Re: Dog Door Security - Please Help

["Frank Olson" <feolson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Beachcomber" <not_real@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 01:25:38 -0400, "Robert L. Bass"
> <robertlbass@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> I have a dog door that medium sized adult can squeeze through.  Well
>>> the other night a medium sized adult tried to squeeze through it.  I
>>> woke up before the person was in the house and turned all the lights
>>> on.  By that time they had already jumped the fence.  In any event,
>>> this makes me very nervous.
>>>
>
> A dog door of the size you described is just an open way of entering
> the house and, in my opinion, an uncessary security risk.
>
> When I bought my house, I had just such a dog door in the garage side
> entrance.   I went to a local machine shop and ordered two identical
> 1/4" steel plates with twelve  3/8" holes pre-drilled into the
> perimeter.   Holes were drilled in the door to match the plates.  I
> put in steel stove bolts on the outside and nuts and washers on the
> inside locked down tight.   Then I painted both sides with Rustoleum
> (including the threads of the bolts).
>
> Problem solved.
>
> Beachcomber


I would have bought a new door.  "Problem solved"...  :-))