Deadlatching is one of the things most builders in my area don't
understand. Also, most of my customers. I had an interesting
conversation one time with a truck driver I know. He was telling
me he could get into a certain building with two knives. One to
pry back the deadlatch trigger, and a second knife to pry back
the latch. I showed him what deadlatching was. How it worked. One
of the rare moments when he didn't have much to say.

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"Nate Nagel" wrote in message
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That must mean that there's a whole lot of crappy installs out
there,
because I can think of at least 3x off the top of my head that
I've had
to do the card trick and was able to pull it off in less than a
minute.
Once at a house I used to live in and at least twice on a
big, heavy
fire-rated door at a place I used to work. In fact, every time
I've
*needed* to get in a door, I've been able to.

The Weiser locks on my current house do appear to be resistant
to
"carding" as well as the metal weatherstrip would make it that
much more
difficult.

nate

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