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How to Burglarproof Your Doors
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Tags: Burglarproofing your Home, Saftey Percautions
Crime continues to be a worry to home owners. Taking proper precautions to prevent crime is a great way to keep you and your family safe.
| 1. | Get the right doors. Exterior doors should be fiber glass, solid wood, solid wood core (a layer of veneer over solid wood), or metal. Hollow doors are merely sheets of veneer over a cardboard core and can be broken with ease. Make sure metal doors are reinfoced inside, and have what is called a lock block. Otherwise, they can be bent out of the frame using a car jack. |
| 2. | Lock your doors. |
| 3. | Install deadbolt locks. |
| 4. | Locking the door with a keyInstall cylinder guards around the lock cylinders (the part where you insert the key). Burglars can sometimes remove or damage lock cylinders by hammering, wrenching, or prying. Protect these with metal guard plates or protective rings on both sides of the door. Install guard plates with round-head carriage bolts to prevent them from being unscrewed. Free-spinning rings around the cylinders will prevent the use of a pipe wrench to twist out the cylinder. Many locks come with these already, but if yours doesn't, you can purchase them. |
| 5. | Replace flimsy strike plates. The strike plate is the metal plate that surrounds the lockset (the hole in the door frame where the lock bolt enters). |
| 6. | Secure exposed hinges. Hinges should be on the inside of the door. |
| 7. | Fortify your frame. |
| 8. | Peeping through a peepholeInstall viewers. |
| 9. | Reinforce glass. |
| 10. | Secure sliding doors. The best way to secure sliding doors is to install keyed locks at the top and bottom. You can also make or purchase a Charlie bar that swings down from the door frame to the middle of the door to prevent the door from sliding. |
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