Home Security…Check those dead bolt locks
Your doors may be a weak spot in your home security perimeter. And you don’t even know it. Dead bolt locks…done!
Something that was brought to my attention, about my door locks that I never thought about. We have some french doors that we love, and have no plans to get rid of. French doors are the exit doors, usually going on the back of a house. The entire door is made up of small window panes. Very beautiful, and really let the glorious outdoors eek into your living space. We have dead bolt locks with the turn handle to deactivate the dead bolt on both of our French doors. I thought that these were sufficient. The point was brought up that a possible intruder can easily break one of the panes next to the lock reach in and unlock the door to enter. This can be done very easily without much effort. I know it scared me too.
Some options are to replace the doors with solid ones (not an option in my opinion.) Instead of having a turn handle dead bolt locks deactivation, have a dead bolt locks that is keyed on both sides. This will be a little more effort on your part. You have to get the key to unlock the door to go out. Oh yeah! don’t be stupid and leave the key in the dead bolt locks. You are not gaining any protection for yourself this way. It will slow the intruder down, because they have to make a hole in the door big enough to fit though. Another option that works in a similar way is a bar on the door. This is a bar that jams under the handle of the door and extend to the floor by a non slip pad that will bar the door.
The more effort that you make an intruder have to make to get in, the better chance they won’t even try. There are many things that you can do to protect yourself.
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