Security glass

Benedict

If glass beside the front door is laminated - could a burglar cut through it and put his hand in? All the advertisements show some guy with a baseball bat trying (unsuccessfully) to break the 6.4mm (1/4 inch) laminated glass. But they never show anyone with a Stanley knife?

well spoken man

Benedict wrote: »

If glass beside the front door is laminated - could a burglar cut through it and put his hand in? All the advertisements show some guy with a baseball bat trying (unsuccessfully) to break the 6.4mm (1/4 inch) laminated glass. But they never show anyone with a Stanley knife?

Easier to kick it in than to cut through it...

Cee-Jay-Cee

Possibly wrong section...Try the Burglary forum.

doozerie

A Stanley knife will not cut glass. It'll certainly scratch it, but you'll be there for a very long time trying to scratch it all the way through. Even (hand-held) glass cutting tools just score the glass, they don't cut all the way through.

The only laminated glass I've had direct experience of (I used it in internal doors) had a layer of plastic sandwiched between two panes of glass. If the glass is broken that design mostly stops fragments/shards of glass flying everywhere, it's a safety feature rather than a security feature. That plastic layer does make it a bit more difficult to make an actual hole in the glass, but it doesn't prevent it.

Darkglasses

Moved to Construction & Planning, don't think Cycling is the right place for this

Local mods, feel free to move if this isn't the right place.