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Re: Big Brother house (on topic I promise) and electronic door locks


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  • Subject: Re: Big Brother house (on topic I promise) and electronic door locks
  • From: "Mark Hetherington" <mark.egroups@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 13:06:23 -0000
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--- In ukha_d@y..., "Mick Furlong" <dorsai@d...> wrote:
> Mark
>
> I think you will find that the advice is usually NOT t  lock
interior doors.
> The reason being that once someone has broken in they aren't going
t  think
> twice about kicking a few doors down. You then have all that extra
damage to
> make good and probably more as you will have p***ed of the burglar.
That is
> of course unless you have steel interior doors ;)

I can see the logic there I was thinking along the lines of slowing
the process down but I guess once they are inside the risks t  them
deminish and they can take all the time they want anyway.

My doors are the rather pathetic excuse for wood that door
manufacturers seem t  have discovered and insist on building them
from.

Need t  find myself a house from the era when they took pride in
building rather than the "supermarket" approach that housing
companies have increasingly apodpted.

Mark.




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