“Smart” door locks

If you decide on a particular type, I'd look for at Lock Picking Lawyer on youtube, see if he's found any obvious flaw in it ...

Yeah, it’s kinda a scary just how poor many locks are but in practice most housebreakers aren’t that smart. ;-)

Living in a good neighbourhood is a huge help as well of course.

Tim

We have 5 lever mortice locks, chosen to satisfy Insurance company requirements (BS3621).

Assuming insurance companies (in particular the one you are insured with) will accept smart locks, look for the BSI Smart Residential Locking Device Kitemark.

We have 5 lever mortice locks, chosen to satisfy Insurance company requirements (BS3621).

Assuming insurance companies (in particular the one you are insured with) will accept smart locks, look for the BSI Smart Residential Locking Device Kitemark.

My burglaqrd aviiuded the unlocked patio doors and jemmied open a window

Perhaps.

Modern door locking includes throwing a minimum of 4/5 hooks/bolts along the full length of the side of the door. Some also have additional bolts top and bottom of the door.

It's not so much about picking which requires some skill but often about the easy ways about getting around any security the manufactures may have included.

One second bypass of an expensive lock like then one you are enquiring about

I tell my insurance company nothing (and they ask nothing) about the type of locks I have fitted ... I don't have any "valuables" as such.

Yes, it was the magnets to bypass the solenoids that I had in mind.

when our house was broken into - creating smashing glass and timber

-our next door neighbour (who was the local Neighbourhood Watch secretary) head the noise and decided it was me cutting down a tree - a midweek afternoon when I was working.

In my case 5 minutes with a battery operated saw would get into my house without any need for keys.

The locks are there to satisfy the insurers.

Real security is impossible to achieve: At best one can have cameras everywhere and hope.

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Vaclav Klaus

You would be surprised. I totted up my CD collection that was stolen and it was over a grand

Add in a TV and microwave...or one or two decent works of art...

-- “it should be clear by now to everyone that activist environmentalism (or environmental activism) is becoming a general ideology about humans, about their freedom, about the relationship between the individual and the state, and about the manipulation of people under the guise of a 'noble' idea. It is not an honest pursuit of 'sustainable development,' a matter of elementary environmental protection, or a search for rational mechanisms designed to achieve a healthy environment. Yet things do occur that make you shake your head and remind yourself that you live neither in Joseph Stalin’s Communist era, nor in the Orwellian utopia of 1984.”

Vaclav Klaus

Sure the lot adds-up but no flash watches, or works of art; at one point I did declare a couple of bikes but if they were nicked now I doubt I'd bother replacing ...

Yeah. That's true. Most expensive thing I ever had nicked was a ride on lawnmower from a shed

Second most expensive was a tank full of heating oil...