Guide to Secure your Exterior Doors

When you fortify your exterior doors, you impose passive resistance to deter intruders.

Criminal data science shows that if delayed by more than about ninety seconds, a burglar often leaves in search of an easier access point, or a different home altogether.

Many burglars use simple tools, such as crowbars and screwdrivers, to break into homes. If your front door is not strong enough, it can be easily forced open.

Criminals also say, “glass doesn’t exist,” when targeting a home – consider reinforcing glass within four feet of a door lock with security film.

Your best all around option for exterior doors and home security is a steel door with a steel frame.

Review our security vulnerabilities and recommendations below to better secure your home.

Don’t answer a knock at the front door without first confirming the visitor is known to you or expected by you. In 18% of reported home invasions, the resident voluntarily allowed the offender to enter; 12% simply opened their door, and the intruder forced their way in.

Criminals know that 90% of all residential door locks are easily defeated with readily available tools such as bump keys and crowbars.

Every convicted burglar surveyed said they knocked on the front door of a home before breaking in. Securing your doors is just the first step in a comprehensive plan to secure your home with passive intrusion resistance.

The average response time for police calls in the U.S. is ten minutes. The fastest police response average in metro areas is just under five minutes, and the slowest is just under one day.

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