This croatian door is not the european standard, but I have a friend with a front door like that. It is way more better looking and has to more bolts. The lock is VERY safe. It is freaking expensive if you lost your keys to get in! 😬
@@rickardstrom9305 Virtually all of our doors in most of Europe open to the inside -- there are some exceptions for public buildings (escape route) -- and we don't have that problem. That very first door is just bad quality. -- and as I have got to know from others, in some areas, especially in Scandinavia, doors opening to the outside are mandatory for several reasons.
@@McGhinch I assume there are different building standards then. My own front door opens outwards towards the stairway and if anyone feels like kicking the door in they have to take the whole frame with it. That said it isn't a perfect solution either since the hinges are available to anyone trying to break in.
Just watch the scene from RED with Bruce Willis, where they break into a room in the CIA, with a door that has a code that can't be cracked, he just punches a hole in the wall next to it and pushes on the cylinder.
This door is called Anti Burglary Door. They also have (at least my door does) soundproofing that reduces noise from outside or inside up to 40dB. The thickness is about the same (as in the video). They have a wide-angle peephole, so you can see outside well. Mine have 4 main bolts and 2 more bolts horizontally at the top and bottom (not vertically, as in the video). Instead of the safety chain that the old, classic door had, this door has a built-in rigid mechanism that replaces the safety chain and is impossible to remove. Doors closed with this mechanism only open so far, that you can put your fingers in the opening. On the hinge side of the door, there are fixed, non-moving pointed bolts that go into holes in the door frame, when the door is closed. Thus, when the door is closed and locked, it is "anchored" in the frame - on both sides. We can truly say that they are like vault doors. And most importantly: you also get a card (the size and appearance of a bank card), without which they cannot make a copy of the key for you. 😎
@@hubertnnn Then what's the point of such a door - if it's according to you - so easy to get to the key? Only a scumbag or a crooked locksmith could have a mindset like yours.
@@lydia5232 First you need to get access to the key. Second, even with that card a scumbag could still make two copies (one for himself). And third, lawyers are expensive, most people will not risk having to deal with them, but some will, and a friend wold not care, you wouldnt sue a friend right?
@@hubertnnn I have the door, I have the key. Wrong! Here, in such a case, I do not know "friends". And like I said...your way of thinking tells me everything...and you definitely wouldn't be one of my friends.
Whan i was in the us first time i went to a really cheap motell and.. the door you could literally see throw the crack. And even in the chrep as flatt i lived in then had dubble rubber seals and back and front deadbolt (but not up amd down)
Not quite 😂. At least my interior doors don't squeek and the handles and latches are much better. But the door itself is of similar structures as the US interior doors, being something like MDF frame and sheets, all covered in thin wooden "foil". The cavity inside could be empty, but I opted for sound dampening infill. My exterior door is 96 mm thick multilayered wood with 3 latch mechanism (top and bottom in addition to standard latch), plus one flat locking pin, as is common here. The door has triple panes windows as well as the fixed side and window above the door, which are one piece (1 product). It has multiple sealing strips and it has the same R-vakue as my triple pane windows. So far (15 years) no issues. And yeah, even my interior door have a recess all around except bottom and same goes for integrated sealing.
The video could probably go on with the window frames. They will probably fit with the solidity of the front door. Otherwise that front door would be overkill and make little sense as burglars would lift the window with a crow bar. This kind of castle door is not common in Europe. Doors (and house structures in general) are more solid than in US though. How doors and houses look vary with each country. Each country has their own construction regulations and building habits. You immediately notice when you cross a border because the roads are different, but also the houses changes within 1 km.
This is only partly true. Even in Europe, wooden-paper buildings are being built today, but they still have good quality security entrance doors with steel reinforcement (also windows and other elements in the house). But of course, the door opening must have an appropriate construction. In Europe, better quality houses are generally being built and it doesn't matter what they are made of... But for an example. When I changed the entrance door in my apartment, slightly above standard quality, they have a steel frame filled with noise insulation, safety certified, their price was $1500, roughly equivalent to the average monthly income here in Czech Rep. And if you want to build a smaller house with 4 rooms, 120 m2 of floor space, it will cost an estimated $300,000 to $400,000 (in the normal standard), plus you have to buy land, but where the price varies quite a lot depending on the location. In desirable locations it will of course be more expensive than the price of the house. In villages, land prices are significantly lower. I don't have good English and I'm lazy, so I spoke the text and automatically translated it, so I apologize for the inaccuracies.
@@IWrockerAlso can't forget that main entrance doors wary for country to country in europe. It also depends if it's a house or an apartment and even that depends if the building is old or relatively new. Some Apartment buildings use a solid knob on the outside and the lock is below the knob and you open the door by turning the key and holding it turned while pulling on the door to open it.
The building I live in (France/Centre Loire) has been build in 1808 (50-70cm thick stone walls) and fully renovated about 50 years ago, the doors are almost indestructible, 2x3mm steel plates sandwiching a 6cm plain wood frame, 4 hinges and 4x1cm pins (1 top, 1 bottom and 2 on the side) plus the handle latch and lock with quarter circles all around the frame so that you can't fit a crowbar. So, yeah... you won't enter without heavy duty equipment. And that's if you manage to pass the ground floor door that is an 180 years old 12 cm thick wood door. That said, that's almost mandatory if you don't want to pay a fortune in insurance fees.
Berfore upgrading to European doors, you guys need to replace the wall with something more stable... Just imagine the weight of such a door and then someone slams the door in an angry manner.....
America: Slaps a sheet of metal onto flimsy wooden door to strengthen it. Croatia: Slaps a sheet of wood furnishing onto Vault door to make it look less intimidating.
you dont know what you talking obout....sheet of wood is just from outside if you want to change color or get damaged.... inside is metal sheet 3-4mm thick and every 30cm is steel bar that go from 1 side to other
@@skymaster2911 I think you are lost in translation. It's pretty ironic, given that you accused him of "don't know what you talking about. " Turns out, you were the one who didn't know what he was talking about... xDDD
I live in Sweden, most apartment door here are thicker to not only be harder to break but also to contain a fire. Each apartment is a fire cell to prevent the fire to spread as easily.
@@KjellEson Fördelarna med att de öppnas utåt är för oss bara självklart. Lätt att komma ut vid brand, speciellt om man kryper på golvet. Mera plats på insidan för kläder och skor. Vid slagregn rinner vattnet på utsidan och inte inne på trösklar, Sedam är det omöjligt att sparka upp en dörr. Då är balkongdörren enklare, för de kan ofta gå inåt.
@@zetectic7968 lol I know. I mean come on really. It’s no wonder they are all afraid and have guns. All they need to do is sort the walls doors and windows.
I'm in the UK our doors are mostly plastic with metal frames that also have their own dead bolt system that bolts around the door, the police need to attack the hinges to stand a chance when they show up with a knocker
Ireland here, five or seven point locking systems are the norm here, I have not seen a one point lock on a door in thirty years. As a retired firefighter we were trained to break out the center panel if there was one on the door because you are not getting through the locking system.
I forgot something on the stove years ago. it was probably the most expensive rice of my life but the fact that even the cops had problems getting in was worth it
We usually don't have a "movable" door handle on the exterior door in Germany. You cannot pull it down. You can only put a key into the keyhole plus turn it around while pushing the knob to open the door.
As a Scandinavian, our doors usually have a lever handle that you push down to open and pull up to attach dead bolts. These dead bolts are usually hook shaped with one at the top and one at the bottom of the door, so it's not just center locked. You have to attach the dead bolts before you can lock the door. Usually the lock itself is not a dead bolt that intrudes the frame, but an internal locking mechanism in the handle. When the door is locked, the handle can't be pushed down.
German here: I once opened the door of my neigbour with a card, it broke in the process (the card), but the door was open (she had a meal cooking, locked herself out and was compeltely in panic) On another occasion, I opened the door of another neigbour with a thin piece of aluminium sheet. Took 2mins 😎
Turkish here. If you get locked out of your apartment (because our doors are also handleless on the outside like some other people were saying for other countries), the locksmiths usually show up with old cards or xray films. If the gap in the frame is large enough to fit either, the latch gives way if you slide the "tool" over it. But also, I don't think I ever went away or went to sleep without turning my keys first either.
It's relatively easy to do with older European doors, not so much any more. When I was in highschool a friend kept forgetting his keys. My ID was ruined...
@@doppelT_066 That works because the door was accidentally close, which means it was not locked with key, which means only the beveled latch bolt is locking the door, not the (multiple) dead bolts.
The issue isn't really the door, the issue is if they used doors like ours where we build buildings with proper structural integrity to withstand storms and bad weather like it's nothing, they would have a door installed that is sturdier than the rest of the building in which case it servers no purpose. Even if they can't benefit from our "standard" exterior doors, I'm amazed they almost use internal doors as external, I at least expected some form of securing not a basic wooden frame and some silly lock on a door that looks like you could hit it three times and the hinges would fail.
I live in Hungary, in a late '70s commi block. Our door cost something around 200 bucks, it have a 5 cm metal core + some structural stuff and a decorated outer layer which is also metal. It's came with a metal frame, it's have 2 different lock with two "stage" you can turn the key and the inner lock twice so the locking mechanism goes twice as deep into the frame, it's locks on all side in 15 points in total.
Ha... Coincidentally... I have just seen a hilarious video today of Yank coppers trying to break through a front door that opens outwards. No big deal I thought...until 3 guys ran out of puff taking turns using their sledge hammer and crow bar. All that happened is that the outside door handle had fallen off. The suspect must have imported a Finnish door.
