Single Piece Garage Door Lock

[AndrewDouglasBird]

I have a 2-car garage with 2 single car size doors. They are single piece doors that lift up, not sectioned doors that roll up on a track.

Currently, the locks are just a slide bolt on the outside with a padlock (one per door). It would be nice to have a lock with a key that matches the house door locks and to just not have a padlock. What are my options? I've tried searching, but haven't really come up with anything.

I've considered building my own locks that would work off a center mounted turn-style handle (with keyed lock), but I thought I'd see what others have done first.

 

[Richard Cranium]

on my rental, My garage doors are single raise up doors, and they have a tee type door lock and the tee move the levers inside the doors to pin or unpin the door from the frame.
Also Ace hardware has pad locks that they can key to your door lock key.

 

[Oldbear]

Sound like you will need to fab up a mount for a deadbolt to slide into the door opening. They do make deadbolt kits for garage doors - but you're looking at some fabrication to work with your door style.

 

[kbs2244]

Get the center style re-keyed

 

[Hot Rod Grampa]

The same lock system works on one piece doors as well as sectional doors. A lock bar system with a keyed handle would work. You may have to drill slots into the track and possibly shim the bars for correct engagement, but it will work. They are available with a keyed alike feature.