"Hollow metal assembly designed and manufactured to resist intrusion or forced entry in commercial applications" - tigerdoor.com
"Relates to prevention of door-related burglaries. Such break-ins take place in various forms, and in a number of locations; ranging from front, back and side doors to garage doors" - wikipedia.org
There are lots of type of doors. But usually residential doors frequency contain woods. And Consumer Reports Magazine found that may residential doors fail to protect the people inside. Due to its design and material use. Woods obviously cannot protect itself from stronger force. And most doors manufacturer try to offers woods door with varying type of strength.
Chula Vista Residential Burglary Reduction Project has summary from over 1,000 incidents. They learn many techniques that used to prevent burglary seems to have little effect on a burglary success. There are about 25% of success on the burglarized against low effectiveness techniques.
Anyway there are another techniques to protect the resident by using door security device. Such as Alarm, Deadbolt, Door strike reinforces etc.
It seems that security doors is not the answer. To prevent burglarized who may have to look all over around and see how much of risky around your resident. Is there light enough in night time? Where is the nearest police station? Can you trust neighbor? How many strong guy in your area that can help you when needed? Don't just trust only the doors. From the study above.. so we cannot trust it all.
But good news today we have a lot of product to solve these problems! Normally doors contain woods ..so get rid of them. Replace wood with steel or any type of material that stronger than wood and also stronger with all entire door system. These type of door come to offer new life style with more security. But as what have said.. don't trust just a doors. Let doors become your option for make your resident more secure. Make is better.
References :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_security
http://tigerdoor.com/door/index.cfm?curPage=glossary
