Door Security Hardware

How Door Security Hardware Can Make Your Home More Secure

If the safety and security of your home is a concern to you, consider the use of door security hardware.  This term encompasses a number of types of hardware solutions that will keep intruders out of your home.

Some examples of security hardware include hinge bolts, deadbolts, the Charlie bar, keyless entry deadbolts, and high security strike plates.  Not all of these solutions involve locks.  Criminals often gain access to homes by kicking the door down, so changing the hardware that supports the door can improve your security significantly.

Keyless entry deadbolts are one of the newest and most interesting entries in security hardware.  Previously offered primarily for commercial use, you can now buy them for your home and get some of the same distinct advantages they offer.  For example, these are programmed with software that allows you to grant temporary access for someone with a code and then change the code afterwards without affecting the main code.  This is ideal for situations such as having a cleaning crew come in or having someone take care of your pets while you’re on vacation. 

If you have sliding glass doors going out to a patio, this is one of the most vulnerable areas in your home when it comes to security.  One of the common methods of breaking and entering is called the “smash and grab,” where criminals quickly break glass doors and take whatever valuables are located right in that area.  Adding a bar makes the door significantly harder to compromise.  However, glass doors can be broken by a determined criminal so it is also helpful to add accessories such as security film.  This type of material protects glass doors and makes them shatter resistant.  Not only does it help protect against intruders, it will also protect the door from hurricanes and similar types of bad weather.

As you can see, a few additions to the door security hardware in your home can make a huge difference to a criminal’s ability to get in.  Most of these items can be installed in one day by a qualified contractor or a handy homeowner.  People who rely on the ordinary hardware that comes with standard doors to protect them are fooling themselves at best and endangering themselves at worst.  Motivated criminals know how to circumvent ordinary locks.  When another layer of protection is so readily available there is no reason not to try it.