Building a Home

[zig]

Congratulations, wishing you many years of health and happiness in your new home.

I love the colours.

 

[chelzmalee]

Congratulations! Bet you're looking forward to that first glass of vino in that gorgeous kitchen.

 

[VPS]

Congratulations and thanks for taking us along on the journey. Hope you have many happy times there

 

[samh004]

Congratulations. Getting those keys is a pretty awesome feeling.

They made me listen to the barrel adjust to the keys... wasn’t nearly as exciting as they made out it would be

 

[TomVexille]

Congrats @samh004 and @frankie

 

[Buzzard]

Congratulations @samh004 and @frankie that's a really nice build.

 

[snabbu]

Congrats guys, looks like a dream come true.
From someone who has looked at the whole house build thing a couple of times, we have never been able to pull the trigger and commit due to apprehensions about this and that.
Great stuff you two, very jealous.

 

[love_the_life]

Congratulations to you both. A fantastic achievement.

 

[Drakecula]

Congratulations, I hope you have many happy years in your home

 

[Toula92122]

I love your choice of kitchen colour and design. Good luck in your new digs. Hopefully stress levels will go down now that the build process is over.

 

[OZDUCK]

And some more good wishes and congratulations. I have always been too cautious to build a home from new.

 

[Hvr]

They made me listen to the barrel adjust to the keys...

So have you had the locks rekeyed yet? After all your builder knows where everything is and that it's probably going to be vacant for at least a couple of weeks.

 

[Pushka]

I love your choice of kitchen colour and design. Good luck in your new digs. Hopefully stress levels will go down now that the build process is over.

So have you had the locks rekeyed yet? After all your builder knows where everything is and that it's probably going to be vacant for at least a couple of weeks.

So much for reducing stress levels.....

 

[blackcat20]

So have you had the locks rekeyed yet? After all your builder knows where everything is and that it's probably going to be vacant for at least a couple of weeks.

A waste of money, as soon as you use the actual key the builders keys can no longer be used.

 

[Pushka]

A waste of money, as soon as you use the actual key the builders keys can no longer be used.

Indeed. That's the point of the owners key insertion process. It modifies the internal mechanism.

 

[JessicaTam]

I change and key alike all the locks on any house I move into. Rental or bought.

As my old boss used to say, "Don't trust no bar****d".

 

[Pushka]

I change and key alike all the locks on any house I move into. Rental or bought.

As my old boss used to say, "Don't trust no bar****d".

A new build is different though in that the first turn by the new owner's key changes the internal structure of the lock.

 

[samh004]

As noted above by @blackcat20 & @Pushka, while I don't understand the exact process of the first key insert, I'm not going to pay all this money just to buy a whole new lock and get it replaced. The builder can no longer get in with whatever key he has (or had) and in any case, if someone really wanted to rip off some appliances, windows break easily.

When the internet goes on, so will the security feed.

We have neighbours in all 4 directions, and the street still has a few houses being built, so during the day there's trades and at night there's my future neighbours. In either case, they'd all have to be working together, as just one person not part of the group would raise the alarm I'd think to anything suspicious.

 

[Pushka]

As noted above by @blackcat20 & @Pushka, while I don't understand the exact process of the first key insert, I'm not going to pay all this money just to buy a whole new lock and get it replaced. The builder can no longer get in with whatever key he has (or had) and in any case, if someone really wanted to rip off some appliances, windows break easily.

When the internet goes on, so will the security feed.

We have neighbours in all 4 directions, and the street still has a few houses being built, so during the day there's trades and at night there's my future neighbours. In either case, they'd all have to be working together, as just one person not part of the group would raise the alarm I'd think to anything suspicious.

Im thinking, use your owner key in all external locks so they too change? Blackcat20 will know more how that works.

 

[JessicaTam]

A new build is different though in that the first turn by the new owner's key changes the internal structure of the lock.

I accept that, but who has had that key before it is handed to the owner?