![]() I intend to do the same thing with my safe room, mostly for guns and ammo storage. Messy and tedious work, but it can be done. Opening up the sheetrock and stacking brick, or better yet filling with gravel or sand, is the cheapest. Making anything even remotely bullet resistant is much tougher, and usually more expensive. It also leaves the person trying to get through the wall exposed to counter attack.Īlso note that even 22LR will punch right through a steel exterior door, not to mention the walls around it. Kicking out enough sheetrock to make it through an interior wall will also take a bit of time. Just look around, you'll be able to find something similar if you don't like the looks/features of this one.Īs was said, this won't be impervious, but will buy you some time, maybe even enough to deter the intruder if LE is on the way. $152 for the premounted door, say another $150 for a good lock set, and now all you have to do is install and make it pretty. ![]() You can get 30" steel exterior doors pretty easy. It wouldn't stop a bullet, but you could go buy surplus bullet resistant vests (good thing many cops are big) and hang those on the door. Hinges and material of a hollow core door may be a problem, but I've wondered if someone put two sheets of sheet metal and sandwiched the door, how much time it'd buy. If you've an extra dead bolt, it'll be near useless on a hollow core door, but it may discourage someone in a hurry. ![]() This is like opening a drawer in a bathroom when the cabinet is perpendicular to the door as a lock. I think it was Andy James' Shoestring Survivalism that showed how just positioning a chest of drawers so that it's against the wall, but with room to open the door and putting a chair there at night makes it very difficult to open the door from the outside, but easy to pull the chair and get out from the inside. I don't know if they still sell them there but they're always inexpensive.and from what I understand, even skilled thieves can't defeat them because they don't know the are there and there's no external wiring. In dollar stores they use to have alarms that sounded quite well if a door was opened. The heavy mesh is to slow breaching through the door without being too much weight. I don't know if the existing hinges would work, but you'd need to add more to the existing door lock, if it's a hollow core door. I bet someone with great skills could split a hollow core door and run a mesh inside it, or better yet, 3/4" plywood. I forgot it as I've not dealt with that in a while, but it's surprising that many hours of effort can sometimes only yield minutes of protection.but that delay may be valuable or critical, time to call 911 or better yet, become aware and draw your firearm. There's a term in security that covers the ratio in effort you put in to buy seconds or minutes against tampering or break in. To do it seriously, you probably need to reinforce the fame and get a solid core door or a steel one.however, we're talking budget and either bit by bit improvements or inexpensive is the way to go.
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