The photos above show the tunnel system on the inside of the house with the door/flaps on the exterior. How does that work with the locking panel?
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The panel does not fit great into the given slots. But you can wedge it into slot and get it to work. Our door is in the wall and the locking panel is hard to get in. It is actually slightly too large for the area its supposed to fit into.But it does keep the weather outside and latches closed pretty tightly. Our cat used to use the dog door but does not anymore since it is too heavy for him to push against.
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The locking panel fits in grooves inside the door. You do not have to slide it in from the top like other dog doors. So, you can put the locking panel in while the door is resessed within the tunnel.
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It is a spring and cam type system. If the door is open it will stay open, but once you start to close the door it will pull itself closed. The mechanism in is the center behind the hinge.
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You can put a tunnel in the entrance hole. I don't see any way to attach it though.
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Thank you for your question! This particular door comes with a hard plastic closing panel which slides down into place on the indoor side of the door frame to block the opening off.
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It auto-locks, so there is no need to lock from the inside. It has an always-open mode if you want it to stay unlocked.
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YesGuidera48 said on November 16, 2014 | Edit Yes. I have mine in a wall in the kitchen by the back door. However you will have to frame the inside of the opening with 1x4 wood and paint it. I have installed over 8 of these in walls over the years for customers. I am a general contractor and remodel lots of kitchens. I always sell this item as a must have. I normally line the space with bent aluminum coil. ( used in roof fascias and other locations on a house). This allows the cleaning of the tunnel on a regular basis. I used to paint the tunnel but you have no idea how dirty it gets. I install the flap part on the sheetrock in the house and the trim piece on the outside. it all depends what kind of exterior you have on the house. I.e. Brick, hardie plank, vinyl siding, etc. . On lap siding, T111 siding or vinyl, i picture frame the opening and install the plastic trim on top. The tunnel ends up about 5 to 6 inches long. Both my cat and jack russell fly through it. In the mornings, when I go turn on the coffee machine, they are both waiting by the door to be let out. . Best thing I did for them, and me.
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The wall mount is deeper to account for the thickness of the wall. The wall mount includes a matching top, bottom and sides, like a small tunnel several inches deep. The door mount frame has screws that connect from the frame piece on the inside of the door to the frame piece on the outside of the door. I don't know how you could rig it on a wall even if you built your own tunnel.
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Hey Chris, yes the door handles have holes in them, so when the two doors are closed the holes line up and you can easily slide a lock in the holes.
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If you lock from inside you will unable the sistem to be opened from outside. From inside you don,t need to unlock the sistem to open the door, only move the handle down.
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My outer door opens outward as well (I live in Florida) and I do not use the legs that came with the ramp because I have accordion hurricane shutters and the runner for the shutter extends on the curb part of the doorway, so I just set the ramp on the shutter runner and it works well that way. I have never had a problem opening the door and it never move the ramp. My husband drives his scooter on it into the house. Hope this helps you - we are pleased with this ramp and it works for us.
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It does lock, but with enough force my cats can push it open anyways. We use it for the garage door since we keep their boxes there. So not really a problem for us. But i do not recommend it for exterior. If a cat can push it open, i bet a raccoon would find it elementary.
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I don't understand your question. I bought two of these for some new doors i bought, They take a key to get in from the outside, but on the inside they have a latch so you don't need to lock it from the inside with a key. Is that what you're asking?
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There's a button you push in to lock. Just turn handle and the door unlocks and opens. I really love these latitude handles, and the price is great.
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I notice that they don't show the back of the door on purpose. I just got the PDS-500, and the black box that is covering the works, and takes up most of the back of the door, is about 1 3/8 ". The distance from bottom, without pad, to rail is about 3 3/8. That only leaves 2" inside for stuff. So, how deep is the works plastic thing? Must be less on this one. Are you sure of your depth inside with door closed?I might be getting this one, though it does cost 75% more. Let me know. Thanks!
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Chris; I'm not a locksmith, but the image that you copied and sent was a "Passage Door Knob." there is no lock mechanism. There are various Entrance Locks that have knobs and a keypad as well. I would think that as long as you are using a brass lockset, I can't imagine the building not allowing a lever type lock. The lever locks came about primarily because of the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act.) If you had trouble grasping a door knob, they (by law) would have to supply you with a lever type lock. I put in a bright brass lever keypad lock like the one pictured to the left. My family all thought that I was nuts, but now they love it. There are several models. The one pictured here has "Z-Wave" capabilities which would allow you to unlock the door remotely if you spend the money on the interface. What I don't like about it, is it is very easy to hit the unlock button on the inside while you are going in or out of the house. I wished that I got the model where you have to manually unlock the door from the inside if you want to disable the keypad. Otherwise, I LOVE IT&gt;
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It's always unlocked from the inside. NOW. If you're planning on using this on a outside door. Don't. We have gone thru 2 at the fire department We thought we screwed up the first one. So we bought a second one since our ID cards work on it. This time we made sure there was no chance of any moister getting inside. Well the second one died in 3 months. We just went back to a door knob
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No, it just latches. You can "set" it to remain unlatched with a hex key from the inside, but there is no typical key to lock the door.