How to childproof a sliding glass door that can be unlocked and locked inside and out (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by Andrew1030@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My house has a sliding glass door as the main entrance and I need a solution to have it secure from tiny hands. My problem is it needs to be able to unlock and lock on both sides of the door so a pin drop or cross bar won’t work.

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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Put the lock high up?

[-] Andrew1030@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

If I’m able to build a landing/porch on the outside this is the easiest solution. But at the moment my stairs make it 1.5 feet lower than the inside floor which means it’ll to high on the outside but to low on the inside.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Ah. Sorry I missed that.

Remote control then. Getting into the house requires push of a button or typing in code. Getting out can be done with manual turn of deadbolt because inside you’re high enough to reach:

fire failsafe because you’ve got mechanical control when trying to exit even if electricity’s out
harder to copy your key because it’ll be a key fob or something
if you do lose a key you can simply de-authorize it instead of having to change locks
probably cost you a few hundred to a thousand for the hardware and install labor. Just my guesses at price haven’t looked into it

this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023

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