Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Door

Our back door looks unremarkable, but it took me a while to figure it out.  It opens and closes in the traditional manner and it unlocks in the usual way, but what is totally different is the way in which it locks.  Before locking the door the handle must be raised all the way to engage some sort of mechanism.  Then you can turn the key and lock the door.

not our door, but a good illustration
Turns out this a multi-point locking system, which allows the door to be locked in more than one place on the frame, providing added security.  It strikes me as odd since the most common thing in Danish homes is an enormous window.  Or maybe that is not how burglars enter homes?  Regardless of security, it took quite a while to adjust to something I had to do several times a day.

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