Residential Locksmith’s Definition Of Highly Secured Doors

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Your home’s first line of defense are your doors, so you need to make sure that they are highly secured. A residential locksmith have a wide range of skills and enhancing home security is among them.  Locksmiths know the various ways to enhance a door’s or lock’s strength or durability. Their extensive knowledge on various locks as well as methods of entries allow them to suggest and create a defense that would discourage and repel burglars.

Door Securing Tips From A Residential Locksmith

Wooden Front Doors

One rim latch or Yale lock is not enough to secure your door. You can add in a mortice lock to fit in your door. Two mortice locks and one rim latch should be sufficient to consider your wooden door as secured.   Position your rim latch at the middle and place your mortice locks at both the top and bottom. This allows equal distribution of any force applied to your door.

Add hinge bolts since it can lock into a strike plate whenever a door is closed. To make this tougher, have a Birmingham bar support the frame on the hinge side and London Bar support the strike plate.

Sliding Patio Doors

Find sliding patio doors that have a built in multi-point locking system. This provides your doors with a locking bolt at both the top and bottom. Some sliding patio doors can be lifted off their track so make sure to install a device that can prevent this.

French Doors

To be considered as secured, French doors should have a five lever lock in the middle, and mortice rack bolts at both the top and bottom. Regardless which direction your French door can be opened, you need to install hinge bolts.

uPVC doors

Although uPVC doors already have a built in multi-point locking system, it is necessary to fit more locks to these doors. Most uPVC doors have Euro-Profile cylinder locks that are often exploited by a method known as lock-snapping. To eliminate this door’s vulnerability, you can upgrade to an anti-snap cylinder.

While doors are obviously the first line of defense, many ignore the improvements that would make the doors sturdier and more resistant. The best professionals the can work on this type of home security are locksmiths. Aside from securing your doors, a residential locksmith can install various kinds of home security systems, surveillance cameras and motion light detectors. If you wish to learn more, you can call (206) 829-8169.