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Originally Posted by john rogers View Post
On all our outside doors I replaced the jam material, many years ago with oak and a 1/4 inch thick embedded plate of steel for the dead bolts to latch into. This should prevent anyone short of a gorilla from breaking the door open. I forget the brand of locks and dead bolts but they have held up for well over 20 years.
This. A lock is only as good as the door and jam holding it in place.
That said, you probably have a nice big window right next to your door. Home invasions are easy enough with a cinder block through a window. Rethink your security in terms of automatic alarm and self defense until the uniforms arrive.
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