As a european that migrated to america. The electric here looks like its made for a hobby project for children. The doors and locks look like theyre only there to keep the dust out. But they have burgler bars everywhere infront of single layered glass windows.
Now why.. in the name of hell.. would you willingly migrate to the USA.. a country with poor education, poor healthcare, EXPENSIVE HEALTHCARE, no workers rights, (no guranteed paid vacation, paid maternity or paternity leave), 0 protections for parents and jobs. No unlimited sick days, you dont get paid sick days either.. Like.. I would geniunly want to know why anyone would willingly move to such a crappy place
@@dillon17 I never set foot in the usa. U dumass I said america. Usa is only a quarter of the America's and its the most degraded part also. I have no problem with them rednecks I would fit right in but ammerica is way bigger and has way better places to live than the usa.
@@dillon17 for healthy people with skills that are in high demand it's a great way to work a few years, get lots of money and get the hell out of the US again with that money. the secret is leaving before the bad situations catch up to you (bad health, crime, getting children that then need to get "educated" in a US school)
Pretty much 80% of the exterior doors here are locking more than one side of the door, so the bolts on top and bottom are basically a given. 3 months ago i changed the exterior door of my apartment. Went with a highly reputable german brand and their mid-class option. With the installation it was €3200 - not super cheap, but not ultra expensive either, kinda in the middle. It's a solid wood door, reinforced with metal rebars horizontally and vertically, with metal case shell on top of that and then MDF on top of the metal as decoration and additional sound insulation. Fully metal door frame and again covered with MDF on top for better sound insulation. The door wing itself is 15cm thick and it alone weighs 164kg. The door has the highest rating for security, but my favorite thing are the locks. It has 3 bolts on the side of the handle, like the one shown in this video, but also has 2, not 1 on top, 2 at the bottom and 3 more on the side with the hinges. It trully is like a vault door and feels great when opening and closing. When the guys installed it, they fixed the frame to the concrete with 18 anchor bolts in total. There is absoluitely no way to pry it open or bust it. There are also much cheaper option, like under €1000 cheap, which also work quite well and have mutliple locking points, but i don't like to go for the cheapest possible and always aim at the mid price class. Pretty much all of my neighbors have the same brand and class of doors and all of them are extremely happy with their purchases.
Also, here in Austria, the amount you have to pay to insure your Appartment against burglar depends on the door you have. It's cheaper to upgrade your door, than pay more for insurance for the rest of your life.
America is always worried about home intruders so they keep guns. Meanwhile in Europe, there are no home intruders because it takes hours to break into a house. .
Here in Slovenia EU, the front door to the house is a 6-12 point lock. The door is made of aluminium, with 2-3 insulating seals around the door (against water and air). There are aluminium reinforcements and crossbars in the door panel, horizontally and vertically (against burglary), and all filled with high insulation foam. The door is screwed on all 4 sides with 25 cm steel screws, with 4 to 8 screws on each side. The thickness of the door is approximately 10-12cm. This burglar-proof door costs €1500 including installation. Glass (glued P5A) can be added if required, or fingerprint unlocking for 700€. And widows 12cm, glass P4A, RC2, PVC, 😊
Seriously. We have a door like that, and I can hardly imagine trying to bust that thing down if the lock breaks. At least I could disassemble the lock from the inside, but from the outside you'd have to bring a propane torch or an industrial grinder if you wanted to get in.
@@SeanMirrsen Thats the whole point. If you lock yourself out you will smash through the bulletproof windows, not through the door, the door is unbeatable.
In France the 3 points door lock, completely metal door and metal frame became the standard like 10-20 years ago. All house insurance require 2 points lock at minimum. What we call here "security doors" will have like bolts on the 4 sides of the door, multiples bolt per sides, and anti lift system to prevent to try to break it by a lever method.
At this point I guess that it's an European standard, I live in Italy and it's the same. The security door from the video is average here, non renovated old houses may have worse, but we are talking about the first half of the 20th century... My grandparents' house has a metal door and it's from the '60s...
Hello, I live in Belgium, my front door is the same as the one in the video but with some twists: I don not have a handle at the outside, just the keyhole and instead of the bolt going up I have 2 extra vertical bolts: one going up in the wall and one going down in the floor. My door is made of aluminum, no wood at all and it's about 2.5 inches thick. Like your videos, keep it up man!
@@Fridelain I promise to you, I can kick those two American doors open. And I can propably also slam them open with a bit of momentum with my body weight. Our inner doors come thicker and with better locks than these "front doors" and I've kicked some of them open just for fun, when I renovated my house years ago. I assume I can sell European inner doors to the US - those will be safer than the two joke doors shown in the video.
Cops in the US use door breacher, heavy metal tools or instead of that the cal. 12 shot gun with door breacher ammo. No cop runs against the door with his body.
My door in Europe doesn't have an outside handle.Just a stationary knob so u can move the door when u go out. Insert ur key, unlock, 1/4 turn more of key and voila the door opens
Can confirm, most of the more secure ones forgo the external side handle which makes it even safer, about 1/4 turn and you hold the resistance of the closing lock like a handle through the key itself.
13:05 I don't know what they do down there in Croatia but at other places the bolts are distributed along the vertical edge of the door. They aren't in a tight group like this. What's the point in four bolts so close to each other? Doors usually come with three, four or five bolts and more than a single lock. Also let's see if she's got an eyehole on her door.
Не знаю как в Европе, но вроде по российским стандартам такое близкое расположение штырей связано с защитой от тупого удара кувалдой или чем то схожим, также такое устройство сложно распилить.
European windows also tend to be quite heavier and sturdier, with double or more panes of insulated glass. Seems to be in big part due to environmental regulations, better isolation = less energy used = less pollution. But of couse that has other benefits, they don't break easily, you save on energy bills, and they also isolate from noise pollution. I remember one American saying the silence in a European home, after closing all the windows, was quite the eerie experience to them. Add to that the metal rolling shutters many have, and you can be in complete darkness and silence lol.
In the US a lot of the building codes and standards are driven by the new home industry. We have dozens of multi-billion dollar companies whose business is developing new tracts of housing on never before developed land and they spend a lot of money making sure the laws they have to follow are cheap to follow.
11:55 there are kinds with deadbolts also on the bottom, also the 4 Deadbolts on the side are a simple setup. The technically better setup is 2 bolts around the lock and 1 at the top and bottom so you cant push in the corners. Not that the simple setup wouldnt hold, just that the more "complex" type can withstand a bit more brute force.
We in Germany have door types such as T30, T90 etc. This stands for the time it can resist against fire (T90 = 90 minutes). Depending on where the door is mounted there are different legal requirements.
I think it's similar to here in France. Fire resistant depending on the floor, the evacuation routes, etc ... But you also should have anti theft resistance regulation too, for both the door, the door frame, the way it's attached and lock. I forgot American doors have that much gaps everywhere.
Im swedrn wr call them R/I 30-120. The one is resistante to fire the other is resistant to force. If you have a indoor garage you have to have a 30 minite peotection and for a front door in a highrise its 60 minutes. There been.a few cases where the neighboor flatt burned down and the one across the hallway didnt norice untill the fire fightres crusshed there window to "save" them.
Can confirm that we also use a similar standard in sweden, generally known as security doors i.e. 60 min or 120 min resistance to fire depending on type of door, between 5-15 minutes resistance to breaking & entering (meaning active time drilling, using hammer, crowbar, angle grinder, sawzall and so on) also meaning actual time getting in would be close to an hours work... Only two drawbacks: They´re pricy (starting at €970:- or $1100:- upwards toward €4400 or $4900) They´re heavy. Average weight is starting around 100kg or 220 lbs, so you probably wont be moving / installing it yourself 🙂
The advantage of even having a T30 door in the US: after a fire, you could reuse the door for your next house, because the burnt down house was T2 and the doors would be in pristine condition after the fire 😂😂
Hi, im from Croatia and my job is designing those doors. Those in video are Italian made, and medium quality. I can give you few specs, doors thickness is between 68 and 78mm (anti theft or fire resistant). Doors core is profiled galvanised steel straighten with three vertical profiles. Whole doors are filled with stone whoolor acoustic foam. Front and back is 7mm laminated MDF. Sides are powder coated galvanised steel. Door frame is also galvanised steel, profiled and material is 2mm thick. Door frame have two parts, inner and outer, inner is bolted to wall and outer is bolted to inner one. Every door have 3 gaskets, resistant to fire and smoke. Fire resistant Door also have red or purple sheetrock 10mm thick (red is fire resistant, and purple is fire and water resistant). Locks are story for itself. I will just say that you can not drill trough it.
two of my favorite findings about the differences between Europe and America is that burglars in the US spend 3-5 time longer observing and staking out a house than their counterparts in the US. This is because guns. Secondy In the US burglars who find out someone is home will abandon the crime completly more than 85% of the time unlike Europe which is iirc 30% of the time. In Europe the Burglar will still cut the crime short but also still try and take something. This cut and run has become so broadly culturally accepted amongst criminals the US that law enforcement states that if a break is occurring and the burglars are aware people are home then they are not here for your TV and Jewelry but for you and are experiencing a home invasion.
7:12 and you can see from here, that the door has been forced open already, as the wall has a puncture where the latch was wrecked out while the door was locked.
