hi friends it's Jeff with home repair
tutor and today I'm gonna share with you
how to reinforce an entry door and make
it burglar proof so why do you want to
do this
well hey anybody can kick open this door
and literally come in your house and
take your laptop your iPod your iPad's
in less than five minutes and there's no
way the police are gonna get here that
quick so anyhow that's why you want to
reinforce your entry door and feel a lot
safer about your home so let's get
started so here's the deal I got the EZ
armored door reinforcements kit and it
was a little bit pricey it's like 60 or
70 bucks at Lowe's but it comes with
three different kinds of shields along
with all the screws that you need to
make your door impenetrable and really
tough for even the Incredible Hulk to
kick in so let me show you those parts
before we get started here are the three
different kinds of shields you've got
the door shield you've got two one for
the deadbolt and one for the lock then
you have two hinged shields that go
overtop your hinges and you don't have
to remove the hinges at all and then the
final and most important thing is this
huge piece right here that is the damn
shield and it's got all sorts of
knockouts in it so you can line it off
with your jamb and the strike plates on
your jam so I'll show you how to install
all this stuff and they give you the
cool part is and they should give you
these screws for 60 or 70 bucks but they
give you all the screws that you need to
screw these into place so I'll show you
how to do that right now so before you
do anything you want to take the hinged
shield and you want to stick it in
between the door and the jamb and make
sure that it fits and what I like to do
because this hinge shield is the same
width as the jamb shield you just want
to make sure that it fits all along that
space and obviously it does here because
I have more than a some eighth of an
inch of space between the door and the
jamb and this shield is probably about a
sixteenth of an inch wide but do this
for your door if this doesn't fit if
this is too tight then maybe this
product isn't the right one for you and
you can take it back this is the middle
hinge okay and this is the hinge that
you want to work on you want to remove
these two screws that are closest to the
insulation strip here
so remove this one hey and first of all
guys look how small this screw is oh my
gosh it's like a half inch three-quarter
inch in length it's pathetic now this
one somebody obviously knew that they
wanted to reinforce this hinge because
this one's about two two and a half
inches long but nonetheless you want to
remove these two screws the next step is
to take a three and a half inch long
screw that they provide okay and screw
that through the hinge into the jamb and
into the supporting lumber behind this
Jam okay now they say to pre-drill but
since I'm using an impact driver I don't
need to do that okay the next thing that
you do is line up the hinge shield so
that the hole that is left behind that's
in the the hinge is revealed you take
another three and a half inch screw
alright and you drill that into place
such that it's flush as much as possible
the next step is to install two more
three and a half inch screws in the
hinge it one at the top and one at the
bottom now again you can pre-drill I'm
not going to but you can't pre-drill all
you have is a regular drill not an
impact driver
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make sure that screw is flush both on
the top and on the bottom next thing you
wanted to do is shut the door and make
sure that this doesn't prevent the door
from closing properly now one thing I
will note on the store because it is a
little bit cheaper is they did not
groove out a mortise such that the hinge
can sit inside that mortise and flush
with the door frame itself so that could
be an issue for you it could be an issue
for me here but let's see if it'll shut
so it's shot no problem I'm good to go
and I don't have to groove out a mortise
on the jamb either you just put this
hand shield over top your existing hinge
the next step is do the same thing for
the bottom hinge
again check to see if the door will
close boom it does alright alright so
now I'm going to install the GM shield
and what you need to do is note the
position of your strike plates here's
the deadbolt strike plate here's the
door lock strike plate okay so there are
many different knockouts on the GM
shield excuse me and so what you want to
do is make sure that you locate one a
knockout that corresponds with each
strike plate so look I've got this one
in this knockout that I can easily
remove with my thumb okay alright
alright so now that I know I have
everything lined up you want to shove in
the GM shield as far as possible so it
actually fits behind this insulation
strip okay and then what you do is mark
holes with a pencil alright so like so
like I'm gonna do here alright so I get
a hole here in here and up here and you
can pre-drill or use an impact driver to
get screws into those marked holes
instead of pre drilling I'm just gonna
put this screw in here maybe about a
half an inch backed it out okay then
what I'm gonna do is slide the jam
shield back into place and stick a screw
in here and again this is a three and a
half inch screw alright
okay there are two more spots on the
bottom here that need to be secured with
screws and there are two more holes at
the top of the jam plate again secure
them with two three and a half inch
screws and then once you're done just
check to make sure that the door closes
we're limited interference not bad not
bad
when you line up a strike plate on the
existing deadbolt or door handle make
sure that this slide lines up with the
slot on the ez armor plate okay
otherwise the door may not close
properly you can install these door
shields over the deadbolt and the
regular door lock here okay now before
you do that I highly recommend that you
test to see whether or not this can
clear the door jamb now what I did first
was I put the GM shield on with the GM
shield in place what you want to do is
slide this floor shield over the
deadbolt and see if it's gonna clear and
it doesn't in this case okay so there's
not enough room and I'm not gonna be
using these alright however that's a
last resort we can do is take out the
tiny screws that hold this in place both
these lock sets in place and use the two
and a half inch screws that come with
the EZ armor kit that were meant for the
door shield
okay so simply just take out these
screws okay take out both of these tiny
screws and install a two and a half inch
screw
do the same thing down here alright
that's it that's how you install the
easy armored or reinforcement kit I hope
that this video helped you out let me
know if you have any questions in the
comment section I'd be more than happy
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