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

["Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx>]

I do not know if you remember the BBC's T morrows World program about
building a "smart house" presented by Carol Vordeman, they had
some lovely
locks in that building, the web site is
http://www.integerproject.co.uk/home1.html

I also recently read a magazine on this project and a few more recent
projects and one article mentioned these locks with programmable keys, I
could find the web site if required, they built some lovely economical
housing.

BTW one of you recently asked about sound proofing? there is also an
article
showing how they cut down on noise transmitting through a building, very
interesting, I can also find that if required? one tip I do remember is d
not have the skirting board touching the floorboards as this is a good
source of noise transmission.

HTH.

B.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kennethwatt@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 05 July 2001 23:14
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Big Brother house (on topic I promise) and
> electronic door locks
>
>
> Bugger breaking into your house!
>
> :-)
>
> K.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 05 July 2001 08:13
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Big Brother house (on topic I promise) and
> electronic door locks
>
> I have also seen this advice given, and would usually concur...
however,
> in
> my case, I have a couple of downstairs doors between the lounge &
dining
>
> room t  the hall which are the original Victorian solid timber doors,
> they
> are nearly 2" thick, and I can barely lift one as they are so
heavy.
> These
> doors are considerably more substantial than either of my outer doors!
-
>
> ain't no way anyone's kicking their way through these! They also have
> very
> substantial steel hinges on them, so they're not going t  be kicked
off
> the
> hinge either. In this case I have fitted a substantial dead lock
already
> t
> one of them, and plan t  d  the same t  other when that door is
> reconditioned (I had them both dipped some time ago, but have only got
> round
> to reconditioning one of them so far.) I got my local locksmith t
> source me
> a several deadlocks that use the same key, so I will only have 1 key
for
>
> about 5 doors around the house.
>
> I would have to agree though, that I will >not< be bothering t 
lock any
> of
> the internal doors that I have had to replace with new modern ones, -
> those
> things are flimsy by comparison!
>
> Paul G.
>
>
> >
> >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
> >t
> >make good and probably more as you will have p***ed of the
burglar.
> That is
> >of course unless you have steel interior doors ;)
> >
> >
>
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