Panic room

[ForgeCorvus]

You could also fit an old fashioned door bar.

Couple of different modern examples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaCZgIalZz4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... r0N3gmtQTo


Or a brace-bar like this

[jansman]

Interesting topic.Looking at this from the point of view of my own home,there is a simple solution.Our solid wood stairs door opens out,not in,and locks from the stairs side.It would take some forcing.That is after the downstairs alarm has gone off,or we have pressed the panic alarm on the fob,or the dog most certainly starts yapping.By this time,I have unlocked the shotgun cabinet at the back of our bedroom...after ringing plod of course!

Made me think about home invasion though.

[HomeHardener]

Some great responses on here!
Il try my best to reply to what I’ve seen.
Luckily for me once we move in it’ll only need to be the master bedroom I need to worry about, baby isn’t due until November and I’m sure it’ll be in our room for a good while, so only one room to fortify.

My back up plan is the bedroom window, although there’s no room below so I need to have a think about how we’d exit (I figured a climbing rope round the bedframe is first choice but at 5 months pregnant I don’t think the Mrs will agree)
This option would obviously be beneficial should we need to escape from a house fire, god forbid.

In terms of doors, I am thinking to just purchase a security door, I can have it made to match all the existing house doors and it’ll mean I don’t need to worry about installing any locks or hardening the frame/hinges etc.

I was going to take the fire door route but there’s so much strength lost once you start fitting locks etc.
Not to mention by the time I buy the door, locks, hinges, ‘London bar/Birmingham bar’ as mentioned, I’ll be entering the price range Of the ready made security door.

Chances are we’ll never need this safety within the house but, better to be prepared and not need it right!

[Yorkshire Andy]

Fire escape ladder might be better

I've replaced the sill hooks with Rawl eyes into the brickwork about 2 foot under the sill fortunately our place is old grade 2 engineering bricks which ain't going nowhere quickly.... as our wall was too thick takes my weigh with ease and I'm not skinny

[Yorkshire Andy]

Like that with climbing carabineers with locking gates

[Nurseandy]

You could also fit an old fashioned door bar.

Couple of different modern examples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaCZgIalZz4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... r0N3gmtQTo


Or a brace-bar like this

I've similar to the old fashioned door bar but more basic - just a length of 2*4 for each external door cut to correct length and 4" screws already through them ready to be driven into door frame if need be. Not the strongest and they are out in the shed but it comes back to how likely you think you're going to need them.