How To Install A Door Slide Bolt
Be sure that the hole is large enough to eliminate any binding of the slide bolt.
How to install a door slide bolt. With the door bolt now fixed firmly to the door the final job is to fix the bolt keep onto the door frame. To install your security slide bolt lock you must first determine whether your door is inside sliding or outside sliding. Then screw the bolt onto the plywood. Glue this to the door where you want the bolt lining up the front edge of the plywood with the edge of the door.
Level up the door bolt and then mark drill and screw the top screw hole nearest the door. Install the barrel bolt at a height that is easily reachable. It will be necessary to drill deep enough to allow full extension of the slide bolt in order to secure the lock. Extend the bolt out slightly and push the bolt keep over it.
The closer it is to the center of the door the more. Close the door up until the keep touches the door frame. An outside sliding is a door in which the moving door is on the outside of the house whereas an inside sliding places the moving door on the inside of the house and the fixed one on the outside. Cut a piece of plywood larger than the size of the bolt.
A typical placement is one or two feet above the knob but it can be lower. Install and secure all 3 screws.