Are Your Sliding Doors Secure?

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Are Your Sliding Doors Secure?
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• Sliding doors are a fantastic addition to any
  modern home, but they can make your home
  vulnerable to intruders. Here are some ways to
  ensure that your sliding doors are secure
• Prevent and impede criminals by blocking the
  tracks
• The tracks that sliding doors operate on are
  quite simple, but they can be vulnerable to those
  intent on gaining unlawful access to your home.
  One way of preventing them from being opened from
  the outside is to insert a bar into the tracks of
  the door. The bar can be made of metal, wood or
  plastic and while you may find them being sold
  ready made at your local hardware store, they are
  simple enough to make if you have the tools to
  cut the bar to size.

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• Chain link the handles of your sliding doors
• If your sliding doors open in the middle, then a
  short and taut chain link would be best secured
  between the two handles to lock them together.
  When done, this would stop anyone from the
  outside from being able to force them open and
  separate them far enough to gain entry.
• If your doors open only to the side, then it
  would be more secure to have someone add a handle
  to the nearest wall so that you can use a chain
  in the same manner as described above.

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• Add an extra layer of glass
• A layer of glass film can be a useful addition to
  any doors, let alone sliding ones. They are
  readily available for purchase and can be fitted
  very simply, some come tinted so that intruders
  cant even see through the glass, while you are
  still able to look out from inside. Manufactured
  to withstand intense pressure, these glass films
  are used to help make sliding doors and other
  entry points more secure, and to protect them in
  the event of a hurricane or high winds.

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• Use an anti-jimmy door plate
• While usually used on normal doors, these can
  easily be adapted to fit sliding doors and can be
  purchased at any good hardware store. In much the
  same way that a bar locks the tracks of your
  sliding doors, this plate can prevent them from
  being raised out of their tracks, while being
  small enough to allow the doors to slide easily
  back and forth when you need them to.
• If youre unsure as to whether your sliding doors
  are compromising the security of your home, then
  talk to your local locksmith or commercial door
  fitter and retailer, to ensure that your entire
  home is as burglar proof as it can possibly be.

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