17:11 “You can either use a key, which we don’t; we just use a passcode.” Have you tried the third option, holding a strong(-ish) magnet next to keypad to manually release the solenoid? That’s a fairly common flaw with electronic door locks, and you should probably double check whether it’s an issue you have.
that model does not. it uses a small electric motor to engage and disengage the knob to the bolt, instead of a solenoid bolt release, so the magnet would do nothing.
Also as long as the mechanism to reset the passcode is also only accessible via key or from the inside. And yes, I watch the LockPickingLawyer, how could you tell?
LOL, I used that magnet trick on the elevator in my school, that was for people in wheelchairs, because I was too lazy to climb the stairs 4 floors up for my chemistryclasses. Magnet > Key.
It is extreamly thick for security yeah, but also important for preventing fire from spreading. And lastly insulation. We always had some heavy duty security doors with multiple locks and latches.
11:16 right, we have a very similar front door (no back door). There are bolts all around that submerge into the metal frame and into reinforced concrete. It's quite sturdy. Living in Hungary.
Italy here. I can't believe how surprised you are. I can't believe you had never seen a security door before! Here everyone has doors like that, even small or very simple apartments, it's just normality!
Eh... c'è da dire che in America la maggior parte delle case sono fatte di cartapesta e le nostre porte blindate non riuscirebbero nemmeno ad ancorarle decentemente. Poi come ha detto qualcuno in un altro commento, ben anche mettessero una porta blindata, basta dare una spallata al muro subito di fianco alla porta xD
About the handle, most apartment doors in France don’t have a handle or a knob you can turn from the outside. You just turn the key to open the door. It means if you forget your keys and slam the door, you are locked out. Well most doors can be opened with a flexible plastic sheet like a medical radio or plastic folder if they where simply shut without using the key.
You should have a look at some of the old ( I mean built in the 1600s) Italy house rebuilds. Some of those front doors put some castles to shame. Solid 3 inch thick oak with metal bars in behind, and locks.
My aunt (Italy) has the same door and it's really strange when you move it because it's made of iron and wood but it's very light, and it's incredible in America houses are made on purpose to entertain tornadoes.
I remember the first time i visited my girlfriend's parents in Rome. When they gave me the keys. Three different lock systems in the entrance door. Including a key that originally looked like a safe key.
@@Leo.Apet.shish.c No, I'm just talking about the keys to the apartment door. The safe key was also for the apartment door. There were three different locking systems installed in it. I'm not talking about the keys for the window bars or basement.
Should have seen the anchoring bolts etc of the door from our motor/bicycle shack. My dad used 1ft bolts to secure the thick solid oak frame to the brick walls. The 4 hinges are secured to the door with thick screws that are like 6~7". The door itself is also solid oak and i guess about the same as the video so 2,3" thick. The lock is also a 6 point bolt, 2 in the middle and 2 at the top and 2 at the bottom. The lock cylinder is also high grade security and we once almost had to cut the door out because the cylinder got stuck. All our doors are solid oak and have the same 6 bolt locks, my dad is a (now retired) wood craftsman and used to do doors for ppl as a side job in the weekends.
I think my shed is harder to break in than average american house, it has abloy lock and its made out of real wood, not that cardboard that americans built their houses with.
@@Phiyedough People and cars are twice the size, so it works out. What is sad is build quality is going worse, and prices are sky rocketing, everywhere.
So its basically like in the movies where the cops kick doors open in the us😂 I can assure you that you are not doing that probably anywhere in europe. In finland our outside doors have to open towards the outside by law and the frame is constructed so that you cannot get the door in without completely destroying the frame aswell. I do have to say that the european door that was shown here was quite an extreme one though.
That door looks very much like the typical the door you get in fairly new apartment buildings in Poland. I had an almost identical door in my apartment in a building complex from 2008.
I was going to comment the same thing, that the Finnish doors open outwards. As I understand it, there is actually a shocking reason why it's mandatory. 200+ years ago there were several instances where a fire started in a building (mainly churches) with a bigger crowd and when people panicked the pressure from the people in the back prevented the people in the front from opening the door, so a lot of people died. It was decided that for safety reasons doors should always open outwards. Now I'm curious, is there any other country that has front doors that open outwards like in Finland? Based on movies and TV doors elsewhere seem to always open inwards like in this video. Comment if the front doors open outwards in your country.
Almost same in Estonia. But those are doors that are built as single unit usually - door, frame and the locking mechanism. Bought house about 7 years ago and it had that vault-style up-down-3-to-the-side locking. And triple-glass panel wide window just at side .. like typical computer security ..
Electronics technician here. Electronic PIN locked doors are a HUGE security risk. I could hack that myself with a small hammer and a screwdriver. I'd never use it for my main front door. Hope this helps :)
You don't need this at all - you're just wasting your time. Just kick it (hard) and it will open in seconds. Please get some real doors. This is looking like a mere joke.
@@dnocturn84 True, but one method is loud and will alert a probably armed American and their family. The other one you can do sneakily. Which in my opinion is more dangerous.
I worked in IT for a while, and indeed I would never install an electronic lock on an exterior door. It would be worse though, it could be a Ring system by Amazon, which has camera Amazon will gladly send the footage to any cops who ask casually, without telling you and of course without a judge order.
@@jmx16x70 two of my favorite findings about the differences between Europe and America is that burglars in the US spend 3-5 time longer observing and staking out a house than their counterparts in the US. This is because guns. Seconsly In the US burglars who find out someone is home will abandon the crime completly more than 85% of the time unlike Europe which is iirc 30% of the. In Europe the Burglar will still cut the crime short but also still try and take something. This has become so broadly culturally accepted amongst criminals the US that law enforcement states that if a break is occurring and the burglars are aware people are home then they are not here for your TV and Jewelry but for you and are experiencing a home invasion.
@@PandorasFolly Europe is not UK... guns in many European countries are popular and in many European countries burglars are more skillful than in US. For example my Polish neighbour Porsche was stolen when he was in home with family and they entered home but first they used sleeping gas...
Yes. It looks exactly like this. Such doors in Europe have two purposes. First obvious (security) SWAT team would have to use explosives to open it. The second one is perfectly soundproof and seals against drafts (winds). Very useful when it is -25 degrees Celsius outside and there is an icy wind blowing.
We grew up watching so many amazing US American movies! I always wondered how strong policemen must be that they can kick in exterior doors. Even our interior doors are so heavy. It's almost a two person job to lift them into the hinge. I can do it by myself but a lot of people do have problems. And I don't blame them. I had enough pain learning to unhinge them Doors often fail at the frame.
OMG... you are right. I always wondered how people could survive being punched or tossed through walls in US movies. I put it down to some silly exaggerated action trope. But if the walls are made out of drywall, then it's absolutely possible to jump through a wall without shattering every single bone in your body. I'm sort of mind-blown right now.
the movies use prop doors so there really weak although the shinning they had to retake because the guy was a firefighter, so they had to make it a stronger door for him
@@tehweh8202 it's how we run our plumping, ac vents, wires. it does make it easier to access and repair without needing a mason to fix your wall if you drill out a hole. there was a time people wouldn't even lock there doors or just keep there doors open during the day before AC even then. but being able to fix your own house has it's benefits
She overlooked another safety feature in the door ! There are also pins on the other side one higher up and one lower down (non-movable) making it impossible to force the door open, even at the pivot point. ! ! ( the cops love them ) 😂😂🤣🤣
My door in my flat works very similar and the thickness is c.a 2-2.5". Main bolts coming out horizontally in three lines (close to the top, middle and lower part of the door and ..... on both sides as well as two vertical bolts like presented on the video. The lock was unbeatable for many years however there is a tool (available for maybe 2-3 years) which can help to open door in emergency but still you need to have experience (as a locksmith) as well access to this tool :) . The US door locking system is so simple and this is the reason why all doors (on movies and in real life) can be opened by using "credit card" :) .
Greetings from Germany!✌️ Zombie/monster/horror movies where someone/something just breaks through your front door, your wall or window/roof are only "realistic" in America. 🤣 If I lock all the doors and windows in Germany and pull down the shutters, you'll need a Swat team to get in.
@@simonebaruzzi156 chemistry is your friend. You have lots of stuff you can weaponize, if you know the ingredients and how they react. It usually isn't thought about too much though :D My gran would probably have used an umbrella though. Or the scythe they used to mow their lawn...
First time i've been to the US some years ago i noticed sooo many small things where i was like "oh it's actually like this and not just a TV/movie thing"
Das ist wie bei dem wolf und den 3 kleinen Schweinchen. Er hustet ind Pastete und das Haus war weg. Das letzte aus Ziegeln war von einem deutschen Maurer.😂
No joke, my bedroom door lock is probably on par, the door is thicker with proper hardwood, and it opens outward so you either have to pry it out or bust through 😅
Doors are very different, from country to country. The usual door, at least where I live (denmark) has a dead-bolt at the top, middle and bottom. When pulling the handle up, as you do when locking the door, the upper and lower dead-bolt springs out then the locking-bolt is actuated by the key-rotation. And yes, the door is thick enough to have a 2-layer glass pane in it, and it's inbedded around 1/3" or 1/4" inside the actual door. It's made either of metal, or has a thick, fire proof core to make it able to withstand fire very well.
The door for my flat in Romania is thicker that the fire door is the new built flat in London... Europeans invented fire doors before fire doors were a requirement in flats 🤣 Hell most flats in Europe have a new requirement to drill air vents on an exterior wall because these modern doors are too air tight and some flats may have an air circulation problem with air tight doors and double or triple glazed windows...
