How to protect your doors from hacking

One way to protect your housing from unexpected guests is installation and strengthening of the entrance doors. In this article, we will tell you how to do it correctly and what to pay attention to.

Table of contents

1. Strengthening the door frame and loops
2. Equipping the door leaf
3. Selection of locks and bolts
4. General safety rules

To work on installing and protecting the door from hacking, you will need: the product of wood or metal, metal locks, key plates, bolts, screws and an electric drill.

Strengthening the door frame and loops

• First of all, we fix the door frame well in the opening. Otherwise, all future work on the installation of locking systems is useless. Fixing is done using screws 80 mm long. They are screwed around the perimeter of the box and reach the wall frame. After this hacking the front door with a kick and even a scrap hit, it will be problematic.

• We hide the door loops visible outside. This is achieved by reversing the door. Strengthening loops is also necessary. To do this, a pair of medium screws on each side of the loop changes to fixed pins or nails made of hardened steel with two hats. All this is sold in stores.

• The plate of the keyhole of the door frame is made of durable metal and mounted with four screws 80mm. It is better to replace this plate with a galvanized tube with a length of 100mm.

Equipping the door leaf

• Suitable material for a strong door leaf is fiberglass, hard wood, metal. Hacking metal doors with a jack will be difficult if they are strengthened from the inside and have a blocking lock. Hollow doors, i.e. A leaf of veneer, glued on a cardboard box, is not suitable for entering the house.

• When replacing or installing the front door, its opening should be executed. This serves as an obstacle to unexpected guests and the possibility of quick evacuation in case of fire.

• It is undesirable external entrance doors with windows, although it is beautiful. Moreover, to ensure better safety, it is not recommended to perform window openings near the doors. The attacker can simply break the glass, and open the door lock from the inside

• The eye in the canvas, allowing to see guests in the other direction, will avoid unnecessary unlocking the door. It is installed with a special lid and an extended viewing angle.

• For additional protection of your housing in front of the main door, you can install a metal doorbell from the inside.

• If you have sliding doors at the entrance, they are strengthened by installing locks above and below. And the rod hanging down from the box to the middle of the door will prevent its unwanted extension. Such a rod can be bought in a store or do it yourself.

Selection of locks and bolts
 

• The castle and bolt is an indispensable attribute of any door that allows it to close it. An unlocked door can provoke a criminal for a robbery. Therefore, closing it to the castle should be a habit, regardless of how for a long time you leave home.

• A good door bolt should be of high quality without visible bolts, screws or screws. The minimum distance of its shutter from the door is 2.6 cm.

• A good remedy for additional protection while at home is a mortise castle, that is, a bolt that does not imply unlocking the door outside. It is visible from its outer side, but without damage to the door or its box it is impossible to hack it.

• On the castle larva, part of the key insert, protecting rings or plates on two sides of the door are installed. These details are attached with screws with round hats, which cannot be unscrewed with a screwdriver. The rings rotate freely around the larva, not allowing it to be twisted with a tube key. Castles with such bells and whistles have already appeared on sale, so we advise you to purchase them.

• Another version of reliable locks are products with one or two cores. Castles with one core are opened with the key on the one hand, and their equipment with two cores allows you to do this with two keys on both sides of the door. On the outer part of the locking plank of the castle, there should be a metal ledge to protect against its hacking.

• If you often forget to lock the door, install the lock lock. This is a type of lock that can be closed outside without a key.

• Hacking steel doors is often produced using master keys. Therefore, pay attention to the locks that are protecting against this dashing. For example, similar products of Medeco are reliable, but quite expensive. Decide here yourself.
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General safety rules

In addition to the above material, finally accept several useful tips.

• Do not hide the keys to the entrance doors of the house in plants, bushes or under the rug. Attackers will still find them. Keep the keys in yourself, and their duplicates for neighbors or on their territory. If your castle can be locked without a key, try not to forget it every time leaving the house.

• Installation of anti-scrap doors can puzzle the attacker. These are double doors with bolts and metal locks. They look like a gate and are considered safe doors. One drawback of them is unpresentable. They can be made with laminated hardened glass, which remains durable even in a broken state.

• For dark time of day, install a powerful lantern over the porch in front of the front door. This is an urgent recommendation. You can install surveillance cameras. Usually they scare away potential thieves. Record from surveillance cameras can be transmitted to your phone or computer. Reliable video systems are produced by Uniden. They can be bought at ebay.com or amazon.com

• Do not make a fortress from your home. In the event of a rescue service or firefighters, this will interfere with their work.

• No need to focus on safety. It is enough to take reasonable measures to implement it, without turning your home into prison.

That's all the tricks. Now you will know how to protect the door from hacking.

The victim of the crime, regardless of any precaution taken, can be every person. Therefore, you do not need to allow fear to manage you, and enjoy life. Good luck!