ᐅ Front door with 5-point or 3-point automatic locking system?

Created on: 4 Feb 2022 10:05
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Taitv789
Hello,

we need to decide on the front door for our new build.

We can choose between:

A door with a 5-point locking system (standard)

or a door with a 3-point automatic locking system (extra cost of 160€) that automatically locks itself but can always be opened from the inside.

The disadvantage of the 3-point automatic locking is that it only has 3 locking bolts instead of 5.

The advantage is that the door is always locked, so you don’t have to remember to lock it.

Has anyone had experience with the automatic locking system?

Which door would you recommend?
Mycraft4 Feb 2022 18:52
@Tarnari
That's just how it is. Like the saying goes, people tend to reject what they don't know.

When I see discussions about whether something makes sense or not, I feel like I'm back in the early 90s, sitting at the computer and not being understood by many. They would ask what exactly I was doing.
i_b_n_a_n4 Feb 2022 18:56
Mycraft schrieb:

@Tarnari
I feel like I'm back in the early 90s during these discussions about sense or nonsense, sitting at my computer and often not being understood by many. People would ask what exactly I was doing.
This is, as in almost every aspect of life, due to a lack of empathy from those who do not understand.
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pagoni2020
4 Feb 2022 19:13
Mycraft schrieb:

@Tarnari
That’s just how it is. Like the saying, “People don’t eat what they don’t know.”
Well… that’s quite intense and already falls into a black-and-white perspective, doesn’t it?
Why is everything immediately so rigid? Nobody said anything bad, or does everyone just want to be among like-minded people? No wonder all the houses in the neighborhood look the same, although some might find that appealing as well.
Just imagine that there might be some completely unbiased readers here who ask themselves these questions because such things are being discussed. When any discussion or differing opinion is immediately shut down, people end up only among their own kind, and those readers won’t find any alternative viewpoints. Is that really how it should be?
Were you raised in such a way that you instantly lose your temper just because one “older” person questions something for themselves—only for their own personal reasons!!!!—and even explains why? To a young person I’d say: You become an adult when you do something even if an older person tells you otherwise!

I like technology; I was always the first to have it in the past. Today it often tires me out and brings me no joy or noticeable advantage (FOR ME!!!). That doesn’t mean I lack empathy, @i_b_n_a_n. Precisely because I do have some empathy, I understand my children who live very differently and support them in things I would never need myself, because they enjoy them. Does that make me a narrow-minded “country bumpkin”? I find that a bit strange when I read it.
Tarnari4 Feb 2022 19:22
But that does not contribute to the question at hand. Statements like "absurd," "I don't drive a car," or "then I'll lock myself out," etc., do not help at all with the topic.
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Bertram100
4 Feb 2022 19:29
Locking the door is very much on topic: when I leave the house, I insert the key into the lock from the outside, go out, and lock the door. If I didn’t have to do this step anymore, it seems more likely to me that I might forget the key sometimes. If others feel differently, even better. But this is a thought that comes to me when automating this routine.
Tarnari4 Feb 2022 19:37
Well, I have been living with the fact that you take a key and must not lose it for over 40 years now. Why should it be any different?
Anyway, people don’t have to get along. They just have to “be able to tolerate each other.”
As I said, I still need the key. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to get in if needed.