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So, have you ever lived in a house where gaining entry by breaking glass is limited to breaking the glass that allows a burglar to reach the deadbolt?

French doors. Patio doors. Any door with enough glass to crawl through once broken. Windows! Broken glass gives access to most houses, so why would a burglar with a rock limit himself to reaching through a narrow sidelight to open the deadbolt?

Kevin

If a BG wants to get into your home bad enough, he will. It just depends on how much noise the BG is willing to make in the process. I just assume make him crawl through a window instead of giving the BG easy access through a door. If he just intersted in your "things" then it will prove a little difficult to get them out of a window when he can't find the key to the deadbolt. However; if he is there to cause more harm than just theft...hearing a shattering window is more than enough for me to go into a room and make a new record on clip emptying.

Lucky45 wrote:

3. If you are worried about safety from burglary, make sure that your ALL LOCK STRIKE PLATES has 3inch or longer WOOD SCREWS into the frame. ALSO USE THE SAME ON THE DOOR HINGES.

NO THIEF HAS ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD NEEDED TO TRY TO KICK IN THAT DOOR AFTER CHANGES THOSE SCREWS. That is how they enter now, by kicking the 1/2inch screw with just break the jamb.
A structural engineer or anyone who took enough PHYSICS will tell you how much FORCE is need to TRY to SHEAR off all those 3 inch screw drilled into the wood frame next to the jamb on the hinge and strike side.

I agree with most of your post there Lucky, but the ONLY reason one should have a double cylinder lock would be if you have glass near the dead bolt of your entry door. You could run 6" high torque deck screws through your jambs and strike plates. But what does that accomplish if the BG simply breaks your glass and turns your deadbolt over. I admire firefighters and their total respect for human life. I agree that double cylinders can be dangerous and are not for everyone. I happen to have one and my wife and I are religious about keeping the key in the same, easy-to-find spot every time we have the key out of it. Our rule is if we are home or in bed...the key is out. Any other time, it's in the deadblot.

Nintylx wrote:I am in New home construction in Texas and a Builder can not put double keyed deadbolts in a home due to building code. Something about fire and having to have a key to get out. Kinda a catch 22 thing.

AGREED.
I subcontract door and window installers and I do not allow them to install double-cylinder when they are on a jobsite. I reccomend them to anyone, but I inform my customers that they must install them on their own. It is a liability issue (with everyone sue-happy now) incase some one can't find their key to get out in case of an emergency. Let me also reccommend the Larson Secure Elegance storm doors for your entry doors as well. You can beat the glass with a bat and it will not shatter out of the frame. Pretty expensive for a storm door, but well worth it.