Posted on 05/31/2013 8:24:25 PM PDT by Kartographer
It is imperative to harden the security of your home or business. We all want to keep the bad guys away from our families and our stuff – But, you should NEVER add any security measure to a door or window without thinking about how to get out. This is a big LIFE SAFETY concern.
For example, installing a deadbolt lock is one of the most effective ways to harden a door. What if the deadbolt you installed has a keyhole on the inside and outside of the door (double-cylinder)? Do you know where the key is and is it accessible in an emergency? Are you confident you or you children can grab the key, unlock the door and get out of burning house safely? I’m not. ALWAYS install single-cylinder deadbolt locks with a keyhole on the outside and a turn button on the inside to allow for quick egress.
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you do not install a deadbolt with a turn on it if you have a window on the door that can be smashed.
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Good post, people do need to be aware of these things. Remember it is imperative that you, or a person unfamiliar with your home, can get out if needed in case of fire or other emergency.
It is worth whatever extra money it will cost to get security that is also “safe”.
Well, you could do what we do and put keys in all the doors when we are in the house and remove them when we are gone. If someone breaks in while we are not home, they will have to break out to leave, if they have to use another exit from the one they came in through.
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Course it’s not a big fan, and couldn’t hold a candle to a box fan, but it’s compact and would be great in the storm shelter/basement bedroom when the electricity is out.
The article suggests you can’t get out if the window has bars. That is incorrect since bars are now made so the homeowner can open the bars and exit the house.
My front window has locks on the inside so the window can’t be raised. These locks can’t be unlocked except with an Allen wrench which I keep close to the window. Anyone breaking a pane of the window can’t reach through and unlock the window, plus there is a bar at the top of the window that goes to the window frame so that’s another reason the window cannot be opened and that bar has big red letters easily read from the outside that read “ALARM”. The window is in squares with metal strips between the window panes.
The window is also rather high off the ground outside so it’s not at the criminal’s easy level. He also has to get through the thickest hedge known to mankind to get to the window. He isn’t getting in that window, AND if he touches the window enough for it to vibrate, a loud alarm goes off.
He’s going to pick an easy window to go through, not mine.
Egress and ingress.
Here’s a tip from a gun writer, I forget which one.
He leaves a ‘honey-pot’, maybe a small vase or what-not box, with a couple bills sticking up.
He can see it from a window.
If he can’t see the bills, he enters carefully—forewarned & armed.
Great post.
Yawn. Thanks, mom. Moms make out country much safer.
Our first layer of security is storm windows and doors that use keep safe glass with security hardware.....
http://www.keepsafemax.com/en/downloads.aspx
The company that sells our exterior doors is hard to deal with, expensive and out of business here in the states to best of my knowledge .The builder of our home, whom we purchased it from the second owner had them installed on the front and back doors, the master suite and the mudroom entry for the garage..... Not sure where to purchase here in the United States but they are awesome doors.
http://www.steelsecuritydoors.co.uk/testimonials.html
I would like to add one of these doors on our shop and storm shelter but can’t find a US retailer.
The keep safe glass storm doors and windows is available on Larsen products storm windows and doors. Works very well.... Recent hail storm broke lots of windows in our neighborhood ..... Ours didn’t breakout but one did crack.
All this is normal looking security with safe egress for day to day living.
Our remodel a few years ago included new wiring I did personally using metal conduit versus just romex. It was clearly more expensive, our home is small and I wanted it as fireproof as possible.
Half inch drywall, doubled in areas like the kitchen, mechanicals room etc to keep the spread of any fire to a minimum. Sort of a poor boy fire wall.
My added security was a large eyebolt at the top of the door frames with a corresponding hole in the floor at the bottom of the door frame. A steel rod the lenght of the door is pushed up through the eye bolt and dropped down into the brass lined hole in the floor as a barricade rod. Two of these on each door.
Our fire safety is construction first. Second is awareness. Third is linked AC with battery backup smoke and fire detectors in each area of the home.
Four 25 pound fire extinguishers, 2 puppies , assorted personal defense firearms and a company monitored alarm system top off our safety at home.
We do make sure we can get out, but key on making sure we never need to if at all possible.....
In the late 70’s when I worked in Northern Ireland the homes of our top three execs had Lexan in the doors for extra protection.
Hearsay from my LEO friends - most burglars who force entry use a door other than the front door because the front doors have the strongest locks and structures.
Locks keep honest people out or in. Locks are not home defense.
If your house is filled with smoke you may die trying to put a key in your deadbolt.
Training, dogs, firearms and awareness are the real home defenses.
My house was broken into a year ago. They just kicked in the front door. Dead bolt, lock, and chain didn’t do a thing. The weakest point in a door is the frame. Popped it right out.
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What kind of hedge is it? I love pyracantha to plant below windows — the name means “firethorn” and it is nasty. No sane person will try to climb through it. When I lived in Tucson, there was a large pyracantha growing outside my bathroom window, and I used to leave that window open for ventilation while I was working out of town, sometimes for months. Nobody ever broke in.
The only drawback to pyracantha is that you have to prune it back once in a while, and you will shed blood when you do.
Oh yes, and it has nice-looking red berries in the winter, too.
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