Re: Dog Door Security - Please Help

[not_real@xxxxxxx (Beachcomber)]

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