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Who has front and back doors that are keyed differently? I have one key for all doors.
Also, most locksmiths have cool key designs you can buy. Do that instead. Maybe do some electrolysis or powder coating if you must DIY. Paint will flake off inside the lock, gum up the works, and ruin your whole day.
Well until I read that comment I assumed everybody lol
If you own your home, go fix that. It is a pretty straightforward fix.
Just be sure you wash your key before entering the front if you used it in the back first.
Cheeky bastard...
My house was designed to be a duplex (despite being a single house on a 6-acre country property), so the two floors have their own separate amenities. They only connect with a rickety staircase in the basement. Otherwise, they might as well be two separate apartments.
The house is embedded in a hill, so the first floor walks out at ground level in the front yard and the second floor exits at ground level in the back yard.
My parents used to rent out the first floor when I was a kid, so that door always had a separate lock. Now, I have a buddy and his mother living in the first floor while they're trying to get back on their feet.
Their house got foreclosed on when they were 95% paid off on their mortgage, so they lost everything. And rentals are way too expensive in my area for them to afford. So they're staying with me until they can save enough for a home of their own.
I like that they have their own key separate from my floor. I don't have to worry about them snooping in my home when I'm not around, and vice versa. They get a sense of privacy, knowing that I'm not just gonna walk into their home.
You can key the shared door to accept both unit keys, while each unit key will only be able to open their own unit and the shared door, but not the other unit.
I did this when I rented in a multi family home that had a shared outer door but individual unit front doors, so I could use my own apartment key to also open the outer shared door and the shared exterior basement door.
I actually have electric number pad locks on both doors. They're separate locks; the back door has had one for years and I just installed a new door on the front a couple years ago.
So they technically have two separate keys, but we don't really use the keys. I know the combo to both doors (since it's my home), but my friends living on the first floor only know the combo to their front door.
I like it because they're set to always be locked from the outside, so I never have to worry about whether I locked my door or not. If the door shuts, it's locked. And I don't need to carry a key around. Just enter the combo and it unlocks for 10 seconds.
Nice, I would still be tempted to register the inner door code to open the outer door too. I hate redundancy and love the idea of everyone having 1 credential that opens everything they are allowed to access. At my current place we use codes but we don't have access to register them unfortunately so I have to put up with memorizing multiple things, on top of having the front office accidentally reset our accounts one day causing us to need to toss all our old codes and memorize a whole new set because they don't know how to re-register the old codes that they wiped.