The front doors of your home are arguably the main maintenance point for residential security, so it certainly wouldn’t help to reinforce them. Over 30% of burglaries in the United States utilize the front door as an entry point, and front doors pose the first barrier that potential criminals encounter. Here’s 4 ways to reinforce your front door as prepared by the experts at Golden Locksmith.
Reinforcing Door Jambs
There’s many products on the market available to help reinforce a door jamb – one example is the Door Devil. These prices range from around 80 dollars, but no matter what device you buy you want to make sure that the door jamb reinforcement has an extended piece of steel with a gauge on it that can provide strong reinforcement without causing the door to stick. Additionally there should be hinge protection that will provide door jamb reinforcement for the opposite side of the door jamb. The set screws given for installation should be around, or longer than 3 inches and strongly secure the jamb into the stud.
High Security Locks
A strong high security lock, along with metal slipcovers to reinforce the holes that fit the door locks will help protect your door. Try to use locks with solid metal rather than hollow metal hardware. Even stronger than a metal slipcover is a high security lockset that comes with anti drill protection of hardened steel pins and steel inserts. The bolts of the deadbolt should be cutting resistant, and a licensed locksmith, like our experts, can easily provide installation services.
Repin Existing Locks
If you don’t have enough money to buy a stronger lockset but still want to add additional security reinforcements to your doors, try repinning your existing locks. The standard pins in your lock will be replaced with security pins that can expertly prevent lock picking, and you can request additional services for the pin chambers like counter milling and/or threading that will make the additional security pins even stronger. Security pins provide protection for mainly lock bumping and picking, while hardened steel pins protect you from drilling.
Security Consultation
In order to really get proper security for your front door, you need to stay vigilant in ensuring that you have all the right maintenance. It’s not enough to add one extra security measure and forget about it. If you don’t receive proper maintenance from time to time, your installed measures can simply reassure your mind without actually providing real protection, as technology always requires maintenance. By asking one of our security experts for assistance in security consultation, you can make sure that all of your security devices are fully functioning, and that your property is truly protected.