I worked in a hotel in Austria, and on the card readers for the roomkeys was a small, red, LED that began flashing for a week or so if the battery power became low. Somehow we did oversee that LED on one keylock, and when the power was gone, there was no way to open that door anymore. We had to call a construction company, that broke a hole in the wall of the room next door, so we could enter that room and open the door from the inside. The doorframes are made out of steel, and way harder to remove and replace than a brick wall.
Since you were curious, east of Poland some not top of the line door but better then the previous one our family had. Metal door, standard for the outer doors. I have never seen a handle that has lock in itself before until few american movies and it always feels wrong, even here I thought the front door simply had no lock at first. One dead-locking mechanism below the handle, and one far above (both using different keys, and having a turning bolt from inside side). The frame itself is in fact from thick pretty wood installed into the wall. You or installing carpenter is expected to varnish it. We personally been using ship varnish and were applying it for few weeks in the summer until it stopped sucking in completely. The inside part of the frame is filled with metal so the bolts are moving cleanly. And of course, the peeping hole to seal the deal, often casually in Poland called "Judas" (but pronounced You-dash) edit: Oh, and right the lever type handle is the most common standard. My uncles used to have round one and as a child I could barely defeat those when visiting them in summer.
In Poland exterior steel doors are very common. Many of which are custom and built exactly how the client wanted it. Soft internal padding, sound deadening, fire sealing, exterior wrap, extra locks, extra deadbolts, hinges disappearing into the frame when closing, peephole, built-in internal gap locks, etc. Naturally like all exterior doors, these always open outside. Usually the only time people are buying off-the-shelf doors from the big home improvement supermarkets is when they need a door for a shed or something similar and even these are stronger then what Americans lock their homes with.
@@mil3k In standalone houses there are variety of the ways door open. But in case of MDU (multifamily builidings) law strictly requires the external doors to be opened inside, for the security reasons (sorry for my poor english, hope it can be understand).
@@jurekt1294 Indeed. I'm aware of different regulations for building types. You should address your comment to OP not to me. 😄 Are you sure that external doors in common areas should open towards inside? What happens when you have a panicked crowd pushing against closed doors?
Dutch guy reacting: the European door shown are of course not everywhere like this, but I can tell that at least A LOT of doors are a combination of metal and hard plastic, the thickness is the same and you either have a 3 point lock door or 5 point lock door. In the video there are 4 locks very close to each other. Here it would be, with a 5 point door lock, a lock on top, then 3 on the side (but then on the side top, side middle and side down) and one down. These types of door are very resilient against burglary and depending on window size, usually smaller than 20cm wide (2/3ft), e.g. small enough no person can fit through, and the frames these doors are situated in are also made of metal and hardened plastic. It's very well known once you have this kind of door, you never have to paint it and it's practically maintenance free. I also saw once a video about "testing doors" and they hired a very strong guy to test out the doors. In that video interesting enough, this very tall strong man could not hammer his way through the door, but the circumvented the problem by just going through the wooden wall, around it 😅. Since most American houses are made of wood this could also be a weak point even if you have a top quality door. Most European houses are made of concrete, brick and mortar, and usually also in multiple layers. I think that would be tougher to break through. Not totally impossible, even with a large enough sledgehammer and enough time and enough will power, you can even breach a brick or concrete wall. Interesting video. It shows again that American houses are made to last for about 30 years and then most of the Americans simply rebuild it, because wood is more cheaper.
Yes, you sure need to upgrade some. :) But at the end its a matter of money. A decent house door in Germany (similar in function to that Croatian door) will cost you around 2,000 Euro. It may look a bit fancier then, with aluminum trims, or a glas insert with bars or so. If you go for the cheap and nasty, you can get a fire proof steel door for 500 Euro, that also quite solid, but with a simpler lock. In any case, nobody is gonna kick them down easily, with the American doors I would not be so sure about that. Another big difference (thats not mentioned) is, how the doors fit into the frame. American doors have no stepped frames, its just a straight fit. German doors have at least one step on door and frame - even those inside the house. Same as the windows btw. Thats a much better seal against draught (especially if it has a rubber sealing in it) and noise. Check it out on Google pictures. Another point is, German house doors almost never have a moving handle on the outside, only a fixed grip of various design. So you can pull the door shut, but only open it if you have the key. So nobady can just walk in if you didn't lock the door. Very important!
in comparison, the last commercial steel door I bought was around $1,000.00 US, but was not fitted for an advanced type of lock. a fancy exterior house door won't cost you $500.00 US. (keep in mind the euro is unusually weak against the dollar right now, so it's close to a 1:1 conversion.) if an American exterior door is installed CORRECTLY, it won't kick in. you can check Mythbusters to see what it's really like with a correctly and incorrectly installed door.
It of course depend on houses but here in france, we also have similar white "bland" rooms doors. Houses (front) doors aren't specifically that much more differents (specially older houses), they're often 3 or 5 points (bolts) but it's nothing (again unless you personally demand/change/construct it) like an apartment door. Those are made to both prevent robberies which are more common in apartment complexes and to prevent fire spreading
I'll never forget the time I checked into a motel in Las Vegas. The door was simpler and softer than the one to grandma's hen house. NO, I am not exaggerating”. If I grabbed the top edge and the center, I could easily make the door warp! As someone else wrote, the doors that are kicked in in American movies do not need to be prepared...
i live in Scotland and every house i've had has had variations of these doors in the second part of the video however in the UK at least if you live in an apartment/flat your door will also have an expanding rubber strip around the doors to suffocate fires before they can spread to the rest of the building. when i stayed in a flat all of my interior doors had fire strips in them. and in the bungalow i have now it also has full fire doors and the exterior doors have 4 deadbolts each at the top, bottom and middle of the door activated by lifting the handle up before locking. if you watch videos of brittish cops using the "big red key" it can take many many attempts and when they do eventually give way its usually the whole frame and sometimes part of the surrounding wall that gives way and not the door.
@@soklot this triple point locking door are quite obsolete - new doors are mostly 5-7 point locking or more some people use safety doors which are like 150kg of steel and bolts all around, plus safety chain (or similar mech). All installed doors especially in apartment buildings are obligated to function as fire barrier (I renewed my flat and exchanged old 80's 4cm woodenframe papercovered doors in metal sheet frame for 5cm steel framed steel covered /wood look decorated/ BASIC fire barrier 6+1 point locked doors in steel frame - 6mm thick metal frame profile) - it can differ from country to country, but fire barrier needs to stand fire for at least 90min in this case. And those door are basic, no safety, no high standard (like 300€)
Even though the Croatian door is not too different to my safety door here in Sweden i did notice a big difference. Here outer door must open outward due to fire safety. Lets say there is a fire and several people need to run out, you dont want the door to open inward because the people behind you might be pushing. That also mean the frame are on the inside which makes it even harder to kick in. The downside to this is of course if there is an emergency, police, medics or firemen need to contact the owner of the building to open the door with a key.
As a Croat I think in homes and apartment buildings I rarely saw doors open outwards....maybe only the door when entering the building other than that I cant recall when I saw an apartment door opening outwards. I guesss both have pros and cons like you explained for Sweden...
Even in apartments like shown in croatia? Don't you have many accidents of someone walking down corridor and gets his face slammed by other person leaving their apartment?
In Finland, this was actually because many people were crushed to death when crowds panicked about church fires. There were a total of six of these mostly 18th and 19th century disasters, where nearly 100 people lost their lives. A couple of these were just immature jokes and the rest weren't serious fires either.
Hey I'm from Croatia. These doors are standard and they are anti-burglary with fire damp. Usually they don't have a handle on the outside this is the first time I see it. There is just a fixed knob for pulling the door. You can only open it with a key from the outside, even if unlocked you need a key to open the door.
Those type of door are not uncommon all across Europe, far from it. Having lived in France and now living in Belgium, I can add that some insurance company will make you pay more on your house insurance if your front door doesn't have at least 3 locking points and some will even make you pay even lower for a 5-points locking mechanism. Even my parents, who live in an old country-style house in Burgundy built over 200 years ago (can't remember the exact date on top of my head, but it was late XVIIIth century) did change front and back doors for ones with 5-points locking mechanisms for that reason (and because it is a lot safer, too), even if they settled for plain oak doors and not metal ones.
Now I wonder what our family insurance must be when we have 9 points locking mechanism :D 5 and 4 on the sides :D The doors are from two layers - outside wood and inside metal, although these are the old version (15 years at least) and the newer ones are from multiple layers :D
Southern and Central European doors are indeed no joke. In Scandinavia we have a little less hard-core doors normally. Clearly higher quality than the US doors, but not as security focused as doors further south. (Probably also because our houses are often made of wood, and crime is pretty rare).
@@IQEGO I checked wih my brother who's still living in France, his home insurance required him to have at least a 3-point locking mechanism or any robbery/break-in won't be compensated to the fullest extent. A 5-point one lowered what he pays by about 5-10%. English isn't my primary language obviously, so I might have mistranslated "serrure 3 points". It's a locking mechanism who must have three locking parts located as follow: one at lock/doorknob level, one at the top of the door, one at the bottom of the door. Those locking parts can have one or multiple deadbolts and are usually all located on the same side of door. A "serrure 5 points" usually adds to that mechanism a deadbolt that goes upwards into the doorframe and one that goes downwards.
