Been trying to think through exterior door security on the new house my wife and I are building.
I have 3 doors I am thinking through: front, rear patio, garage. The garage isnt REALLY an exterior door, but the garage will have a window in it.
I was thinking I wanted to swap the dead bolts out to Abloy Protec2's... but I am running into an aesthetic problem in that we are doing 100% matte black fixturing throughout the house and the Abloy stuff isnt available in matte black. Not sure how to solve that as IMO paint is a shit way to do that on something like a deadbolt and will get worn way to quickly. Not sure if you can disassemble an Abloy lock and get all the bits powder coated. My other thought on deadbolts is Schlage Encode wifi electronic deadbolts, but I dont think it gets me anything really except a lighter wallet. The house comes with some flavor of Schlage dead bolts, which from what I can read are actually pretty well regarded.
These upgraded dead bolts would be paired with a setup like the door devil kits, but their current kit doesnt look great compared to their original kit. I think I have seen a few other kits online, but not sure what is good and what isnt.
Most of this is for the front door which is an 8' solid wood with glass window in it with a wrought iron overlay, which IMO really adds no security since the screws are external and could be removed in like 30 seconds.
My other thought for the front door is to skip all the security bull shit for it and get a Larson security storm door(my wife wants a storm door). Has laminated glass, triple frame lock, and reinforced frame. But part of me thinks that with this, all a thief would do is go to a window near the front door and bust it in... or one of the other windows around the house...
The rear patio door is out swinging glass door. Im not REAL sure how much I want to spend on this door as any thief is likely to just break the glass vs. removing the hinge pins. I will likely do security hinges though as they are cheap.
As far as the garage door to the house, I am getting it drilled for a dead bolt and will likely install a "door devil" type kit into it and be done with it. Its a steel door for fire code, so only really worried about the wood frame giving way, so I will reinforce that.
So as you can see I have "thoughts" on beefing up security, but then I have other "thoughts" thats its all a waste anyway since there are so many other access points at ground level. I have a plan for cameras already so thats covered. Will have an alarm with motion. Im not doing window frame sensors as I feel nobody pries windows, they just break them. And doing glass break sensors on every window was stupid money. Im doing extra motion detectors to get extra coverage as I feel thats a better way(and I may be completely wrong in my thought process on that).
I have 3 doors I am thinking through: front, rear patio, garage. The garage isnt REALLY an exterior door, but the garage will have a window in it.
I was thinking I wanted to swap the dead bolts out to Abloy Protec2's... but I am running into an aesthetic problem in that we are doing 100% matte black fixturing throughout the house and the Abloy stuff isnt available in matte black. Not sure how to solve that as IMO paint is a shit way to do that on something like a deadbolt and will get worn way to quickly. Not sure if you can disassemble an Abloy lock and get all the bits powder coated. My other thought on deadbolts is Schlage Encode wifi electronic deadbolts, but I dont think it gets me anything really except a lighter wallet. The house comes with some flavor of Schlage dead bolts, which from what I can read are actually pretty well regarded.
These upgraded dead bolts would be paired with a setup like the door devil kits, but their current kit doesnt look great compared to their original kit. I think I have seen a few other kits online, but not sure what is good and what isnt.
Most of this is for the front door which is an 8' solid wood with glass window in it with a wrought iron overlay, which IMO really adds no security since the screws are external and could be removed in like 30 seconds.
My other thought for the front door is to skip all the security bull shit for it and get a Larson security storm door(my wife wants a storm door). Has laminated glass, triple frame lock, and reinforced frame. But part of me thinks that with this, all a thief would do is go to a window near the front door and bust it in... or one of the other windows around the house...
The rear patio door is out swinging glass door. Im not REAL sure how much I want to spend on this door as any thief is likely to just break the glass vs. removing the hinge pins. I will likely do security hinges though as they are cheap.
As far as the garage door to the house, I am getting it drilled for a dead bolt and will likely install a "door devil" type kit into it and be done with it. Its a steel door for fire code, so only really worried about the wood frame giving way, so I will reinforce that.
So as you can see I have "thoughts" on beefing up security, but then I have other "thoughts" thats its all a waste anyway since there are so many other access points at ground level. I have a plan for cameras already so thats covered. Will have an alarm with motion. Im not doing window frame sensors as I feel nobody pries windows, they just break them. And doing glass break sensors on every window was stupid money. Im doing extra motion detectors to get extra coverage as I feel thats a better way(and I may be completely wrong in my thought process on that).