What time do you lock your front door at night?

[OneUmberJoker]

About 9.30pm about an hour before bed

when my DH comes to bed which is about 2.30am but he does forget a lot!

When we go to bed. I’ve never really understood why people lock themselves into their homes, but then, I’ve never lived anywhere which made this feel necessary, I guess.

As soon as I walk in the door. I'd forget otherwise.

Bed time

Our door is locked all of the time.

When we go to bed about 11ish

Front door is always locked but I put the chain on around 10pm which is my version of closing up for the night.

It’s always locked. Back door and gate are too. Why would I leave them open for some opportunist ?

I live in a lovely semi rural area, very safe, low crime but my doors front & back remain locked whenever I’m in the house. All day, all night, as required.

If someone came through my front door and I was at the back of the house in the kitchen for example, I’d never know so I keep myself locked in.
Its second nature to me.

We lock it when we shut it because why not!

It's locked all the time. I live alone. I double check it just before I get into bed though, around 10ish.

Our front door is always locked. The back gets locked at bedtime as the cat is in and out until then, plus the “middle door” to the utility room between the kitchen and garden.

We only engage the mortice lock when we leave the house unattended, otherwise at night it's just the automatic latch (Banham)

I generally lock the back door around 22:00 hrs as the back garden is fairly secure.

All the time. I've lived in some dodgy places, and it's become a habit.

Our doors are locked all of the time.

Our door is always locked unless we are going through it. I have previously had someone come into my house and it was a horrible and scary experience. I don't know how people can sit there with the door unlocked knowing that at any point someone could walk in and rob them.

Never as there's no handle on the outside so cannot be opened at all from outside

You can't open ours from the outside without a key, so it's always locked.

Our front door is locked all the time, but that's only because our street has a weird layout and the parking is out the back not the front, so we use the back gate and back door and never the front.

I lock up the back door when I go to bed. Whatever time that is. Not earlier because I'm always in and out of the back smoking!

Always locked, front and back, I'm surprised so many people don't lock theirs in the day, I panic if I forget to lock it immediately after coming in.

My front door is always locked. I use the back door. Very interested to see others on this thread do similar.
I lock the back door when I go up to bed.

When we go to bed, DS always puts the chain on if we sat outside before that

My door is always locked.

Door is always locked as it automatically locks when shut. Double lock it just before bedtime.

I always lock it when I get home. I unlock it just before the kids are due home from school then lock it when the last one is home.
When DH works away (not often) I check the door is locked before I go to bed. More than once I've found the door unlocked, and my house keys in the lock on the outside 🙈😂