@@greymantle6949 Yes you translated it well. I have 9 points locking system :D Left side of the doors: 4 deadbolts, up, up-mid, bottom-mid, bottom. Right side: The same + one in the middle (the classic one everyone has) :D
No door handle or knob… well, it‘s kinda a knob but it doesn‘t turn. You turn to key instead. It got some resistance (more than a regular lock) so that lockpickers have it more difficult to push the cylinders in place and keep them there because the thin tools they use simply bend before the lock turns. The keys themselves are hardened so they don‘t break.
@@alexradojkovic9671 and some cannot be bought elsewhere than from original door producer - yes, people are smart and locksmiths especially - but some keys can be obtained only from producer after proving u r owner of doors (cards / registartion system ... did not buy doors for a long time)
Well... if your walls are only wood and paper, sturdy door does not help at all. These doors are only sensible when you also have brick & mortar walls. So that the door sits securely, but also so that its not easier to go through the wall than the door. Which it sometimes still is. Fire rescue had at times simply torn down walls instead of opening doors... On the other hand, thick doors and walls also help prevent fire spread. So thats that.
@@homesteadlegion4419 the locks generally have a clutch now to prevent snapping part of that clutch does indeed prevent a key on the other side fully inserting unless the key is perfectly aligned
That is an option -> also many locks have flaw that you can then turn the inside cylinder without need to pick any pins becase your pins are already set if that key is inside -> that is why leaving your key inside is not as safe as you think.
Not all locks do that, some can be opened from outside even if the key is placed in the hole. Its a security feature if somebody lives alone and has a problem so emergencies or family can open even if the key is placed.
My exterior door is not quite that secure like the croatian one (meaning several bolts) but it is almost 40 years old door so can't really expect that :D, it has abloy lock, with the old style key which still is very hard to pick even today, you would need specific tool for it. It only has one lockbolt like the US door, but the housing is much better attached to the frame. The door itself is about 8cm thick so bit over 3 inches. And yes it opens outwards, but it does have metal spikes that go in to the frame when you close it, so even if you pop out the hinges you can not open the door without opening the lock. (can't bother to go look but I also think that the pins of the hinges are spot welded in place so you can't just easily remove even those without making noise, not that it matters for breaking in anyway) But still nothing is unbreakable if someone really wants to get in, we have power tools so its just matter of time.
Now that you've seen the basic apartment door (okay, it was a bit more secure than basic) in Croatia you will understand why many if not most Europeans only grin when we see American cops in movies or cop shows using a one-person battering ram to crack American doors. In Europe we'd hear the first loud bang on the door, maybe hear some crumbs fall from the masonry, but that'd be it. If the cops don't use a heavy-duty triple or quad person battering ram we could probably throw in another cross-beam to secure the door even more before anyone got in. Even a fireman axe would probably do nothing but put dents into those doors. The walls are also much thicker, and made of bricks at minimum, probably reinforced concrete around entrances. That's why we call American houses flimsy. Trying to punch through those doors or walls is an exercise in futility and self-mutilation.😂
The (security) door I have is pretty standard for the town where I live. Around 9cm (3.5") thick, full steel frame, full steel plating on both sides, heat and sound insulated with mineral wool on the inside, 5 point main lock and a secondary lock with a deadbolt, some fixed pins that blocks attempts against lifting the door out of its frame, though the hinges and the frame are already very sturdy, some drill protection on both key holes on the outside and finally some MDF plating to give it a wooden aesthetic.
11:53 that door is not full metal, it's mostly wood. The outer edge is metal framing to secure a tight fit with the locking mechanism in the frame in which the door hinges. Never have i seen this kind of door, but the outer doors here in the Netherlands ensure that no water seeps in like the first door shows, mostly are solid wood only, heavy. You will not be getting in easily without a key.
I have to add some information. In most buildings the front door don't have handles anymore, on the outside, as you don't want someone to open the door if they don't have the key, so you only use the key to open the door; you have to rotate the key to actually open the door from the outside. Changing one of this doors cost you at least 1000€. Also, if you get shot from the outside, depending on the caliber, you won't get hit at all. Edit: I think that if you don't protect your house as a Bank would protect its money... what are you doing? The most value thing that you have are in your house, money wise or not.
It is crazy how safe we build houses and appartements :'D I had to buy a diamond head for the drilling machine to drill some holes to install lights and for the curtains in my newly built appartement in Austria. But the biggest benefit is that i hear no sound at all even though all appartements around and above me are rented by young people. I can even sleep through it when the neighbour above me drills and i don't hear any traffic sound even though there is a busy street right next to my appartement, and i'm in the first floor directly next to the street
As an european locksmith i dont know My American counterpars have a job, it should be cheaper to just cut the dam bold off trough those flimsy lateral covers then replace the lock.
Czech here. Europe has 6 door security classes (higher means better), the door shown was 3rd class I guess. I would like to see how S.W.A.T. conducts a raid and hits the door of the 4th floor (translated by Google)
This kind of door is pretty common in my country, too. The idea is, this door is ok to protect an apartment, at least on intermediate floor, because no one can spend time or make noise to break it. Of course, if the burglars know you have something very valuable in the apartament, they will find a way to go inside. But otherwise, no one will risk just to check if something interesting inside. On the other hand, if you are living in a house, a door like this is not really necessary because the burglars will find the simplyest way (break a window). But we install such expensive doors to resist over the years to temperature variation summer-winter, or if they are directly in the sun, to have better insulation, etc.
I live in the UK. your outside doors look like my inside room doors, my main doors are upvc with a steel core and steel surround, the frame is steel faced with UPVC , when the handle is lifted, it rotates steel "hooks" into the door frame at 2 points top and bottom on each side of the door, and 2 dead lock bolts above and below the lock , then you turn the key to lock it
In the Netherlands front doors allways open to the inside so you can never get snowed in, despite the fact that it snows a lot less here than it does in your neck of the woods. Very strange.
@@benji1292 Fair enough but I wonder if you would even be able to "kick" a door in. My front door is only an inch and a half thick but it is solid high density plywood, not a chance. People pushing you from behind to get out will make it harder and possibly impossible to open a door inward in a public building with lots of people panicking. But a home ... I don't get it.
that was a classic safety door in EU. It is recommended, by insurance, that your exterior doors are all safety doors. Many people still use the classic doors for entrance.
Yes. But the fire resistance is usually an even higher concern which makes the design that way. Especially when it open inwards in apartments for obvious reasons. One can get far lower insurance rate the higher class the door is.
@@AltCutTV it might work that way in your country. i have worked years in the insurance business and safety doors, which also have higher fire safety standards, were quite a good thing to have and could earn you a nice discount on insurance. usually between 10-20%.
@@LednacekZ Yeah. Maybe a more correct description for mine (Sweden) would be: If you don't have all kinds of security standards in a location where it is probably not needed anyway you will get a really bad deal. 🙃
@@Phiyedough They usually have all access keys. But in such situations evacuations are often done from the outside anyway. There are very few skyscrapers in Europe.
Inside the door are one or two steel sheets. They are handgun bullet proof. It's easier to brake down the wall (steel and concrete ) than opening the door
BTW, if you want cheaper home insurance, you need to have certain grade of doors, but the one in video is just a regular .... usually you have those rods in all corners and also at the hinges so it avoid hydraulic press attack on the frame. Also it needs to be metal inside for fire protection. And the outside mechanism is really basic here, usually you need handle and lock in the same metal protected section. And of course, you don't have handle from outside, so it cannot be easily opened by anyone coming from the street. There is just knob (but you cannot turn it). You open the mechanism with the key and you (obviously) have a handle from inside to open the door. Also I have a special lock (it is replacable and standardized) with key from outside and turning knob from inside. Even if you don't lock your door, no one from outside can come in because there is no handle. But I always lock my door from inside and with this system I don't need to put the keys there (and more importantly I can't forget they in the keyhole:) .... also it is better in case of fire, it can be unlocked from inside without key and it also have a button to disable outside lock so even if someone has a key, they cannot enter when you are at home so you feel super safe ... also if you have your girlfriend come over and wife suddenly return home, she can't open the door;-DD I can't believe you have these doors everywhere, I thought it was just in the motels we were staying. In here (Czech Republic) you probably won't even get initial inspection with wooden frame .... it is so flimsy and unsecure, now I get those hollywood movies when they foot kick the doors;-D OMG! Look at the police video from here, they have a metal batters and even two people won't break in more secure doors;-) ua-cam.com/video/C-ePeVHBTx0/v-deo.html ..... like normal secure doors including frame and work is less than 1k$ .... for 1-2k$ you have the highest protection door. How much are those paper doors in US?
Grew up in an old house in the Netherlands, while the whole place was awesome, the door always amazed me, 4cm thick at the _thinnest_ points, at least a 100 years old but still with a ~3mm metal core, beautifully carved front and back, tiny window, heavy as hell (nearly impossible to stop) but easy to move. Entire door frame a single piece of stone. New owner of the place modernized like 80% (ruined so much of the cool aesthetic of the house) but they kept the door since you pretty much can't buy a better one (in both security & looks departments) today 😂
The housedoors at the house of my parents: 20cm thick woodwith 5 bolts and also a kettle inside on both doors. I have seen when they paited the doors when they lifted them out they were 5 strong men and the had to breath and work hard. I think the doors weigh around 200kg=600 pounds. Its a older house massive with 50cm thick walls aeound and inside it dies have 20cm thick walls.
Congrats, you made me take a closer look at my own door....I just wanted a standard door with 2 locks, when I was making renovations for my apartment.....turns out my full steel door is even better than the one shown in the clip..... it cost me about, 800 euro? Pretty sure I had a discount?
our front doors are similar in the UK, American front doors look like our interior doors, normal room door, just added a lock, we have similar to europe, maybe not metal, metal frame with pvc cladding, but the metal isnt as heavy as the europe one, but still prob take over an hour to kick it in if it was possible hahahah.
