So, here's a stream-of-consciousness description of the project i'm working on.
After pricing 'inexpensive' <cough CHEAP> metal gun 'safes' (or some euphamism for said 'safes' like 'home security cabinet'), I've been dreaming, thinking, planning a less expensive but more effective option.
Imagine a closet with dimensions shallow & long.
That is, as you enter the closet door (1), you can touch the back wall (shallow) but both left & right are well beyond your reach (long).
Further imagine that one end of said closet is a dead end of sorts. At least two walls on one end are backed by regions not easily accessible by hack saw, jaws of life, sledge hammers, and the like. Those walls are brick or second floor outer walls, not easily busted into by a stoopid crack head.
Further more, imagine reinforcing those walls, on the inside, with 8 to 10 ga. steel plates.
(Translation: even after they crawl up 13 feet and tunnel past the brick, they hit heavy steel. Bummer.
)
Now, build a 4x4 timber frame between the 'back' walls of this cul de sac and the door into it (see 1), then hang an 8 or 10 ga. door (2) on heavy hinges on that frame.
When you're not home, a hasp locked by a good pad lock on door 2 will retard entry by parasites of any species.
Oh, did I mention? Closet door 1 is inside of an interior room guarded by an exterior, solid core door (3).
Yeah, I'm one of those that feels that important rooms - like bedrooms & offices - are worthy of protection by exterior doors, even in interior spaces. Not to mention the benefit of comfortable temperature control offered by weather stripping of that exterior door.
Spaces inside of spaces inside of spaces...inside of spaces...
If, no
when layer 1 fails (if they want in bad enough, and have the right skills, then it
WILL fail), then layer 2 slows them down. If they bust through it, then they hit layer 3, and exclaim, "
".
Just thinking out loud here.
Ideas welcomed. Then it becomes a community project.
Nem
