Reinforcing Your Home's Front Door

Thank's to SurvivalBlog.com (one of the survival blogs I follow). for having this content readily available regarding this link I found. It has tons of great information about reinforcing the front door to your home.

Employee's for Government Agencies (Firefighters, Police, etc...), as well as many thieves and scum out there could use this knowledge against you. Read this post for a brief breakdown of the article that you should really look at and study a bit.

Click here (Reinforce door Story) for the link on the entire story regarding the reinforcement of your front door. This story was put together by Fire Nuggets, a firefighter related website and group.

THE BASICS

For years, the mule kick has been the preferred way to make entry on the typical residential front door. Kicking in a door was the cool way to force entry. The problem with this technique is that if the locking mechanism was reinforced in any way, the “kicker” usually wore himself out trying to get thru the door, wasting time and energy. A better way is to use the adz (or flat part) of a halligan in the jamb of the door and push the door away from you, putting the adz in the door jamb and pulling the halligan away from the door jamb. The force created at the top of the halligan (where the adz and point meet) will force the door open (Photo 1).

SECURITY DOORS

Sometimes we encounter a security door in front of the front door. These doors do not pose a big problem, if you understand how to force them. Understanding how these doors are made and mounted will greatly improve your ability to force them. The idea of the security door is obvious. It provides an extra line of defense for the homeowner as well as providing a secure way to provide some ventilation. The flaw of these doors comes in the manufacturing as well as the installation. There are basically two types of security doors: lightweight and reinforced.

The lightweight door is the easier door to force compared to the reinforced door (Photo 2).

This reinforced door, because of the additional reinforcing bars above and below the door handle, is not flexible and thus presents a more difficult forcible entry problem. It is important to recognize which door is which as soon as possible, since the reinforced door requires the use of the irons to force it (Photo 3).













Original: http://theaspiringsurvivalist.blogspot.com/2009/01/reinforcing-your-homes-front-door.html