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Handyman Installation Of A Security Door

  
  
  

secrity doorAs a handyman, I've worked in some rough areas before...areas with lots of chain link fencing. Besides chain link, these areas all have security bars on the windows and doors. You may not live in a rough area, but you can take a lesson here, many residences have security doors on them to avoid a break-in.

It used to be that a security door was plain ugly...just bars and maybe some mesh on them. Very seldom was there any type of decorative features. You can get designs that make these much more attractive than in the past.

If you want to install a security door, there are fairly straightforward. You need to determine how you want the door to swing, either right-hand or left-hand hinge.

If you install the hinge on the same side as the door it is protecting, the door handles will hit when you close the security door. The nice thing about this configuration is that you it is easy ingress and egress without having to fight the doors. If you install the security door so that the hinge is opposite the home's door, the handles won't hit but it is strange and somewhat backwards to go from side to side to get into your house. Plus, when the wind is blowing just right, you will get bumped around fighting with the security door to get your main door open.

For me, I would rather have both doors hinged on the same side, and just reverse the lockset and knob on the security door.

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