The police or fire department can kick it in. They just come with a big metal ram and don’t care how much noise they will make. Ok maybe the doorframe will give out sooner then the door😂
@@1987tijgertje UK Police do use battering rams, as standard. Its can still take 15 to 30 mins to get in. No shown here. uPVC doors usually have a 5-7 point locking system. Some of which, like the Croation door, lock into the frame top and bottom. Here is a vid. Council houses are the US version of social housing. ua-cam.com/video/3KeS8dzNLxQ/v-deo.html and another showing a full door takedown (18 mins) ua-cam.com/video/TowwXKSefjk/v-deo.html
As an European (Portuguese) those are pretty standard for the new doors! Old door are commonly heavy but don't have so mane locks, usually the key rotates 2/3 times and the locker goes a bit further and locks position
I never understood how in American movies doors are kicked open so easily. Now it makes sense.
Same with punching the walls
Just the fact that the door is opened inwards is kind of stupid. If it was opened outwards the frame would help a lot.
This croatian door is not the european standard, but I have a friend with a front door like that. It is way more better looking and has to more bolts.
The lock is VERY safe.
It is freaking expensive if you lost your keys to get in! 😬
@@rickardstrom9305 Virtually all of our doors in most of Europe open to the inside -- there are some exceptions for public buildings (escape route) -- and we don't have that problem. That very first door is just bad quality. -- and as I have got to know from others, in some areas, especially in Scandinavia, doors opening to the outside are mandatory for several reasons.
@@McGhinch I assume there are different building standards then. My own front door opens outwards towards the stairway and if anyone feels like kicking the door in they have to take the whole frame with it. That said it isn't a perfect solution either since the hinges are available to anyone trying to break in.
Why should you have a full metal door in the US when you can just walk trough the wall next to that door? 🤣
you mean modesty panel? I dont see no walls over there :D
maby a Wallhack????🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂
Just watch the scene from RED with Bruce Willis, where they break into a room in the CIA, with a door that has a code that can't be cracked, he just punches a hole in the wall next to it and pushes on the cylinder.
@@Masterfighterx or watch homer in japan, very similar.
This door is called Anti Burglary Door. They also have (at least my door does) soundproofing that reduces noise from outside or inside up to 40dB. The thickness is about the same (as in the video). They have a wide-angle peephole, so you can see outside well. Mine have 4 main bolts and 2 more bolts horizontally at the top and bottom (not vertically, as in the video). Instead of the safety chain that the old, classic door had, this door has a built-in rigid mechanism that replaces the safety chain and is impossible to remove. Doors closed with this mechanism only open so far, that you can put your fingers in the opening. On the hinge side of the door, there are fixed, non-moving pointed bolts that go into holes in the door frame, when the door is closed. Thus, when the door is closed and locked, it is "anchored" in the frame - on both sides. We can truly say that they are like vault doors. And most importantly: you also get a card (the size and appearance of a bank card), without which they cannot make a copy of the key for you. 😎
They can make a copy of the key, they are just not allowed to.
If you look long enough or have good contacts you can get a copy easily.
@@hubertnnn Then what's the point of such a door - if it's according to you - so easy to get to the key?
Only a scumbag or a crooked locksmith could have a mindset like yours.
@@lydia5232 First you need to get access to the key. Second, even with that card a scumbag could still make two copies (one for himself). And third, lawyers are expensive, most people will not risk having to deal with them, but some will, and a friend wold not care, you wouldnt sue a friend right?
@@hubertnnn I have the door, I have the key. Wrong! Here, in such a case, I do not know "friends". And like I said...your way of thinking tells me everything...and you definitely wouldn't be one of my friends.
Your exterior doors looks like our interior doors
Whan i was in the us first time i went to a really cheap motell and.. the door you could literally see throw the crack.
And even in the chrep as flatt i lived in then had dubble rubber seals and back and front deadbolt (but not up amd down)
So true :)
i confirm. Your exterior door look like my toilet door.
Actually, they look crappier.
I would only find such poor quality door on apartment from the 1970s that hasn't been renovated since.
Not quite 😂. At least my interior doors don't squeek and the handles and latches are much better. But the door itself is of similar structures as the US interior doors, being something like MDF frame and sheets, all covered in thin wooden "foil". The cavity inside could be empty, but I opted for sound dampening infill. My exterior door is 96 mm thick multilayered wood with 3 latch mechanism (top and bottom in addition to standard latch), plus one flat locking pin, as is common here. The door has triple panes windows as well as the fixed side and window above the door, which are one piece (1 product). It has multiple sealing strips and it has the same R-vakue as my triple pane windows. So far (15 years) no issues. And yeah, even my interior door have a recess all around except bottom and same goes for integrated sealing.
European doors are suitable for European brick or concrete walls, not suitable for American paper walls.
That’s a great point as well
What would you even anchor it onto? A shoddy 2x4 won't bear the load of an average European Aluminium door.
The video could probably go on with the window frames. They will probably fit with the solidity of the front door. Otherwise that front door would be overkill and make little sense as burglars would lift the window with a crow bar.
This kind of castle door is not common in Europe. Doors (and house structures in general) are more solid than in US though.
How doors and houses look vary with each country. Each country has their own construction regulations and building habits. You immediately notice when you cross a border because the roads are different, but also the houses changes within 1 km.
This is only partly true. Even in Europe, wooden-paper buildings are being built today, but they still have good quality security entrance doors with steel reinforcement (also windows and other elements in the house).
But of course, the door opening must have an appropriate construction.
In Europe, better quality houses are generally being built and it doesn't matter what they are made of... But for an example. When I changed the entrance door in my apartment, slightly above standard quality, they have a steel frame filled with noise insulation, safety certified, their price was $1500, roughly equivalent to the average monthly income here in Czech Rep.
And if you want to build a smaller house with 4 rooms, 120 m2 of floor space, it will cost an estimated $300,000 to $400,000 (in the normal standard), plus you have to buy land, but where the price varies quite a lot depending on the location. In desirable locations it will of course be more expensive than the price of the house. In villages, land prices are significantly lower.
I don't have good English and I'm lazy, so I spoke the text and automatically translated it, so I apologize for the inaccuracies.
@@IWrockerAlso can't forget that main entrance doors wary for country to country in europe. It also depends if it's a house or an apartment and even that depends if the building is old or relatively new. Some Apartment buildings use a solid knob on the outside and the lock is below the knob and you open the door by turning the key and holding it turned while pulling on the door to open it.
The building I live in (France/Centre Loire) has been build in 1808 (50-70cm thick stone walls) and fully renovated about 50 years ago, the doors are almost indestructible, 2x3mm steel plates sandwiching a 6cm plain wood frame, 4 hinges and 4x1cm pins (1 top, 1 bottom and 2 on the side) plus the handle latch and lock with quarter circles all around the frame so that you can't fit a crowbar. So, yeah... you won't enter without heavy duty equipment. And that's if you manage to pass the ground floor door that is an 180 years old 12 cm thick wood door. That said, that's almost mandatory if you don't want to pay a fortune in insurance fees.
Berfore upgrading to European doors, you guys need to replace the wall with something more stable...
Just imagine the weight of such a door and then someone slams the door in an angry manner.....
The difference between European and American houses is primarily that you can get into American houses with a chainsaw. 😅
If You try this, the house will collapse and leave the door standing
@@saad-t7k even without the chainsaw, in Kool-aid fashion "Oh yeah!" 😂
😂
@@saad-t7k not a chainsaw, screwdriver. Pocket knife.
Blunt spoon. 😂
America: Slaps a sheet of metal onto flimsy wooden door to strengthen it.
Croatia: Slaps a sheet of wood furnishing onto Vault door to make it look less intimidating.
you dont know what you talking obout....sheet of wood is just from outside if you want to change color or get damaged.... inside is metal sheet 3-4mm thick and every 30cm is steel bar that go from 1 side to other
Oh but that's not true! In my country, if you get a metal door, thieves would be more interested of what you might be hiding behind it!
@@skymaster2911 He wrote just the same, but in the funny way :)))
@@skymaster2911 I think you are lost in translation. It's pretty ironic, given that you accused him of "don't know what you talking about. " Turns out, you were the one who didn't know what he was talking about... xDDD
Pretty sure my apartment door here in Sweden weighs nearly 100kg. They all also open outwards to make it easier to escape in case of a fire.
I live in Sweden, most apartment door here are thicker to not only be harder to break but also to contain a fire.
Each apartment is a fire cell to prevent the fire to spread as easily.
Våra dörrar går utåt också. Det är väldigt ovanligt i övriga världen.
I assumed that was why the apartment door in Croatia was so heavy, fire safely,.
Same in czech republic
@@KjellEson Fördelarna med att de öppnas utåt är för oss bara självklart. Lätt att komma ut vid brand, speciellt om man kryper på golvet. Mera plats på insidan för kläder och skor. Vid slagregn rinner vattnet på utsidan och inte inne på trösklar, Sedam är det omöjligt att sparka upp en dörr. Då är balkongdörren enklare, för de kan ofta gå inåt.
It also provides better insulation.
Don't need a quality door if you can just punch your way through the wall instead
😂
Good point
haha well said, pointless in America all wooden
Or an ordinary glass panel in the front door "break glass to open"
@@zetectic7968 lol I know. I mean come on really. It’s no wonder they are all afraid and have guns. All they need to do is sort the walls doors and windows.
