One Vision Housing

28th September 2010

Keep it closed

It has been brought to our attention that a large proportion of recent burglaries have been through residents leaving doors unlocked – or perhaps thinking that lifting the handle is sufficient in providing forced entry.

In recent years, a massive number of private and rented homes have undergone external door replacement, and when doing so have chosen to replace external doors to their homes with uPVC or PVCu.

In many cases, the occupants had been used to their wooden doors being fitted with Yale type door locks, which locked the door automatically when the door was closed behind them, and could only be opened from the outside by using a key.

When they then replace them with a uPVC or PVCu door, they fail to take account of the fact that in most cases these new doors rely on the occupant actually physically using a key to lock the door, even from the 'inside'.

Unless these doors are locked with a key, the door remains insecure to a potential thief, who can easily open the door from the 'outside'.

Most of these doors are not suitable for fitting additional security devices to, after the door has been fitted, sometimes called retro-fit.

Some additional devices do exist, and most suppliers/fitters and manufacturers can advise you on what is available.
 

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