{"id":4874,"date":"2019-09-27T21:07:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T02:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=4874"},"modified":"2019-09-28T19:07:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T00:07:14","slug":"installing-garage-door-slide-locks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/27\/installing-garage-door-slide-locks\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Garage Door Slide Locks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/slide_lock_hands.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4877\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/slide_lock_hands-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/slide_lock_hands-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/slide_lock_hands-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/slide_lock_hands-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/slide_lock_hands-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/slide_lock_hands.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My garage has four doors (two in the front, and two in the back) which gives a lot of cross-ventilation potential, but unfortunately some of the doors had the slide-locks installed incorrectly, such that there was no available slots to lock the doors in a &#8220;slightly open&#8221; position to let air circulate. \u00a0 They also only had one lock per door, so I rectified that situation by adding a 2nd slide lock to the other side of each door, and moving a few of the original slide locks so that two of the doors can be locked with a 2&#8243; gap below them. \u00a0 I spent less than $30 for all four slide locks and a box of self drilling sheet metal screws, so it was a relatively quick and inexpensive improvement.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/MvVcZ--1xw0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My garage has four doors (two in the front, and two in the back) which gives a lot of cross-ventilation potential, but unfortunately some of the doors had the slide-locks installed incorrectly, such that there was no available slots to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/27\/installing-garage-door-slide-locks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4874"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4880,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions\/4880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}