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For the reason of beauty, people install an iron front door; At the same time, they hope this entry door comes with security and safety so that the owners can stay at home comfortably without worrying about any harm from the door, and hope the iron door can protect their home from damage, and even protect property from loss when they are not at home.
A safe iron door means the iron door itself does no harm to people’s health and is less easy to hurt people. While a security iron door means it can protect the home from damage when external forces attack the door. For example, people worry that the paint of the iron door is harmful to health and that the glass panel is apt to break to hurt people. These are the issues about the safety of iron doors; When it comes to resisting storm attacks or avoiding property loss because of thieves, it is a security issue.
Iron doors can protect your property; they are the hardest and most secure ones when compared with wood doors, aluminum doors, and fiberglass doors. Iron doors are robust and durable. They can resist not only the bad weather but also the bad guys.
Why are iron doors secure? Because they are made of strong materials, they are weather resistant, durable, and hard-wearing; even the glass of an iron door helps to improve its security, and their T-astragal structure prevents burglars from prying the doors.
Iron doors are made of much more robust materials. A 14 gauge metal scroll is standard, and a 12-gauge door offers perfect security. The lower the gauge is, the thicker material. Compared to wood or fiberglass, bad guys can easily break down these weak materials; but if you choose an iron door as your entry door, they will have a much tougher time trying to damage it and enter your house. An iron front door can deter potential thieves or burglars; they have the habit of searching for an easier and weaker target before breaking into. It needs to pay too much work and make big noises to damage an iron front door. So most bad guys will not try to force their way into your house with the protection of the iron front door and turn their eyes on another weaker target.
An iron front door will be critical to resist hurricanes and severe storms during the worst weather conditions. With its strong iron framing and more robust materials, a heavy iron front door can help you get through these worst weather days. It can prevent your home from being damaged by severe storms.
As time goes by, wood doors will be worse for more reasons; among them, termites are a headache for wood doors, while iron doors will not have this issue. The iron door can keep fit and a good look with minimal care; it will not be worn down by heat or cold. So homeowner is unnecessary to replace wood doors every few years. At this point, iron doors can be considered a long-term investment for security.
Steel T-astragal is a stripe of iron welded on the door leaf (in double doors)or welded on the door frame(for single doors). Its primary function is to seal the gap between the door leaves when the door is closed to get higher energy efficiency; another function of T-astragal is to prevent burglars from prying the doors open.
Most people will doubt if the glass panel of the iron door is secure enough or not because ordinary glass is easy to be shattered. Is the glass of iron doors secure? Unlike ordinary glass, the glass of an iron door is not so easy to be shattered; on the contrary, it improves security for an iron front door.
Most iron doors come with dual pane toughen glass which is relatively secure for an ordinary home. The thickness varies from 14mm to 25mm. 18mm thick insulated glass panel is the most popular. The thicker, the more secure. Of course, there are higher-rated resistance glasses with the same thickness for choices, a front door for the bank will usually use RC6-rated glass for security.
Compared to wood and fiberglass doors, iron doors with glass panels can offer broader and better visibility. You can only have a limited outside view through peepholes in wood or fiberglass doors, while you can see whole surroundings through the glass panel of iron front doors. You can ring the policeman immediately once you find any suspicious activity.
The glass panel is for light in and ventilation. With an independent and active structure, the door can keep closed, leaving some a barrier between the visitor and the guest. For example, some a bad guy act as a postman, try to enter your home, with an iron door you only need to open the glass panel to get post while keeping the door closed, this can stop the potential criminal.
14 gauge is the standard for common iron doors; 12 gauge material is much sturdier and more securer for iron entry doors.
Install heavy-duty deadbolt lock for the iron front door is a good choice for security. But we have a much more securer choice for you: a mortise lock. Bad guys can break the glass to reach in the deadbolt and open it from the inside without any keys; when it comes to a mortise lock, once it is locked, wherever the bad guys try to open it from inside or outside, it can not be reopened unless you have a key. That is to say, if the intruder attempts to enter your home, they need to do more things to damage the mortise lock but not just break the glass to open a deadbolt lock.
Leveling up the glass of your iron front door does not mean you must use bullet-proof glass; we can consider impact-resistant glass, which can resist storm attacks. The impact-resistant glass is made of a layer of laminated glass and a dual pane insulated glass; that is to say, we need to add a laminated glass based on standard dual panes insulated glass, hence becoming the impact-resistant glass, which is thicker, heavier and absolutely securer.
As the hinges of an outswing door are exposed, the thief can consider the hinges as a breakthrough to pry open the door. If you can use the inswing door, the thief is difficult to get a way to pry the door from the hinges.
You can install extra security measures to deter potential burglars. When they see any security cameras or motion-activated lighting installed, they will turn heads to find other easy subjects but not your home. For example, you can install a security alarm on your iron front door; whenever someone tries to break into your home, the security alarm will beep to deter the intruder. You can even link the security alarm with your phone through modern home security technology; the chime will alert you whenever there is any break-in.
Iron doors are safe. Let me break down your safety doubt about the iron door from 3 concerns: iron, paint, and glass.
Iron is a vital mineral to people’s health; Iron Poisoning occurs when a person swallows a lot of iron-containing vitamins. The iron itself will not release toxic substances to touch and poisoned air to inhale.
People asked this question consider the broken glass of the iron doors is apt to injure people; I am telling you that is not true. Nowadays, most iron door manufacturers apply tempered insulated glass for energy efficiency and safety. Once the tempered glass is broken, it will become small, round, and uniform pieces without sharp edges. The round practices have less chance of injuring people. I discuss more details about the safety of iron door glass in this article: “Are Tempered Glasses Of Iron Doors Safe?”
Paints for iron doors are safe without lead. And the epoxy primer for iron doors is known as non-toxic when dry.
People consider painting a hazardous material; because it is smelly and contains lead. It’s understandable since lead is a dangerous substance to people’s health. Fortunately, the paint on iron doors has been banned from containing lead for many decades since 1978.
The primary substance for primer is a two-part epoxy, which can stand the temperature from 0° Fahrenheit to 140°Fahrenheit after curing. Once it is curing, it becomes sturdy and releases no toxic air. HomeBest Iron Doors applied eco paint without lead; the chemicals of paints and primer are non-toxic.
Even if the paint and primer of iron doors are non-toxic, there is still the potential harm that occurs in some special situations. How to avoid it?
Homeowners increasingly care about its security beyond the beauty of an iron front door. They always require an iron entry door to prevent water and intruders from damaging their home, protect their property from loss and avoid bad guys’ break-ins.
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