RE: Big Brother house (on topic I promise) and electronic door locks

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

I have also seen this advice given, and would usually concur... however, in
my case, I have a couple of downstairs doors between the lounge &
dining
room t  the hall which are the original Victorian solid timber doors, they
are nearly 2" thick, and I can barely lift one as they are so heavy.
These
doors are considerably more substantial than either of my outer doors! -
ain't no way anyone's kicking their way through these! They also have very
substantial steel hinges on them, s  they're not going t  be kicked off the
hinge either. In this case I have fitted a substantial dead lock already to
one of them, and plan to d  the same to other when that door is
reconditioned (I had them both dipped some time ago, but have only got
round
to reconditioning one of them so far.) I got my local locksmith t  source
me
a several deadlocks that use the same key, so I will only have 1 key for
about 5 doors around the house.

I would have t  agree though, that I will >not< be bothering t  lock
any of
the internal doors that I have had to replace with new modern ones, - those
things are flimsy by comparison!

Paul G.


>
>I think you will find that the advice is usually NOT to lock interior
>doors.
>The reason being that once someone has broken in they aren't going t 
think
>twice about kicking a few doors down. You then have all that extra
damage
>to
>make good and probably more as you will have p***ed of the burglar.
That is
>of course unless you have steel interior doors ;)
>
>
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