How to clean your security door?

The big question how!! In reality there is no quick and easy fix. We have found the best way to clean your door. It is a bit different that normal means we have found that the foam from those sprays that people use on their car tyres to keep them shiny works fantastic!! The simple dynamics of spraying on the foam on the door and as it expands it lifts the dirt in the places you cannot reach. Spray the foam all over the door let it stand for around a minute or two and then the best thing is to get a high pressure washer (karcher) to wash the whole door down. You will be very happy with the results it does work!! A lot of people get worried about the coating on the door, it’s no problem they are all powder cotted so this does not hurt or affect the paint it actually makes the shine. You must remember that your door acts as a filter, filtering the air that passes through it, it traps the dirt on the fly wire and it is very hard to clean. We find this method the best!!! Please put towel behind timber to stop water coming in.

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Sales traps

A door should come with everything. Simple as that!! Well the problem is that a lot of companies and or backyard operators manipulate people with misleading statements, this month free installation, this week only twenty percent off, if you sign today we will ?? Etc. I'm just trying to point out some of the gimmicks tricks and sales ethics out there; I've only touched on the very simple and easily recognizable sale pictures. There are some very tricky unethical people out there not caring if your door is actually secure. So buyer beware purchase from a reputable business, visit their showroom see if they even have one, how long have they been  in the industry, do you have any examples, where are they made and even if they do that or are they a contracted sales person to get your signature. This might sound harsh but I just want you the customer to get what you are paying for. Secure yourself and your home without getting ripped off!!!

Ventilation

With any home ventilation is very important not only for cooling your home it also makes life a lot more comfortable. The thing that most people don't understand is that ventilation needs a flow through affect to make it work efficiently; simply it needs an entry point and a exit point. This is why when you open your front door without opening your back door you will hardly get any air in, any flow through. We recommended that if you open a window or door on one side of the house and you open one on the opposite side to create the flow through, especially as a lot of people have evaporative cooling these days this becomes even more important, without the entry and exit points your home will end up feeling quite damp, nowhere for the cooler air to escape. This is why cross ventilation is very important to everyday living.

Secure your home when going on holidays

What we are going to talk about here is some simple tips, to make sure when you do go on holidays that when you come back everything is still there. First thing is that you should make your home look like you haven't  gone on holidays, set a timer for one to two different lights in your house to come on and off at different times. Make sure your neiboures know that you are going away and of them to keep a eye out for you also get them to take the bins in and out like normal, next make sure the mail does build up, this is a easy give away for burglars. Next have a family member call in every now and then this helps as the burglars don't know whose coming and going. Last but not least make sure you have locked every door and window and the keys are either with you or put away somewhere safe.

Secure all exit points

One of the most important doors to secure is the side, Landry and the door around the back. This is the one the burglars will target!!! Most people put the strongest door on the front but forget about around the back they end up making the back door a soft and easy target for the burglars. This is why we think you should make sure you have a really strong safetydoor fitted to back or side entry. Burglars like being hidden from plain sight that's why the back door more appealing to them. We even recommend sensor lights to be fitted down both sides of your home to help scare them away; it's all about making it as hard as you can for them. Don't be a soft target!!!

The humble security door locks

Locks have changed a hell of a lot over the years the latest inventions include parrot like beaks. So what this means is a normal lock the tongue comes straight out of the door now with the parrot beaks they actually hook, grab the striker plate making it a lot harder to jemmy. You can get these locks in a single system or you can even get them a three way locking system, all operated from the centre lock the new locks also have fire escape features which means you can lock the door from the outside and the snib on the inside still works to unlock the door. You can also turn the key all the way around and it double deadlocks the door, so if someone breaks in through a window they cannot get out through the door.

Galvanic corrosion

First of all galvanic corrosion is when two dissimilar metals come in contact with each other with the presence of an electrolyte (water, rain etc) will act adversely with each other and cause severs corrosion. Put simply two different types of metals should not come in contact with each other without an insulator between them or they will corrode. This why here a Michael's when we make one of our steel and aluminum combination security doors we put insulators between the steel and aluminum door frame to stop this from happening. The last thing you want as the customer is a door that starters to corrode two months after purchase, the process we use ensure it will corrode.