3 Pack GlideLok Child Safety Door Top Lock | Kids & Elderly Parents

“Oh he’ll never be able to get in there with the door latched!!” (Kid gets a long toy, flips open the hook latch, and gets in) “Well these door handle covers will keep him out” (Kid pulls cover off, gets in the room) “Let’s try these GlideLok things!! Its too high up for you to reach to even mess with!” (Kid glares at GlideLok, his nemesis and gatekeeper, protector of breakables, jailer of fun and recklessness) I give GlideLok 5 stars, my son gives GlideLok no stars 😂 These METAL GlideLok latches are really great. My husband installed them (3 latches) in under 10 minutes total. Our house was built in 1780 and has historic doors that have been painted over a few times. The gaps between the top door edge and the door frame vary from squeaking on one door to a fat gap on another. We hand sanded the top of one door just a tiny bit and GlideLok fit perfectly! GlideLok’s instructions are VERY helpful and intuitive. They are in American English, not a weird translation. The whole set is made of metal, which is important when making something that’s supposed to keep a door shut. There have been times when one of us has just gone to open the door and go through forgetting the GlideLok, and it held up to it fine. If it were made of plastic it would have definitely broken!! This lock requires a screw to be screwed into the top of the doorframe. There is a plastic sleeve that fits over this screw. I like this feature, it makes the lock slide smoothly as well as look neat. I’ve had these locks in place for a couple months now and we use them constantly. My son likes to run out of the house into the yard, but doesn’t always wait for someone to come with him. (He also always doesn’t wait for shoes. Or clothes). We have GlideLoks on the doors going from the main living area into the kitchen, hall and the rest of the house, so we are constantly locking and unlocking them. They keep my son safe and where he should be! There is no damage to the doors. We followed the directions that says to use a white crayon (or candle) to lubricate the tops of the doors if they were snug, but we just did all the doors. They never squeak. All in all these genuine GlideLok latches are exactly what I needed. Don’t buy the crappy plastic knockoff ones!! These locks have been banged around quite a bit by my family and they still work perfectly and look great, too. Highly recommended products for parents!!

To combat my special needs sons dangerous habit of wandering, I had searched all sorts of methods and this is the one that was immediatly the most secure and cost efficient. 1. It's lockable/unlockable from both sides of the door so no worries of accidental lockouts/ins & makes it perfect for use on interior and exterior doors alike. 2. It's simple which means user friendly & cheap. 3. It installs at the top of the door so I won't have to worry about him reaching to manipulate it for some time. 4. With a spring I can rig it to auto latch once the doors closed thus preventing him from using a stick to slide it open. (will also work to remind my mother to use it as she would 't be able to close the door without latching it) I looked into dual sided mechanical keypads with levers but the decent ones start at $250. Add the fact that he could eventualy glimpse us entering the code and do it himself, this makes for an expensive who knows how temporary solution. I tried a door alarm that would sound when the door opened but my elderly mother kept turning it off. I tried a special latch for inside the front door but that only works if I'm home to insure it's used. I tried GPS locating devices with geofence abilities but they seemed notorious for false locations and only worked if the child was in clear sight of satelites, = no woods or buildings. I can rest a little bit easier with these installed. Of course if your situation is like mine this alone is far from a complete solution though it is proving to be part of one.

We needed a solution for childproofing our pantry door, and after researching lots of different options I came to realize that there was no one perfect solution. The door itself has a rotating handle (as opposed to a door knob) on both the inside and the outside, and there are several products that will lock the door by preventing this handle from rotating. The problem with those products is that the inside and outside door handles rotate together, so blocking one from rotating will block both of them. This means that if you go into the pantry, the door closes behind you, and the mechanism activates (or your toddler activates it), you could be locked inside. I have read several accounts of this scenario happening, including in the reviews for those products. What I like about THIS lock is that it can be activated (or deactivated) from either side of the door. Installation couldn't be much easier: you attach a peg to the upper door frame with a single screw, then place the sliding mechanism on the top of the door. That's it. There are, however, a couple of challenges: 1) The lock may not slide easily along the top of your door. If that's the case, take a candle (a votive or something) and rub it along the section of the slider that rests on top of the door, and that should help it slide more easily. 2) Depending on the height of your door, the lock may be too high for you to reach it. Fortunately the slider has a hole where you can attach a string and use that to pull the slider back and forth. Unfortunately this means you'll have a string hanging down from the top of the door frame, which sort of negates the otherwise subtle appearance of this lock, but sometimes that's the price of childproofing. 3) Depending on how solid the door is, your child may be able to force it open if he/she pushes hard enough on it and breaks the lock mechanism. Worse still, a finger could get injured. Our pantry door is about 8' tall and lightweight, so if our daughter pushed really hard on it the door would "twist" as the lower part moved but the upper part didn't. If the lower part moved enough to clear the door frame and she got a finger in the gap, her finger could get injured from the door springing back into place. So yet again, childproofing doesn't substitute for parental guidance and supervision! Bottom line: Despite a few challenges, this lock may be the best way to childproof certain doors, especially because it virtually eliminates the risk of you (or someone else) being locked inside.

