door handle or knob is mounted.

The Rebate Kit becomes essential when using a Mortice Latch or Lock on rebated doors as these are designed with standard square edges which do not fit well into the rebated sections. The Rebate Kit provides a shaped surround for the Latch or Lock mechanism that will ‘level’ the rebate on the face of both of the doors at the point where the Latch or Lock is placed – thus allowing the doors to latch into place securely.

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The Unidentified World Of Different Lock Mechanism

Days have gone back when locks were considered as the source of security to home and therefore without paying any attention towards the aesthetics of their doors people used heavy locks to protect the expensive assets placed inside their place. Today, going through the changing life-style of people locks have undergone wide changes and today along with offering complete security to valuable assets locks are also considered as the source of enhancing the appearance of your doors and therefore today you will find plethora of locks available in market which satisfy twin objective of house owners in cost effective way.

1. Mortice Deadlocks: Enriched with five lever mechanism the mortice deadlock is mounted on the slot of door with strike plate studded on the door frame. To lock and unlock them, you will always require a key often referred a chubb key. The worth mentioning feature of this locking mechanism is that to offer strong protection to your home you can get its master key developed for locking the doors while you go out. Having the master key developed will protect your door from being unlocked by another copied key. In-fact once you locked your door with master key then it will be unlocked only with the same key and not by any other key.
   
2. Cylinder Profile Mortice Locks: Because of the triple lock mechanism these locks are mainly installed on main doors. The major operating element in this locking system is the cylinder that in fact is the place where key is inserted and depending upon the size of pins the lock can be unlocked by twisting the latch.
   
3. Dust Boxes: These are simple looking locks which are mainly installed on the drawer, mail boxes, tool box; they are mainly made of plastic and metal.
   
4. Pocket/Sliding Door Locks: These door locks are basically automatic door locks which mainly operate with help of some code and cannot be opened by any other means. The basic advantage of these door locks is that without hanging a big lock at your door you can easily go out from your home for long vacations without any tension of forceful entrance by the burglars. 
   
5. Profile Cylinders: Also referred as Euro cylinder locks these lock mechanism has the plug shaped slot in which key is inserted to unlock the door. On the other side there is lever which operates in accordance the way key is moved for locking or unlocking the door.
   

Along with different shapes and designs, these locks are also available in different finishes such as Polished Brass, Polished Chrome, Satin Chrome, Applied Bronze, Antique Brass, etc, which further help in enhancing the appearance of the door on which they are installed.

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Designer Locks To Enhance The Aesthetics Of Your Doors

What will be your reaction if you find an advertisement from some lock manufacturing endorsing to offer you plethora of designer locks that along with offering complete security to your home also help in enhancing the look of your doors? Obviously you will read the message with surprise because since your childhood you have been using the locks that are locked at the gate for protecting your valuable assets, and therefore you had always place big and strong locks at your doors.

But do you know by doing this you are indirectly inviting the burglars to enter in your place when you are away from your home. This might surprise you, but it is true your home is always on the eyes of burglars whenever you are away from it for long time. Therefore going through the concern of home owners now days there are different types of locks available in market that along with offering robust solution to the security of your home also do not let the thieves even know about your absence.

Some of these lock configurations are referred below:

1. Cylinder Rim Nightlatches: They are mainly the standard locks and whenever you lock the door the latch engages and locks the door. To lock and unlock the door you need to make use of keys.
   
2. Rim Cylinders for Nighlatch: These locks are mainly installed at the front door and equipped with deadlock that can be unlocked with help of a key from outside, whereas during the night if someone tries to push the snib he will not be able to unlock the deadlock even with the duplicate keys as the lock also gets locked from inside. In simple words it can be said that this feature offers you state of mind while you are away from your home.
   
3. Special Purpose Lock: As the name suggests these locks are mainly designed for installing on the lockers and cupboards where expensive assets like jewelry and confidential documents are kept. These locks are mainly locked with help of code numbers and cannot be unlocked without mentioning the determined code for opening them.
   
4. 72mm Centre Mortice Locks: These are fire resistant locks that are developed strictly according to government and council regulation act determined for building projects. They are operated with help of latchbolt with lever handles at both the exterior and interior side by using double cylinder.
   
5. Rim Locks & Knobs: They mainly refer to hardware that is used on different lock mechanism for developing different types of locks. They are developed by making use of robust materials due to which it is not possible to break them easily.
   

After going through the above description of locks I am sure next time when you will buy a lock for your home you will consider any of them for your house too.

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