I'm in the UK our doors are mostly plastic with metal frames that also have their own dead bolt system that bolts around the door, the police need to attack the hinges to stand a chance when they show up with a knocker
Ireland here, five or seven point locking systems are the norm here, I have not seen a one point lock on a door in thirty years. As a retired firefighter we were trained to break out the center panel if there was one on the door because you are not getting through the locking system.
There is bunch in Dublin. I am not surprised. The building is kinda old and land lord gives minimal shit
Standard in Wales too, even in my council flat, window locks aswell.
I forgot something on the stove years ago. it was probably the most expensive rice of my life but the fact that even the cops had problems getting in was worth it
We usually don't have a "movable" door handle on the exterior door in Germany. You cannot pull it down. You can only put a key into the keyhole plus turn it around while pushing the knob to open the door.
same in belgium and france for home less than 20-30 years old
Neither do we in Spain.
Same in Portugal.
Though, if it's an exterior door to the garden (a back door), it may have a lever-shaped door handle.
Same here in Ireland.
@@gerardflynn7382 same in Holland
As a Scandinavian, our doors usually have a lever handle that you push down to open and pull up to attach dead bolts.
These dead bolts are usually hook shaped with one at the top and one at the bottom of the door, so it's not just center locked.
You have to attach the dead bolts before you can lock the door.
Usually the lock itself is not a dead bolt that intrudes the frame, but an internal locking mechanism in the handle.
When the door is locked, the handle can't be pushed down.
Now I understand why in the American movies they open the doors with credit cards, I thought it was just fantasy😂😂😂😂
German here: I once opened the door of my neigbour with a card, it broke in the process (the card), but the door was open (she had a meal cooking, locked herself out and was compeltely in panic)
On another occasion, I opened the door of another neigbour with a thin piece of aluminium sheet. Took 2mins 😎
Turkish here. If you get locked out of your apartment (because our doors are also handleless on the outside like some other people were saying for other countries), the locksmiths usually show up with old cards or xray films. If the gap in the frame is large enough to fit either, the latch gives way if you slide the "tool" over it. But also, I don't think I ever went away or went to sleep without turning my keys first either.
It's relatively easy to do with older European doors, not so much any more. When I was in highschool a friend kept forgetting his keys. My ID was ruined...
@@doppelT_066 That works because the door was accidentally close, which means it was not locked with key, which means only the beveled latch bolt is locking the door, not the (multiple) dead bolts.
14:10 we have lower crime BECAUSE our doors are like this 😂
As a European who views Americans as very protective, I am honestly quite shocked that you guys don't have sturdier doors
The issue isn't really the door, the issue is if they used doors like ours where we build buildings with proper structural integrity to withstand storms and bad weather like it's nothing, they would have a door installed that is sturdier than the rest of the building in which case it servers no purpose. Even if they can't benefit from our "standard" exterior doors, I'm amazed they almost use internal doors as external, I at least expected some form of securing not a basic wooden frame and some silly lock on a door that looks like you could hit it three times and the hinges would fail.
@@q1337 kicks the door and the whole house falls apart except the door 😂
And homes...
Who needs sturdy doors when you have guns? /s
@@infinite_monkey590 Probably in case you aren't home?
I live in Hungary, in a late '70s commi block. Our door cost something around 200 bucks, it have a 5 cm metal core + some structural stuff and a decorated outer layer which is also metal. It's came with a metal frame, it's have 2 different lock with two "stage" you can turn the key and the inner lock twice so the locking mechanism goes twice as deep into the frame, it's locks on all side in 15 points in total.
Look up European police breaking down a door, they have to sweat for it unlike the US cops just shoulder bashing through a front door 😂
Ha... Coincidentally... I have just seen a hilarious video today of Yank coppers trying to break through a front door that opens outwards.
No big deal I thought...until 3 guys ran out of puff taking turns using their sledge hammer and crow bar.
All that happened is that the outside door handle had fallen off.
The suspect must have imported a Finnish door.
Yea european swat or other special police actually use battering rams to open a door.
and sometimes they fail and go back leaving the drug dealer free 🤣 or it's the walls that break or they use explosives.
@@alexradojkovic9671 If it had been a Finnish (apartment) door there would be no handle on the outside to begin with.
@@darkiee69 oh
As a european that migrated to america. The electric here looks like its made for a hobby project for children. The doors and locks look like theyre only there to keep the dust out. But they have burgler bars everywhere infront of single layered glass windows.
Now why.. in the name of hell.. would you willingly migrate to the USA.. a country with poor education, poor healthcare, EXPENSIVE HEALTHCARE, no workers rights, (no guranteed paid vacation, paid maternity or paternity leave), 0 protections for parents and jobs. No unlimited sick days, you dont get paid sick days either..
Like.. I would geniunly want to know why anyone would willingly move to such a crappy place
@@dillon17 I never set foot in the usa. U dumass I said america. Usa is only a quarter of the America's and its the most degraded part also. I have no problem with them rednecks I would fit right in but ammerica is way bigger and has way better places to live than the usa.
@@dillon17 for healthy people with skills that are in high demand it's a great way to work a few years, get lots of money and get the hell out of the US again with that money.
the secret is leaving before the bad situations catch up to you (bad health, crime, getting children that then need to get "educated" in a US school)
@@dillon17best country on Earth
@@randomvids2837 😂🤣😂 Dunno man... lived there 23 years, and returned to Europe.
Pretty much 80% of the exterior doors here are locking more than one side of the door, so the bolts on top and bottom are basically a given. 3 months ago i changed the exterior door of my apartment. Went with a highly reputable german brand and their mid-class option. With the installation it was €3200 - not super cheap, but not ultra expensive either, kinda in the middle. It's a solid wood door, reinforced with metal rebars horizontally and vertically, with metal case shell on top of that and then MDF on top of the metal as decoration and additional sound insulation. Fully metal door frame and again covered with MDF on top for better sound insulation. The door wing itself is 15cm thick and it alone weighs 164kg. The door has the highest rating for security, but my favorite thing are the locks. It has 3 bolts on the side of the handle, like the one shown in this video, but also has 2, not 1 on top, 2 at the bottom and 3 more on the side with the hinges. It trully is like a vault door and feels great when opening and closing. When the guys installed it, they fixed the frame to the concrete with 18 anchor bolts in total. There is absoluitely no way to pry it open or bust it. There are also much cheaper option, like under €1000 cheap, which also work quite well and have mutliple locking points, but i don't like to go for the cheapest possible and always aim at the mid price class. Pretty much all of my neighbors have the same brand and class of doors and all of them are extremely happy with their purchases.
Also, here in Austria, the amount you have to pay to insure your Appartment against burglar depends on the door you have. It's cheaper to upgrade your door, than pay more for insurance for the rest of your life.
America is always worried about home intruders so they keep guns.
Meanwhile in Europe, there are no home intruders because it takes hours to break into a house.
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Same here in Poland, I think this is a common thing in Europe, as we have pretty much the same insurance companies around the continent.
Doors in america feels like toilet doors back in 25 +years ago in europe… 😂
No they don't.
25+ years ago in EU the toilet doors were heavy solid wood :D
More like 50+ years ago.
@@axelolordwhich is still better than American doors
Made my day 😂
You would break leg on that full wood doors
Here in Slovenia EU, the front door to the house is a 6-12 point lock. The door is made of aluminium, with 2-3 insulating seals around the door (against water and air). There are aluminium reinforcements and crossbars in the door panel, horizontally and vertically (against burglary), and all filled with high insulation foam. The door is screwed on all 4 sides with 25 cm steel screws, with 4 to 8 screws on each side. The thickness of the door is approximately 10-12cm.
This burglar-proof door costs €1500 including installation. Glass (glued P5A) can be added if required, or fingerprint unlocking for 700€.
And widows 12cm, glass P4A, RC2, PVC, 😊
At the european door the lady missed to show on the hinge side additional fixed pins on the door that go into holes in the frame when closing the door
Seriously. We have a door like that, and I can hardly imagine trying to bust that thing down if the lock breaks. At least I could disassemble the lock from the inside, but from the outside you'd have to bring a propane torch or an industrial grinder if you wanted to get in.
@@SeanMirrsen Thats the whole point. If you lock yourself out you will smash through the bulletproof windows, not through the door, the door is unbeatable.
In France the 3 points door lock, completely metal door and metal frame became the standard like 10-20 years ago. All house insurance require 2 points lock at minimum. What we call here "security doors" will have like bolts on the 4 sides of the door, multiples bolt per sides, and anti lift system to prevent to try to break it by a lever method.
We have the exact same here in Sweden. It´s standard in every new house since 15-20 years back, and we got the security door a year ago.
At this point I guess that it's an European standard, I live in Italy and it's the same. The security door from the video is average here, non renovated old houses may have worse, but we are talking about the first half of the 20th century... My grandparents' house has a metal door and it's from the '60s...
Yes the national standards must match at least the UE standard.
Same in Portugal, so I presume it must be EU regulated, good on us 💪💪😁
@@CP-ok7rmdo you use those lower frames on the Doors in the low/med range of security Doors?
Hello, I live in Belgium, my front door is the same as the one in the video but with some twists: I don not have a handle at the outside, just the keyhole and instead of the bolt going up I have 2 extra vertical bolts: one going up in the wall and one going down in the floor. My door is made of aluminum, no wood at all and it's about 2.5 inches thick. Like your videos, keep it up man!
