'Security' doors with no windows open to the outside of dwellings, cupelled with a steel frame, makes a formidable deterrent for someone to "kick" in.
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Only in the best neighborhoods in Macongo would you expect a nearly useless deputy to arrive in 30 minutes. Avg response time in older neighborhoods is running 2 hours 30 minutes now, if they bother to answer the call at all. There are several incidents reported where a B&E was IN PROGRESS and the 911 caller was assured a deputy would arrive shortly but NEVER came.Here in Macon its the same response time as well. We are like 150 patrol deputies short iirc.
Cool,dig a hole then fill it with trash,backfill and go on about ur day.It's not that we are short we just don't have any patrolmen in this little town. The closest police station is at least 30 miles away.
'Security' doors with no windows open to the outside of dwellings, cupelled with a steel frame, makes a formidable deterrent for someone to "kick" in.
2 words: German Shepherd...you'll sleep like a baby.
Houses built these days aren't built woof a damn. This house was build in 1906 and is solid as a rock. The brackets aren't going anywhere. The whole idea is to force the intruder make as much noise as possible in his effort to get in. I just wanted to make it as hard as I could for him to accomplish that. If someone wants in they will find a way no doubt. I just want enough lead time to get to a weapon which isn't going to be long. When I am in the recliner which is where I sleep these days due to back issues, I have a 357 within reach and a 6.8 AR-15 less than 5 foot away. It's will take him longer to get in than it will for me to get armed and ready. What I have added is a vast improvement over a door lock and a dead bolt. Plus if he breaks a foot trying to kick this door in he is already in a loosing situation right then. There is also another device I can attach a the top of the door that will add reinforcement. I do most of my sleeping through the daylight hours anyway but I will still rest a little easier knowing he is going to have a time getting through what I have already.I hate to harsh your mellow here but that door itself wouldn't hold up to a good kick. It's the mechanical weakness of the door that is where you're vulnerable, no matter how many locks and chains you put on it.
If the invader doesn't know about the bar, he might break his foot or leg, but those cross pieces and the panels will flex and break with a solid impact. If you had a more secure door, you'd also need to upgrade your hinges with inner lock pins, and some really tonkin' big screws securing the hinges to the door jamb - and maybe even beef up the door frame in general.
Those kinds of upgrades will result in you spending a couple years' worth of training ammo, and ruin the 'look' of your house (unless you like the Fort Knox Esthetic).
Save the money on the upgrade, buy more guns and ammo. If someone breaks in when you're not there, it's only "stuff" that they're going to get (and that bar and the other security measures you've installed isn't going to hold them up getting into an empty house). If you're there when they try, you'll be able to teach them the error of their ways.
As you say, they'll make noise getting in - but they'd do that anyway without you having that bar on there.