Top tips for a fully secure front door

But the front door can also be welcoming to unwanted guests too, who would take any point of weakness on your door and use that as any opportunity to gain easy access to your home.

And it’s important to note, in most cases of burglary, the perpetrator gains access to the property through the front door, making it a prime point of focus for opportunists.

So with this important fact in mind, how can you ensure your front door is kept secure? Well, the home security team at Yale are here to give their expert advice on how you can protect this importance part of your home with some easy top tips to improve your front door security.

A home security audit

Sometimes it pays to think like a burglar. When you’re considering what home security measures are needed to protect your home, it’s important to think of the ways in which an opportunist would look to gain access to your property and any obvious weak spots.

Particularly when it comes to the front door, we would recommend taking a close look at your front door as a whole - do you think it would protect against a range of attack methods?

A sturdy, durable door can be quickly become an effective deterrent and offer a significant level of protection to this weak spot. But what you also need to consider is your door hardware and cylinders, as these provide a heightened level of security for your home.

Paired with a sturdy door handle, a high-quality cylinder offers a significant level of protection, with many burglars opting to use lock-snapping techniques to force entry to a property. A cylinder from a reputable, trusted retailer, such as Yale, will provide the best line of defence for your home, so it’s worth researching the best brands out there when making a purchase.

And although it sounds obvious, remembering to keep your door locked at all times is another essential step to provide the best level of protection from your home and beat off the opportunists.

It’s all in the design

When you’ve made the necessary changes to ensure your door offers the highest level of defence for your home, you can then add other, more design conscious, elements to make sure your door also looks good in the style stakes.

Obscure glass is an effective design feature to not only add interest to the front of your door, but it can also help to encourage natural light into your entrance and, most importantly, ensure no opportunists can look in through the glass to scope out your home. If they can’t investigate around your home from the front door, they will often move on to an easier target where they can easily discover what’s going on inside a property.

Other door hardware features that can step up your front door protection include door chains, letterplates and letterplate restrictors, all handy tools to prevent opportunistic attacks and ensure your door isn’t an easy target.

All eyes on the door

To step up your front door security to the next level, you need to think ‘smart’. Many opportunists will opt to choose a home that is vacant at the time of the attack, so it’s important that you have visible security measures to stop them from targeting your home.

A smart front door camera is the perfect solution, allowing you to monitor your home from anywhere at any time via your smartphone. A front door camera allows you to monitor whether you have any guests drop by to your home - whether that be a delivery driver, door to door salesman or your best friend - and be able to talk to them via your smartphone.

And with the added benefit or motion detection, this handy functionality means if anyone decides to turn up to your home uninvited, you can quickly make your presence known, without even having to move a muscle.

With an array of solutions out there to help you upgrade your front door security, securing this vulnerable part of the home is even easier than you may think. And with the help of Yale’s security portfolio, you can also have the added benefit of peace of mind that you’re investing in security products you can trust.