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halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 1 day agoNew locks usually tell you what key set they are on the package… So you can buy multiple of the same lock to rekey an entire house.
While the locks can be rekeyed to thousands of options, the prepackaged options will only be a few sets.
asmoranomar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, and I think when homes are manufactured they just buy sets in bulk. One would think they would rekey them, but I guess not. I mean, even if they were, you should rekey your locks in any new home anyways - but even I fell victim to that because despite knowing this, no one ever does, and it happened twice. You think one would learn.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 1 day ago
They won’t bother rekeying, but they normally are buying enough that different sets are inevitable even if they don’t actively try.