My wife has dementia and she often will open the front door to greet people. There is usually no issue with her going outside when I or a caregiver is present. She is not a wanderer so there is no need to permanently prevent her from opening the door. However, if I'm taking a shower, I really don't want her going outside talking to a random stranger unsupervised. The Glidelok is *perfect* for my needs. I can engage the safety lock only when needed. More importantly, it is strong enough to prevent an adult from simply breaking the safety lock by pulling on the door. I'm sure a determined adult can force the lock open, but someone with dementia will hopefully walk away. My wife gave up trying to open the door. To top it off, the Glidelok was a breeze to install. Update: my wife really wanted to open the front door yesterday. She pulled hard enough to rip the peg out of the door frame. The original screw extends only a half inch into the wood, which doesn't provide enough holding power to keep the peg from being pulled out. I bought a 3.5" #12 screw to replace the original screw. The peg is not coming out now.

I have been searching high and low for a product to keep my toddler safe who is into everything and has zero fear. I research the crap out of everything before deciding to purchase something so I'm hoping to pass along my wisdom/results/insight and save you some time. This safety lock was easy to install. I did it myself with my drill and drill bit. It tells you what size to use. This thing is heavy duty and I LOVE that it has the option to fit my door to the garage so hubby can let himself in from outside the door by sliding it one way to unlock or the other way to lock. The plastic version of this product does not fit my thicker door to the garage. I also have an incredibly strong toddler who doesn't give up easily. This keeps him safe! Only slight downside to this product is it can be a little noisy if you are trying to use it in a quieter room. But I prefer this over the plastic option. Here's a BIG TIP for this product...tap in a very small nail at the very end of the top of the door. Just have it stick up high enough to prevent the other half of the metal piece that sits on top of the door from flying off if it's opened quickly. Hope this helps someone out!! If so let me know!

This is super easy to install. I did it without my husbands help ladies. The instructions are easy to follow but the video here on Amazon makes it so easy to know what your doing. It took me less than 5 minutes to install all three. They work like a charm. The only tip I would add to the instructions is to install this towards the end of the door where it opens (see photo). It gives it a little more stability to keep larger kids from pushing till it breaks. I got these to keep my 6yo out of certain rooms in the house. This works perfectly and I am going to have to buy another one.

I have a love-frustrated relationship with these. I had such high hopes when i purchased them. I have a 3 year old who won't stay in bed, so we lock the door with this when he's gotten out of bed several times. However, He can get out even with this lock. I had to modify it by adding a rubberband between the two pieces. Otherwise, he can shake the door for a few minutes, and it will unlatch. Also, you can only put the lock on in one direction. So, on exterior doors, it's easier to use from the outside. It is however, the best 'child lock' i've found for outside doors (except for maybe the deadlock put high on the door, but i don't want to drill another hole in the door), to prevent children from leaving the house without locking my husband out. But the rubberband won't work on these. Luckily, my child hasn't decided to try to get through the latches on the exterior doors. Also, when the door is unlocked, the piece on the door can fly off, as the door is swung open and closed. After it falls off, my 3 year old hides it. Sometimes my 3 year old is slamming the door closed and the sliding piece on the door gets stuck either behind the piece screwed into the door frame or else the edge of the door where the molding is. I now have a gouge in my molding, and the metal is bending. I've had it about 2 months now, and it's been bent back and forth several times, but still intact. I'm pretty convinced that if i had purchased the plastic version of this, it would be broken. There's a chance that you may not have these problems; i think my doors might be slightly thinner than standard bedroom doors; my house was built in the 1950s.

Don’t notice it, at the very too if door, and so very easy to lock and unlock from inside or outside. Critical safety solution. Grandmother uses it and loves it too. For the first time, my almost 3,5 year old son unlocked front door opener it and went outside alone. He was having a tantrum after long car ride. While I was rushed to use bathroom as tantrum went on, quickly as I could, he unlocked and walked out of our front door (luckily he was just sitting quietly on our porch!) still a horrifying situation. This product seriously works. At least one less thing for me to worry about. I like that it’s actually A metal piece screwed into the door. Not flimsy at all. Not wedged in or stuck on with “strong” tape. I Will order more for interior doors also because with my threenager’s tantrums, you just never know when you will need to secure a door. Genius invention! Now I want one for sliding doors…Please!!

Easy to install with just one screw. We purchased this for our teenage boy’s room so that he can lock it when he wants, and we can also open the door when we wants without having to use a key. Highly recommend.