Securing your home.

[Shymatty]

Just a thought.

I have a little bit of welding experience from work. Having a stick welder and plenty of steel I thought about what I think is a decent plan for securing your home which I think would be a very good factor in overall security.

The idea is that you could manufacture, using very basic welding skills, metal frames that fit over windows and doors that have:

1) Metal bars - to prevent someone entering through that door or window
2) Metal sheet / mesh - to prevent someone throwing / dropping somthing through that door or window (such as burning material / molotov cocktail)
2) Both

However, practically, having these in place is going to raise alot of eyebrows with neighbours / family/ visitors etc.

So, if the frames were measured out and manufactuered they could have means of fitting via "thu-bolts" or a chemical anchor.
These are very cheap and very strong meaning, and would mean that there would only be half inch/ 1inch of threaded bar and a washer + nut sticking out of the wall on each corner of the window.

I'm sure with some imaninative work a border or some sort of decortation / curtain hook etc could be made to hide these or infact use the through bolts to mount somthing there in order to hide the through bolt.

Then in a emergency situation when you need to secure and "lockdown" the house.

You get you fittings from storage (in the garage etc) take the nuts off the bolts in the four corners (or whatever layout you have desgined) and mount the frame over the window / door.

Does any see any flaws in this plan? Perhaps certain windows could have a built in emergency escape hatch in the frame.

Even so I think you could very quickly have the downstairs secured relatively easily.

One down side I could see is that it would potentially kill me seeing lots of steel sitting in the garage for years "waiting" for a SHTF secenario.

I welcome you critisism,

Matt.

[tfish]

Could you create the frame so it can be attached internally and not externally? This would male your house look like any other on the street from afar.

[junmist]

what you are sugesting are called bugler bars and they have special locks so that you can get out in case of fire. Which you have to think of as you could have a fire start inside your house and are quite common so you would not stand out too much

[tfish]

I bought a few bits and bobs in Spain. Huge door bars that go across the full door and sit inside the wall casing.

Hotels often use them in ESP. Key lock located central in the bar. IV seen similar for windows out there.

100% against regs here but also 100% secure.