My girlfriend and I live together in an apartment. We'll be buying a house as soon as we can, but it's looking like another couple of years where we are for now.
I'd like to make our bedroom a safe room where we can hunker down while waiting for the calvary if there's trouble. It's very large, has its own bathroom, and a walk-in closet. Its only drawback is that there is a large floor-to-ceiling window, but it's up on the third floor in a very visible location, so I'm not too worried about that right now.
When you enter the room, there's a little four-foot "hallway". On your right is the closet and the left is the bathroom. There's a long gun safe with loaded shotgun and tons of ammo in the closet and a combination pistol safe bolted to the bed frame with a loaded pistol and extra mags. We don't have a land-line, but we keep both of our cell phones next to us at night.
What I'm worried about is the door. It's an el cheapo hollow core that an eight year old could kick in. It's got a crappy push-button lock on the knob. I don't have full discretion over modifying the place, but I also don't have a problem doing something to keep us safer. I've done plenty of construction, so that's no problem, but I would probably like to do the simplest thing that's still effective.
I also wouldn't mind making the closet a secondary safe room. It's big enough for both of us to lie down in and has just the one door to defend.
Thanks a lot.
I'd like to make our bedroom a safe room where we can hunker down while waiting for the calvary if there's trouble. It's very large, has its own bathroom, and a walk-in closet. Its only drawback is that there is a large floor-to-ceiling window, but it's up on the third floor in a very visible location, so I'm not too worried about that right now.
When you enter the room, there's a little four-foot "hallway". On your right is the closet and the left is the bathroom. There's a long gun safe with loaded shotgun and tons of ammo in the closet and a combination pistol safe bolted to the bed frame with a loaded pistol and extra mags. We don't have a land-line, but we keep both of our cell phones next to us at night.
What I'm worried about is the door. It's an el cheapo hollow core that an eight year old could kick in. It's got a crappy push-button lock on the knob. I don't have full discretion over modifying the place, but I also don't have a problem doing something to keep us safer. I've done plenty of construction, so that's no problem, but I would probably like to do the simplest thing that's still effective.
I also wouldn't mind making the closet a secondary safe room. It's big enough for both of us to lie down in and has just the one door to defend.
Thanks a lot.