What is the best garage door lock?

There are 3 different types of locks on a garage door. The first and most common way to lock a garage door is the opener unit. When the opener and the door is in the down position the door cannot be opened manually. The second type of lock is a T-handle lock. These locks use a T-handle on the outside of the door and need a key to unlock. When you turn the handle it pushes or pulls a bar thru the track of the door locking it down or releasing it to open door. The other type of garage doors lock is called a slide lock. This lock is a small metal box with a slide handle that is located inside on the left or right side of the door. A slide lock just slides a bar thru the track to lock it down. At the end of the bar is a hole so you can put a padlock on it if needed. Slide locks are the most simple design but also the most effective when used with a padlock. The door cannot be opened from the inside or outside of door without a key or combination.

other garage door’s locking systems

All the other locking systems can be easily unlocked from the inside of the garage with or without keys. Warning, if you have an opener installed in your garage you have to always make sure the door is not locked when you operate the opener. This is a common situation and it happens all the time. The result is damage to the top section of the garage door. When I install garage door openers and the door has a manual locking mechanism I always ask the homeowner if they would like me to disable it to prevent any damage to the door.    My opinion the best garage door lock or way to lock a garage door is to have a garage door opener installed. You will have to be careful if you have windows on the top section of your garage door because it is very easy to just break a window out reach in and pull down on the emergency release Handel and open the garage door. If the safety is your concern then you should probably not have a garage door with windows on the top section  . Is always a concern in certain cities like San Francisco because most people have their garage on the sidewalk pretty much of the street because there is no room for a garage in the backyard so everybody’s garage entry sits on the street and people are always walking by your garage door they don’t even have to come onto your property to break into a garage door they can just walk up on the sidewalk and break in. Also if you have Windows people can just peep into your garage as they are walking by.

the easiest way to lock is…

If you do not have any form of lock on your garage door then the easiest way to lock it is to look for one of the many small holes in your garage door track and see if you can stick something metal in one of the many holes and you will need to place it above one of the garage door rollers this way it will block the roller from going up and will temporarily lock your garage door. The best thing to use is probably a screwdriver or a large screw or even clapping some vice grips right above the garage door roller on the track will also have the same effect.