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Lock for a timber front door?

Blisterman · 2020-07-15 10:58:59

Having a new timber front door custom made for a historic house. Currently it has a nightlatch along with a mortice lock. Which seems pretty standard. But since I'm getting replacement ironmongery, I was wondering is there a better, more secure way of doing it? Should I be looking at a multipoint lock? Is there any reason…

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15-07-2020 11:58am

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Blisterman

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Having a new timber front door custom made for a historic house.
Currently it has a nightlatch along with a mortice lock. Which seems pretty standard.

But since I'm getting replacement ironmongery, I was wondering is there a better, more secure way of doing it? Should I be looking at a multipoint lock?

Is there any reason not to go for a lock which you need to manually lock fom outside? Obviously there's a risk you don't lock it. But there's a much greater reduced risk of locking yourself outside.

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