S/O of How do you feel about teens locking bedroom doors? Thread. Locks on bedroom doors

[tvguy]

Do you have locks on any or all your bedrooms? I'm 64 and have never lived in a house with locks on any bedroom door. When we remodeled and replaced all the doors the contractor did ask if we wanted a lock on the master bedroom door, but I had never thought about it before then and we did not want one.

 

[mumto3girls]

All of our bedroom and bathroom doors have locks.

 

[tvguy]

All of our bedroom and bathroom doors have locks.

Yes, every bathroom has had a lock on the door.

 

[ronandannette]

We're in a condo built 50 years ago and only the bathrooms have locking doors. Today's current construction specifications (at least here locally) is that only the master bedroom, along with the bathrooms, have locks, called "privacy sets". They are all the kind you can jig from the outside to unlock if necessary.

 

[prairie_girl]

Do you have locks on any or all your bedrooms? I'm 64 and have never lived in a house with locks on any bedroom door. When we remodeled and replaced all the doors the contractor did ask if we wanted a lock on the master bedroom door, but I had never thought about it before then and we did not want one.

I’ve never lived in a house without locks on the bedroom doors. Not that we used them, but were there if we needed.

 

[prairie_girl]

We're in a condo built 50 years ago and only the bathrooms have locking doors. Today's current construction specifications (at least here locally) is that only the master bedroom, along with the bathrooms, have locks, called "privacy sets". They are all the kind you can jig from the outside to unlock if necessary.

Are they the ones with a hole in the handle that you can stick a skewer or something similar into to pop out the lock? That’s what we had growing up. We currently live in a eight year old building and the bedrooms and bathrooms have a turn lock on all the handles. We’re in an accessible building too.

 

[ronandannette]

Are they the ones with a hole in the handle that you can stick a skewer or something similar into to pop out the lock? That’s what we had growing up. We currently live in a eight year old building and the bedrooms and bathrooms have a turn lock on all the handles. We’re in an accessible building too.

Yes. Those "turn locks" can be released too, but it takes a little tool that you can put in a slot, which is on the underside of the lever-style handle.

 

[NotUrsula]

Locks, but we can't lock them because we don't have keys, LOL. This house was built in 1934 and the bedroom door locks take skeleton keys.

 

[Dan Murphy]

No bedroom door locks.

 

[Skywalker3]

All bedrooms in this house came w door locks except the extra downstairs, and it has a latch now. Our main bedroom has an extra deadbolt. growing up, all bedroom doors had locks. I remember a few doors at my older aunts' houses that only had hooks.

 

[Grand Koalafornian]

I didn't have a lock on my bedroom door as a teenager and I didn't care. Rarely closed my door at all.

I continued living with my parents for economic reasons into my twenties and installed a lock on my bedroom door with my parents' consent because my mom had a tendency to just walk in when the door was closed and I just wanted privacy. I have ADHD, so when I'm really focused, if I get interrupted, I can't get that back. It was necessary to get my homework and/or remote work done.

I was a nanny and when one of my kids turned 13, he started occasionally locking his door. He kept his grades up and had no problem behavior, so it wasn't a problem. I could sometimes hear him singing along to pop songs when I passed his door, so I think he just wanted privacy to be himself without fear of judgement.

I believe all kids deserve privacy. There are many reasons why a kid might want to lock their door. As long as parents can open it in an emergency (and only ever use it in cases of emergency) I see no problem.

 

[disykat]

We never felt the need to put a lock on the kid's bedroom doors, but we put one on ours. When the kids were old enough to need privacy, we knocked. When the kids were young we wanted privacy and they didn't knock!

Now I use the lock more for my husband than anything else. He's very oblivious and has a knack for catching me undressed and if there are people in the house they can see straight into the room. Locking when there are people in the house so I can get dressed privately saves us all a the embarrassment!

 

[RedAngie]

All my bedroom doors have locks. DDs often locked their doors when they lived at home. No problem.

I don’t even fully close my bedroom door, let alone lock it. The cat forbids it.

 

[superme80]

Only the master bedroom has a lock.

 

[mamamary]

All the doors in my house have locks. Growing up the doors had locks also. There was never a problem.

 

[Disneylover99]

I’ve never even been in a house with bedroom door locks.

 

[CynBeth]

All the doors in my house have locks. Growing up the doors had locks also. There was never a problem.

Same here.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

All of our bedroom doors have locks... it was just that way when we bought the house.

 

[slo]

All bedrooms have locks

 

[Kitty 34]

Our doors have locks, it's the way they came.