industrial strength entry door?

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Hi all,I repair a number of low income rental properties.  In recent years we've experienced an uptick in tenant violence towards the rental units.  We are getting interior door "holed" and mangled and main entry doors are getting kicked in and the hinges occasionally get bent (maybe swinging on the door?).We've been replacing the kicked-in entry doors with the "steel" doors at Lowes and Home Depot.  Unfortunately, these light duty doors simply aren't strong enough.Anyone know of an industrial strength steel door for reasonable dollars?

Jimmy Gottrocks · Accepted Answer

Or you could stop renting to welfare democrats.

G.B. Cricket · Answer

I'm not the owner.  I'm a repairman and really don't like throwing money away on junk materials.  I do agree with your view on demonrats tho   :-)

Ed Pawlowski · Answer

Some slumlords like the Section 8 money though.

Ralph Mowery · Answer

Well in that case go with very inexpensive doors. They are only going to be destroied any way and let the owner pay you to replace them.

Look at it as buying Harbor Freight paint brushes to apply tar to the roof. Cheaper to throw them away than to buy the cleaner for good brushes.

G.B. Cricket · Answer

The cheap fake steel doors are a big part of the problem because labor is so expensive. I'd rather fix it once with a heavy duty door than replace it 2 times in 5 years.

I've got far more work than I can handle.

Alex · Answer

Impact rated, perhaps?

Clare Snyder · Answer

On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:49:00 -0500, Jimmy Gottrocks   snipped-for-privacy@gmail.cÈ¯m> wrote: Sounds more like repubnicans -" rules don't apply to us"

Clare Snyder · Answer

On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 21:38:59 +0000 (UTC), "G.B. Cricket"   snipped-for-privacy@no  Hang curtains instead??

Dean Hoffman · Answer

rbowman · Answer

Industrial strength and reasonable don't work well together. Then there is the problem that if the door is really strong it will probably tear the framing out when the cops his it with the ram.

G.B. Cricket · Answer

The police are not kicking the doors.  It appears to be a problem with family members locking each other out.  Same with the interior doors.No police reports are ever filed as far as I can tell.

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