cracked junior
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My wife and I are buying our first house. We still have a couple weeks until closing. In the mean time we have been looking at home stores, hardware stores, lawn and garden stores to get an idea of how much everything is going to cost us, like new door locks, paint and paint supplies, lawn mowers and other house junk.
While looking at door locks. I was trying to find the double dead bolt locks, couldn't find any locally so will have to get them online. While looking at the door accessories I found the door kick plates and other plates, like ones that wrap around the door and the dead bolt and door handle go through them. Some had the dead bolt and handle in one piece of metal, others had them separate.
It got me thinking of how much strength do these plates add to the door? Are they worth the cost or are they just for looks? some were powder coated steel while others are brass.
The front door is solid wood door, has storm door that has steel grate on the outside. the rear door goes to the garage. then a door from the garage into the house. I know I am going get the door jamb reinforcement plates so the dead bolt has something other then wood to go into.
Thanks for any help or other ideas.
While looking at door locks. I was trying to find the double dead bolt locks, couldn't find any locally so will have to get them online. While looking at the door accessories I found the door kick plates and other plates, like ones that wrap around the door and the dead bolt and door handle go through them. Some had the dead bolt and handle in one piece of metal, others had them separate.
It got me thinking of how much strength do these plates add to the door? Are they worth the cost or are they just for looks? some were powder coated steel while others are brass.
The front door is solid wood door, has storm door that has steel grate on the outside. the rear door goes to the garage. then a door from the garage into the house. I know I am going get the door jamb reinforcement plates so the dead bolt has something other then wood to go into.
Thanks for any help or other ideas.