How To Strengthen Your Door Frame

We ll replace an old deadbolt with a quality grade 1 deadbolt.

How to strengthen your door frame. This is a front door security bar that goes along the height of the door on the hinge side to strengthen the frame. Reinforcing the door jamb and reinforcing the door frame another simple yet effective way for homeowners to strengthen their doors is for them to work on reinforcing their door jambs. For double door or french doors add heavy duty barrel bolts available at lowe s at the top and bottom of the fixed door to help prevent the door from being blown in. Then use the 2 1 2 inch screws provided with the ez armor kit to secure the door shields.

Slide the door shields directly over the deadbolt and latch. Full view patio or french doors should be protected with shutters or panels. The second way to reinforce the hinge side of the door frame is with straps that screw through the jamb into the frame and wrap around the back of the hinge to keep the jamb from blowing out. A door jamb not to be confused with a door jammer is the vertical part of the door frame that holds the door in place.

As you might imagine these are not the easiest things to install since they will have to be inlet into the jamb as well as needing the trim removed. 4 a london bar is a metal bar that goes along the height of the door on the lock side of the door providing effective door frame reinforcement. This is the very first thing all homeowners should do to strengthen the door s frame. The first and best step to reinforce your front door is to simply replace the 1 2 inch screws with 3 1 2 inch screws.

Then we ll replace the deadbolt door strike plate with a four screw strike box and faceplate attached with 3 in. Make sure screws are long enough to go 1 inch or more into the framing.