Front doors with bar handle

d0nkeyk0ng

Around the area we live in, I've seen a few composite and aluminium doors with tall bar handles on the outside. They have a key entry on the inside.


How do these work in terms of security and locking?

With a normal handle, you can push up to engage multipoints and lock the door. Do these doors have similar? Or is it just a simple sash-lock style lock?

stueyhants

I have one of these. The key operates the multi point lock without a handle. The only issue is the key is quite hard to turn and I suspect as the door gets older it will become harder. Looks nice though.

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stueyhants wrote: »

I have one of these. The key operates the multi point lock without a handle. The only issue is the key is quite hard to turn and I suspect as the door gets older it will become harder. Looks nice though.

C'mon give us a photo !!!

d0nkeyk0ng

stueyhants wrote: »

I have one of these. The key operates the multi point lock without a handle. The only issue is the key is quite hard to turn and I suspect as the door gets older it will become harder. Looks nice though.

Thanks for that. What do you have on the inside? Is it another bar as well? Or do you have a standard handle? How do you open the door when you want to leave the house?

In context, we're looking at an aluminium door and whether to have a bar on both sides or just standard handles.

EssexExile

Does it go with the house? I think the modern design looks good on a modern house but out of place on older properties. But I come from Essex so I have no taste.

missile

EssexExile wrote: »

…… I come from Essex so I have no taste.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

PasturesNew

I'd be more worried about the fact that you can't unlock the front door and have a handle to open the door to go in/out. How often do you "close the front door", but whoever is outside can just push the handle to get back in? If you're in/out, or one's out and wants to get in and the other's in and wants the door shut .... it seems unachievable.

If your OH were going back/forth and in/out of the house you need a door that can be closed without being locked... either to stop the door banging, or because it's freezing outside, or because you're going to/from the car with shopping and don't want next door's cat to sneak in.

Or if you're in/out and don't want to let the dog out .... or you're in the garden and the dog's indoors and you hear the phone ringing and need to get back quickly ... don't want to faff about locking/unlocking and having the keys ... to dash before the caller hangs up.

Or you're waiting for a friend/neighbour/family member - "I'll leave the door unlocked; just let yourself in when you get here".

Loads of reasons to have the door closed, but not locked. Can't see you can do that with a bar handle.

d0nkeyk0ng

Having had a look through the various brochures we got when looking at composite doors, there are magnetic, mechanical and electronic slam locks that engage when the door is closed. Winkhaus, AV2 and Heritage slam locks were the ones in the brochures but all appear to be designed for composite doors and very little for aluminium doors.

stueyhants

We just have small handle inside. It!!!8217;s called a thumb handle, just google it and you!!!8217;ll get a feel for what it would look like. I really like the door, it looks really expensive and modern. The long bar did add about £300 to the cost of the door but it was worth it.