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Many homes are broken into when the intruder smashes a window in the door or next to the door & reaches in & simply unlocks the door & lets themselves in. So why not have the locks at the bottom of the door to prevent this scenario from happening? Yes, it would be a pain to bend down to unlock your
doors - but isn't it worth it if it means protecting your home? And now they have remote keyless entry for your home - so if you had this technology you wouldn't even have to bother with bending over to let yourself in your house!
Keyless entry for your house
http://www.kwikset....emote+Keyless+Entry
This could work in conjunction with the bottom door lock [funkychunky, Oct 04 2004]
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This is prudent house design, but hardly a new idea. Home security books have been touting this since I was a boy. (Shortly after printing was invented, if you believe the rumours.) |
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This is a good idea. On our door, we have a deadbolt with a keyhole on both sides, so you have to have the key to lock or unlock it from the outside. This prevents the problem. It looks to me like it would be safer than your idea, because the person could reach down and unlock the door with a stick or special tool. This is sort of baked on a lot of the solid glass doors in use in a mall. If you look in the floor in front of the door, there is a socket where the bolt goes. The locking mechanism is in plain view on the kick plate on the bottom of the door. |
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Maybe I should have put my idea in the door section. I guess mainly my idea was that all home doors would work this way - the doors would have the precut hole for the knob at the bottom rather than the middle of the door. You are right though [fogfreak] - intruders would find a way to get around this & find some tool to use to unlock it anyway. Although, that would take them longer which increases their odds of being caught. |
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[fogfreak] Using a dual cylinder deadbolt (keyed inside and out) does add to security but you must be VERY disciplined to leave a key in the deadbolt on the inside when anyone is home. |
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I'm not saying that the type of lock Fogfreak described isn't dangerous - because it is - but if you leave a key in the inside lock while you are sleeping then a person would still be able to break in by smashing the window - reaching in & turning the key in the lock. I think the whole purpose of those locks is to prevent that kind of break in from happening because there is nothing for the burglar to turn/unlatch to get in. |
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Whether or not the double-cylinder lock poses a fire danger would probably depend in some measure on whether or not there was an alternate means of egress (such as a window) available. A window over some pricker pushes would not appreciably interfere with egress in case of a fire, but would make things unpleasant for a burglar who had to use it every trip. |
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I have read reports of intruders pushing a long stick/cane/pole with a hook on the end through the letterbox and using it to pick up keys lying around on a nearby table or ledge - as lots of people habitually do. |
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(just remembered that the USAian I related this story to, told me that letterboxes are not common in the States) |
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One of the beauties of the dual cylinder deadbolt is that it helps prevent a burglar from getting OUT of the house with anything of size. But the fire escape problem is why I mentioned the discipline of leaving a key in the inside cylinder when anyone is occupying the house. |
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As an alternate to the discipline of keeping a key in the lock, one might argue that all residents just keep a key around their necks at all times, like military dog tags. That of course also requires some discipline. |
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I keep a key to my front door deadlock on a hook in the lobby; leaving it in the lock would prevent a not-at-home resident from unlocking it. |
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