New build Patio doors - Patlock?

WCN87

So my understanding is the patio doors are the easiest and most common point of break in. Having just recently purchased a Yale home smart alarm system I was also considering buying a Patlock for the patio doors, has anyone used this? Or know of a better alternative?

WCN87

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TheCyclingProgrammer

WCN87 wrote: »

So my understanding is the patio doors are the easiest and most common point of break in. Having just recently purchased a Yale home smart alarm system I was also considering buying a Patlock for the patio doors, has anyone used this? Or know of a better alternative?

French doors I assume? Do they have multi-point locking? If so, I'd just make sure it has a high security cylinder and not worry too much about it. If somebody really wants to find a way in they probably will. We have an Ultion Brisant cylinder in ours.

Chanes

I have a Patlock for my French doors and they do make breaking in much more difficult in that they lock the handles so they cannot be forced from the other side.

French doors are notorious entry points for burglars and the harder you can make it the less likely you will be an easy target. If you fit a Patlock and they want to get in they have to smash the entire door panel, maybe both panels too. Very noisy and very messy.

knightstyle

All the houses, 7 years old, along here have sliding doors on to a terrace with a public walkway 5M away.
Most of us have a pole or piece of water drain pipe which we lay in the inside runner of the doors so if the lock is forced the door still cannot be opened.
Simple and cheap!

WCN87

TheCyclingProgrammer wrote: »

French doors I assume? Do they have multi-point locking? If so, I'd just make sure it has a high security cylinder and not worry too much about it. If somebody really wants to find a way in they probably will. We have an Ultion Brisant cylinder in ours.

Yep French doors, very similar to the below

https://goo.gl/images/07LiFw

Weirdly both locks on each door require two a different key to open.

I have just purchased a home security system aswell which will have door contacts on the French doors

Chanes

WCN87 wrote: »

Yep French doors, very similar to the below

https://goo.gl/images/07LiFw

Weirdly both locks on each door require two a different key to open.

I have just purchased a home security system aswell which will have door contacts on the French doors

That's normal for them to have a different key for each lock.

WCN87

Do you know why that is?

greenface

Chanes wrote: »

That's normal for them to have a different key for each lock.

Its not . most French doors are lock a-like . no reason why they should be different keys. some French doors have just one handle and an internal clip system to open the slave . Patlocks are a good idea as an extra security measure but as said if they want to get in this just makes it a tad harder but...

ytfcmad

Chanes wrote: »

That's normal for them to have a different key for each lock.

No it isn't.

Chanes

ytfcmad wrote: »

No it isn't.

Well, OK, just me and the other people I know with French doors then. :rotfl: