The security storm doors can help harden the entry. It gives more time before breach. Even with a non-security main entry door, and it allows you to answer the door and talk to people with a locked barrier between you. Some are pretty nice looking.
I was going to install solid wood doors in one place I was for a while, they were very heavy, but time and situation didnt end up getting it done. They arent technically a security door, but would be very difficult to defeat. Home depot had them, other big box stores should also.
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“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
I'm interested in how they were entered as well.
I have a couple of sliding glass doors (elevated back deck and then a patio area). I use track bars and mid-door bars along with a couple of battery powder high decibel alarms.
I DO use double layered tinted security film, 3M iirc. I applied it to all the windows in my house as well as sliding glass doors.
I did test an old extra window I had by applying the double layered film and breaking it with a brick. It did pretty well, took some work to get through and didn't scatter broken glass all over my driveway (where I had it propped up testing it).
Any additional tips on securing sliding glass doors would be appreciated.
FWIW one of those sliding doors (patio) is downstairs (ground level bedroom that now is an exercise area). It's in the area of the garage foyer (opening into bedroom, washroom, bathroom, pantry / reloading room) at the base of my long stairs. I close that door (opens inward) and have it alarmed with the bar and wedge I linked above. And I set a motion detector towards those stairs at night. So at least there are layers of noise and inconvenience.
Of course there are battery/solar powered motion lights above and around those sliding doors... all around the house actually.
But if I can better secure the sliding doors, that would be a good thing.
We are in apartment with those crappy sliding doors.
Besides blocking the track, we've essentially "fenced" the inside of it to create another barrier to someone entering that way. Put Industrial type shelving in front of it, used metal mesh/grill type shelving secured vertically to the Patio side of the shelves. The vertical shelf mesh keeps stuff pushed onto the shelves from falling off the back but also makes even crawling through the shelf impossible without first removing it.
A strong person or two could probably push the shelf over after defeating the patio slider, but it would be noisy, take more than a little effort, and would still be difficult to walk over.
The lower level has few hundred pounds of my free weights and dumbbells on the lower shelves, just those plus weight of the shelf itself is over 700 lbs. The rest of the shelves has gf's craft supplies on it, but top shelf has totes with her supplies in it stacked to almost touching the ceiling. So if someone tries to tip it over those totes on top shelf will jam against the ceiling. So it would probably take rocking it a bit to dislodge the top totes to get it to tip over.
If it wasn't a rental could do something like commercial security gate https://quantumsecuritygates.com/retail-security/ or possibly more elegant, like decorative wrought iron gate on inside or outside https://www.firstimpressionsecurityd...ry/iron-gates/
Last edited by Dov; 02-11-2024 at 10:09 AM.
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