Do you lock your doors when you're home?

[kiana2015]

My husband has a habit of not locking the door behind him when he leaves for work if I'm up, this morning I was in the kitchen washing DD's bottles when he left, I spent a good 30 minutes in the kitchen before I came out and realised the door was unlocked whilst DD was upstairs asleep, I panicked and was rather annoyed with him. It got me thinking, when you're home do you lock your doors? Since DD came I've had this awful anxiety about the door being locked and someone comes strolling in, the way the world is now it wouldn't surprise me if this happens, does anyone else have the same fears?

Ours doesn't , if you want to lock it from the inside, you have to pull the handle up and turn the latch under it until it locks, if locking from the outside, again you pull the handle up and then lock with the key

I'm not a fan of those doors where you have to faff around lifting handles, I always get it wrong, even managed to jam one. Give me a Yale any day.

I do there is man in the local area who is notorious for trying the doors of peoples houses and just walking in, he isn't dangerous but will take things. He's been arrested and put in jail a few times but when he gets out he just does it again. He's learning disabled so gets away with it to a degree. The best thing is just to not give him and open door!

I live on an estate where all the front doors are the same and they need a key to be locked

Who knew that not everyone of the millions of doors in the country is the same as yours?

I'm always baffled on threads like these how many people claim to have never experienced a standard uPVC door.

Our door just locks on its own when you close it. I think it's safer that way - when we bought a house that had a door where you had to lock it, we got the lock changed when we moved in. Definitely worth changing the locks if you're worried about the door being left unlocked. We live on a busy street in inner London, and it wouldn't feel sensible to leave the door unlocked.

I used to keep them locked when the boys were small. Now we are a family of adults and I don't lock the front door if we are up and around. The back door is rarely used so always locked. If my young adult boys are here alone I lock up if I go out as they don't hear the door when they are upstairs.

My door, and pretty much every other door on the estate needs a key to lock from either inside or outside.

Front door is always locked,as we never use it. Key always in so we could get out in a fire. Back door is only locked at night.

Always.
Whatever I've lived.
Live in a quiet village and still had people trying doors through the night occasionally

I completely forgot alarms existed too actually. Funny how in America everyone had some type of alarm. Actually when I was younger I remember our houses having them but you don't really see them now, I wonder why, especially as everyone had a ring doorbell and they're rather new on the market

@Tubetrain If you want to try hitting 3 60kg dogs over the head then you could try but I wouldn't recommend it. You'd get one swing at one of them. I'm very comfortable with leaving my doors open in summer. It's bizarre to think you'd put in bifold doors and not open them because someone might appear.

Front door i don't lock with the key but I put the chain on in case 3 year old were to try the handle.
Back door we generally lock but if I'm in and out the kitchen il leave it unlocked as we have cats who come in and out alot.

We've got one, it's a new build estate and every house came with one.

We don't use it as the cat would set it off while we were out.

@VimesandhisCardboardBoots oh that's interesting I genuinely haven't seen one in ages. I do remember they used to be a pain with going off and my mum would always forget the code

Yes. We were burgled several times growing up with some attempts also foiled.

I am paranoid about security.

We didn’t for 16 years but recently moved to a new home (new to us not new build) and the door locks when you close it. I locked myself out on day 3 of living there 🤦‍♀️! So now we have a key safe outside in case I do it again…
Our previous house was a new build and we asked the builders to change the lock to one where you have to turn the key to lock it rather than self-lock as the children (then primary aged) were in and out making new friends and playing outside and locked us out on more than one occasion in the first week. We lived in a very low crime area and we only ever locked the door at bedtime. We also lost the garage key for several weeks (DS went out on his bike and mislaid the key) and just left it unlocked until we found it again. We’re now in a city and our home came with a ring doorbell, cctv, alarm, the works…I’m not sure I feel any safer though than when we lived in the country and had a much laxer attitude to locking up!!

I'm baffled how many people on this thread aren't locking doors?! Main question is why? It takes a few seconds, why don't you just lock it as soon as you get in?

Struggling to understand why anyone wouldn't automatically lock doors even if they do live in an area where's there's low crime.

Literally anyone could walk into your house?? Wtf

So you'd rather anyone being able to access your property over being locked safely inside your own house??

I don't, did for a year or so when DD was a toddler and I was worried she'd let herself out without me noticing but stopped once she was old enough to understand not to. I'm more worried about not being able to get out in a fire or other emergency then I am qbout people getting in

Our doors are always locked.

when dd was a toddler, we had to get special locks up high that could secure doors so they were double locked. We didn’t realize it at the time but she was autistic, figured out locks early, and had no concerns about just walking right out of the house. She also had no problem building a scaffold to reach the supposedly child proof locks so we had to watch her like a hawk.

We are very similar 😂. The door is never locked except for at night or when we go out.

Always locked now. Years ago I came downstairs to find a drunk man in the hall. After getting over my initial shock I realised he was drunk and managed to turn him round and out the door!.

Our door is locked when we shut it. I only double lock from the inside at about 10pm. I actually get embarrassed about doing it as I assume no one else in our neighbourhood does! But reading this post is making me think it's actually normal. What have we come to!

No. Only when go to bed. Or when I leave the house. Never ever occurred to me that I need to worry about someone entering my house whilst I was in it.

No, live very rurally though. Only gets locked at night. The postman opens the door and chucks parcels in 🤣 doesn't bother me though as I know him! like a pp we never use the back door so it's always locked with the key in incase of fire, recently went to open it and discovered it was unlocked...probably been like that for 6 months 🙈