billdeserthills wrote:If your parents want real security I would pick Assa or Medeco. Sure, both of those could be picked, but in truth, if someone is going to spend hours messing around your house, they will find a way in.
Have to agree with Bill. If some criminal has the skill needed to pick a Medeco, or far more difficult, an ASSA Twin, then they are not going to waste time on a normal home. As a general rule, criminals don't pick locks. They will try a brute force method such as 'foot picking' the door open.
On the flip side of the coin, if you have vastly superior looking locks and have the place looking like Fort Knox compared to the place next door, the criminals may well think that your place must be loaded with valuable things to steal. If the places next door are using Kwikset, then Jimu's recommendation of Schlage might not be too far out of line.
But if you are going to spend the money on a high security lock, then be sure you harden the rest of the house... doors, door frames, film on the glass and so forth.
Criminals are far more likely to try for an easier target. If you make your home even a little bit harder to get into than the house next door, they will probably go next door.
If you want to split the difference, you can get some of the better Schlage locks like the:
Schlage Primus: (Click the link to see an article on Schlage Primus at Lockwiki).
and this one, the Schlage Disclock:
OK, OK, OK. That last one is not a real product. It is a Schlage body with an Abloy Disclock KIK cylinder. Just keeping you on your toes.
Gordon
Just when you finally think you have learned it all, that is when you learn that you don't know anything yet.
