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Sliding Door Security Hardware: are you endangering your family with flimsy sliding door and window security? Fortify them without going broke.

A woman heard the doorbell ring in her Camarillo CA home, but no one was at the door when she went to answer. Then she found the rear sliding door open and a man was in her kitchen threatening her with a knife.

An intruder lifted a locked sliding door off the track of an apartment in Westboro MA, entered, found a sleeping woman and raped her.

How to Fortify Sliding Doors and Windows

Sliding windows and doors (a.k.a. sliding glass doors, patio doors, wall doors, or arcadia doors) usually have flimsy locks and frames that can be pried away. Reinforce them with one or more of the following:

1. Laying a sawn-off broomhandle in the bottom track prevents the door or window from opening. Lay it in the innermost track to help prevent it from being lifted out with a coat hanger from outdoors.

2. The frame attaches to the wall-frame with rather short screws. Replace the original screws with 4-inch screws.

3. Insert extra screws partway into the upper track – just far enough in to allow the door to slide back and forth, but with enough screw protruding downward to prevent the door from being lifted out of the track.

4. Close the door, drill several holes through the inner panel (where the panels overlap) and halfway into the outer panel, then slip a bolt into each hole. Slant the holes downward so the bolts won’t fall out if jostled.

5. Most patio-doors have tempered glass (3-7 times stronger than sheet glass) that resists a glasscutter or bludgeon. Consider replacing that with even stronger window materials described in Window Reinforcement.

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