Make a Front Door of Steel
High Security Entrance for Ultimate Impact
Typical run-of-the-mill exterior doors for your home don’t offer maximum resistance to any sort of assault. For homeowners in very high-risk security areas or for people whose lives put them at a higher level of personal risk, a home security system should be high level and include steel security doors.
Applications for steel security doors include:
- High-risk security areas or neighborhoods
- Hurricane or tornado prone areas
Residential security doors come in materials other than steel as well, with specially treated core and exterior materials that make them more durable than their traditional front door. But steel remains a rock solid choice, and the material a symbol of might and strength.
Types of Steel Security Entry Doors
If the notion of “steel entry door” inspires the image of an old-time greasy bank-vault or safe door you’re wrong. Today’s modern steel home doors are high tech and decorative. High impact steel can be customized to fit the style of your home, even painted with a range of decorative colors. No one has to know it’s steel.
Types of steel entry doors:
- Solid steel entry doors, exterior residential front door
- Steel storm doors with security glass
- Steel screen doors
Steel Doors as Part of a High Level Home Security Strategy
Steel doors alone on each entryway of your home don’t a home security system make. If you’re considering steel doors this level of resistance is just one component in a much larger home security plan that could include:
- Perimeter resistance devices like steel security gates and fences, keyless door locks, fingerprint or biometric locks, window locks and windows outfitted with impact-resistant security glass.
- Perimeter detectors, such as exterior motion detectors and floodlights, door and window sensors, and glass break detectors.
- Interior monitors and detectors including motion detectors and video cameras.
- Hazard detectors that include smoke and fire alarms, carbon monoxide detectors, and water and heat sensors.
- Visible deterrents, including exterior lit security signage on your property and windows; possibly exterior security cameras and door and gateway video intercoms.