Re: Dog Door Security - Please Help

["JW" <jweb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ditto on the new door...that plate and hardware must have been expensive.

"Frank Olson" <feolson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "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:
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>>>> 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.
>>>>
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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> I would have bought a new door.  "Problem solved"...  :-))
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