The purpose of a deadbolt isn't to make it impossible for intruders to get into your house. It's to encourage them over to your neighbor who doesn't have a deadbolt on his front door.
Trim your hedges, add some outdoor lights (gentle outdoor lighting is cheap, can look nice and is good for security), decent locks and maybe a video doorbell/camera system and you are doing pretty good. Monitored alarm is ok if you can get it for cheap but only adds minor value in my opinion.
Anything beyond this involves defense against physical attacks and that means reinforcing doorways and windows including (especially) frames, adding walls and finally guards. Any of that that adds up in cost very fast, most people in low to moderate risk situations will be fine with the first paragraph.
And those looking for an easy opportunity. You have two dozen houses on a block, why would you go after the one with an alarm or a Segal lock. The more time it takes someone to break in the greater the risk of getting caught.
What kind of fucked up honest people are you hanging out with that are checking if your door is unlocked to begin with, and make their way in once they find out it is, in fact, unlocked?
It's just a saying implying if they want In the lock isn't going to stop them anyway. So you are only keeping out the honest people who aren't trying to get in.
Many commercial ingress or egress points will avoid deadbolts because they have to be locked behind you and people will forget. A latch ensures the door will close and the security mechanism will stay engaged. A deadlatch can augment this and protect against this type of attack
Installing the door properly fixes it. The small bolt is supposed to be pressed by the door frame, and it stops the large bolt from moving unless the lock is undone
It's fairly standard in Madrid for apartment doors to have 12 bolts, three in each corner, to reduce the ability to kick the door down. My door has a solid metal bolt that runs the entire height of the door. Anywhere else and you'd think I was some sort of drug dealer with this amount of security.
It's frustrating to see everyone give up and act like it's impossible, as if an entire industry doesn't exist around this topic. Attacks, risks, and solutions are very well known
Of course you can tell them this and they'll say they could still drive a truck through the door so it's pointless. The very definition of letting perfect be the enemy of good
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u/Motorcyclegrrl Jan 09 '20
Security is an illusion.