KidCo 4 Lock Set
by Kidco
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Baby Products Reviews of KidCo 4 Lock Set
Customer Review: How do you say "in love"?
Summary: 5 Stars
I am seriously in love with these locks. I have tried various locks in an effort to satisfy fostercare home lisencing to no avail. These did the trick, and I can see why...they are not only childproof, but also adultproof.
They are very, very easy to install, so I guess you could also say they are idiot-proof. My only negatives are that in my cupboards, I had to use the screws (included) to ensure adhesion since the catch was too large for the inside of the cabinet, but this was a minor inconvenience for me since I'd already had other latches screwed in previously. The only other issue that I had was that I had to be careful not to screw the latch too tightly otherwise the hook wouldn't catch on it, but I just loosened the screws a little and it was fine.
I was also able to use this lock on a draw, although it was fiddly and took a little more work to get it positioned correctly.
Possibly my favorite feature of this lock is that you can turn it off, so if your first child is old enough to not need them, but you know you'll need them for the next kid etc, you can leave them in place but flick a switch so the hook disengages. Genius!
Customer Review: Best Magnet locks out there!
Summary: 5 Stars
We have had these locks now for almost 2 years and the adhesive is still going strong! Before we moved into our new house( 2 years ago) we had the Tot Lock magnet locks and boy what a time my hubby had installing them and they left a huge hole in my cabinets. I knew when we moved to our new house I wanted the magnets again but, didn't want to deal with drilling holes my cabinets.After doing some research I found these from kidco and what an awesome product!!! I am now buying more since our newest addition will be crawling soon and I want all my doors locked. The only time the adhesive was an issue was when I was having tile put in the kitchen and my contractor, with much force, ripped open the door. He didn't know I had the locks on he just thought the door was stuck. Even then he had to use quiet a bit of force to get the door open. I had no damage to my door and I just reapplied the adhesive and all has been fine- that was over a year ago. I am also not very handy and I installed these in my kitchen and in my bathroom much to my husband surprise:) since he had such a hard time installing the other brand.Customer Review: Only Half Decided to Work
Summary: 2 Stars
I read the reviews and figured I'd try these out. After putting them all on properly so that they were lined up and stuck to the cabinet doors, two out of four don't work.
The little "arm" on the bigger piece that goes on the door is supposed to "fall" upwards, latching onto the smaller piece attached to the inside of the cabinet. On two of these parts, the arm didn't go up. They can lock in place, but the lock was NOT on, which would mimic the problem. In one of these two, slamming the cabinet door repeatedly would knock the arm into place, but there's no reason for having to do that. It's a pretty poor product where 50% of the units don't work properly. I'll be emailing Amazon to see if I can return just the two non-working ones or calling KidCo and seeing what happens.
On a different note, though, I also did not need the key. I have pretty strong magnets on my refrigerator, and they serve the purpose well (for the two that DO work). If you have strong ones, save yourself a few bucks. Or better yet, find a product that actually works the way it's supposed to.
Customer Review: Great product BUT...
Summary: 3 Stars
The four pack of locks is great - if only the company would CLEARLY note the keys are sold seperately.
This type of info should be printed BOLDLY on the FRONT of the product!!!
A key is included in the two-pack, and a phone call to the company was answered with the explanation that these were as ADD-ON's for existing owners.
Nice to find this out AFTER you get home and are installing them where the first point at which they mention "Key Sold Seperately" is in the last line of the instructions - AFTER you have installed them.
Customer service offered to sell the key to me, "or you could find a strong magnet and wave it around". Hmmm...
Good Customer Service would have offered a better solution - Great Customer Service would have offered to send a key out right away for the inconvenience.
Pretty good Product, poor labelling, so-so customer service.
Customer Review: Too complicated to install on drawers
Summary: 2 Stars
The instructions to installing the tot loks are a classic of brevity that creates confusion. But the actual process -- for a drawer -- is a complicated mess. Installing this on a drawer required lying upside down, looking up into the darkness of the drawer slot, and trying to make a pencil mark through the tiny mark of the non-permeable paper you are asked to adhere in place on the underside of the drawer slot, and being sure not to be so much as 1/8 of an inch off or (a) the wouldn't fit in place and (b) I would risk drilling a hole back out through the front of the drawer I was trying to secure. It was so complicated, we gave up and are going to use the self-locking drawer locks. By the accounts of other reviews here, they work well on cabinets. We wouldn't know, because we gave up with the frustration of trying to install it properly on a drawer.