I always thought that cops breaking through locked doors using a shoulder in American movies was just a Hollywood thing.
It kinda is. They have specialized shotgun rounds they shoot at the lock to break it.
I think they're called "breaching rounds"
@@Fridelain I promise to you, I can kick those two American doors open. And I can propably also slam them open with a bit of momentum with my body weight.
Our inner doors come thicker and with better locks than these "front doors" and I've kicked some of them open just for fun, when I renovated my house years ago. I assume I can sell European inner doors to the US - those will be safer than the two joke doors shown in the video.
Cops in the US use door breacher, heavy metal tools or instead of that the cal. 12 shot gun with door breacher ammo. No cop runs against the door with his body.
My door in Europe doesn't have an outside handle.Just a stationary knob so u can move the door when u go out. Insert ur key, unlock, 1/4 turn more of key and voila the door opens
Can confirm, most of the more secure ones forgo the external side handle which makes it even safer, about 1/4 turn and you hold the resistance of the closing lock like a handle through the key itself.
Yep, in Spain is like this, you have to use the key to open the door from the outside, it doesn't have a handle that opens the door
Same here in Italy.
same in Italy (from 2008+)
same in France ( or a least at my place)
13:05 I don't know what they do down there in Croatia but at other places the bolts are distributed along the vertical edge of the door. They aren't in a tight group like this. What's the point in four bolts so close to each other? Doors usually come with three, four or five bolts and more than a single lock. Also let's see if she's got an eyehole on her door.
Не знаю как в Европе, но вроде по российским стандартам такое близкое расположение штырей связано с защитой от тупого удара кувалдой или чем то схожим, также такое устройство сложно распилить.
European windows also tend to be quite heavier and sturdier, with double or more panes of insulated glass. Seems to be in big part due to environmental regulations, better isolation = less energy used = less pollution. But of couse that has other benefits, they don't break easily, you save on energy bills, and they also isolate from noise pollution.
I remember one American saying the silence in a European home, after closing all the windows, was quite the eerie experience to them. Add to that the metal rolling shutters many have, and you can be in complete darkness and silence lol.
In the US a lot of the building codes and standards are driven by the new home industry. We have dozens of multi-billion dollar companies whose business is developing new tracts of housing on never before developed land and they spend a lot of money making sure the laws they have to follow are cheap to follow.
Will smith’s house in “I am Legend” is based of the German/European building regulations. 😂
yes 3 layer glalss is standard, i never saw single layer lol thats useless
I've build a shet this year and used some windows who are around 70 years old. Even they are double layers. Murica, what are you doing?
@@Erimioa double pane nitrogen filled is the standard in american building. Has been for 40 years
"My knob has a different exterior size" 😂 did make me chuckle
Haha, same here! 😂😂
11:55 there are kinds with deadbolts also on the bottom, also the 4 Deadbolts on the side are a simple setup. The technically better setup is 2 bolts around the lock and 1 at the top and bottom so you cant push in the corners. Not that the simple setup wouldnt hold, just that the more "complex" type can withstand a bit more brute force.
We in Germany have door types such as T30, T90 etc. This stands for the time it can resist against fire (T90 = 90 minutes). Depending on where the door is mounted there are different legal requirements.
I wonder if there could be any fire requirements for a door into a house made of sticks and plywood.
I think it's similar to here in France. Fire resistant depending on the floor, the evacuation routes, etc ...
But you also should have anti theft resistance regulation too, for both the door, the door frame, the way it's attached and lock.
I forgot American doors have that much gaps everywhere.
Im swedrn wr call them R/I 30-120.
The one is resistante to fire the other is resistant to force.
If you have a indoor garage you have to have a 30 minite peotection and for a front door in a highrise its 60 minutes.
There been.a few cases where the neighboor flatt burned down and the one across the hallway didnt norice untill the fire fightres crusshed there window to "save" them.
Can confirm that we also use a similar standard in sweden, generally known as security doors i.e. 60 min or 120 min resistance to fire depending on type of door, between 5-15 minutes resistance to breaking & entering (meaning active time drilling, using hammer, crowbar, angle grinder, sawzall and so on) also meaning actual time getting in would be close to an hours work...
Only two drawbacks:
They´re pricy (starting at €970:- or $1100:- upwards toward €4400 or $4900)
They´re heavy. Average weight is starting around 100kg or 220 lbs, so you probably wont be moving / installing it yourself 🙂
The advantage of even having a T30 door in the US: after a fire, you could reuse the door for your next house, because the burnt down house was T2 and the doors would be in pristine condition after the fire 😂😂
Hi, im from Croatia and my job is designing those doors. Those in video are Italian made, and medium quality. I can give you few specs, doors thickness is between 68 and 78mm (anti theft or fire resistant). Doors core is profiled galvanised steel straighten with three vertical profiles. Whole doors are filled with stone whoolor acoustic foam. Front and back is 7mm laminated MDF. Sides are powder coated galvanised steel. Door frame is also galvanised steel, profiled and material is 2mm thick. Door frame have two parts, inner and outer, inner is bolted to wall and outer is bolted to inner one. Every door have 3 gaskets, resistant to fire and smoke. Fire resistant Door also have red or purple sheetrock 10mm thick (red is fire resistant, and purple is fire and water resistant). Locks are story for itself. I will just say that you can not drill trough it.
two of my favorite findings about the differences between Europe and America is that burglars in the US spend 3-5 time longer observing and staking out a house than their counterparts in the US. This is because guns.
Secondy In the US burglars who find out someone is home will abandon the crime completly more than 85% of the time unlike Europe which is iirc 30% of the time. In Europe the Burglar will still cut the crime short but also still try and take something.
This cut and run has become so broadly culturally accepted amongst criminals the US that law enforcement states that if a break is occurring and the burglars are aware people are home then they are not here for your TV and Jewelry but for you and are experiencing a home invasion.
Have you ever had a talk with someone of your profession from the US? That would be an interesting exchange for sure 😂
Have you heard about Bosal doors from Serbia?
Infatti mi sembrava molto simile al tipo di porte che abbiamo in Italia. Grazie per l'info!
@@goose-lw6js unfortunately not 😀
7:12 and you can see from here, that the door has been forced open already, as the wall has a puncture where the latch was wrecked out while the door was locked.
17:11 “You can either use a key, which we don’t; we just use a passcode.” Have you tried the third option, holding a strong(-ish) magnet next to keypad to manually release the solenoid? That’s a fairly common flaw with electronic door locks, and you should probably double check whether it’s an issue you have.
that model does not. it uses a small electric motor to engage and disengage the knob to the bolt, instead of a solenoid bolt release, so the magnet would do nothing.
Also as long as the mechanism to reset the passcode is also only accessible via key or from the inside. And yes, I watch the LockPickingLawyer, how could you tell?
@@Aotearas and it's only as secure as the backup keyway.
LOL, I used that magnet trick on the elevator in my school, that was for people in wheelchairs, because I was too lazy to climb the stairs 4 floors up for my chemistryclasses.
Magnet > Key.
It is extreamly thick for security yeah, but also important for preventing fire from spreading. And lastly insulation. We always had some heavy duty security doors with multiple locks and latches.
11:16 right, we have a very similar front door (no back door). There are bolts all around that submerge into the metal frame and into reinforced concrete. It's quite sturdy. Living in Hungary.
Italy here. I can't believe how surprised you are. I can't believe you had never seen a security door before! Here everyone has doors like that, even small or very simple apartments, it's just normality!
It is the cheap version at OBI or Leroy-Merlin.
E tra l'altro abbiamo anche le tapparelle che sono fenomenali!
Eh... c'è da dire che in America la maggior parte delle case sono fatte di cartapesta e le nostre porte blindate non riuscirebbero nemmeno ad ancorarle decentemente. Poi come ha detto qualcuno in un altro commento, ben anche mettessero una porta blindata, basta dare una spallata al muro subito di fianco alla porta xD
@@francoo.m. I still can't believe they buy flimsy blinders from Costco and shit 😅 All our houses, and I mean, ALL come with roller shutters.
I miss my monolocale. It was far more secure than even that house!
About the handle, most apartment doors in France don’t have a handle or a knob you can turn from the outside.
You just turn the key to open the door. It means if you forget your keys and slam the door, you are locked out. Well most doors can be opened with a flexible plastic sheet like a medical radio or plastic folder if they where simply shut without using the key.
You should have a look at some of the old ( I mean built in the 1600s) Italy house rebuilds. Some of those front doors put some castles to shame. Solid 3 inch thick oak with metal bars in behind, and locks.
My aunt (Italy) has the same door and it's really strange when you move it because it's made of iron and wood but it's very light, and it's incredible in America houses are made on purpose to entertain tornadoes.
I remember the first time i visited my girlfriend's parents in Rome.
When they gave me the keys.
Three different lock systems in the entrance door.
Including a key that originally looked like a safe key.
@@millinamillota7537 No, they have 20,000 trinkets and the keys to the basement...
@@Leo.Apet.shish.c No, I'm just talking about the keys to the apartment door.
The safe key was also for the apartment door.
There were three different locking systems installed in it.
I'm not talking about the keys for the window bars or basement.
they are not light, they have quality hinges
good hinges but they’re usually over 170 kg on average
In America it is useless to put a reinforced door like the European ones: if the burglar finds it difficult he will kick in through the walls.
actually so true hahah
Not in a brick house.
@@zetectic7968 Of course.
@@zetectic7968ok true. But Americans bricks, so maybe huff and puff slightly hard 😂
@@zetectic7968you might find more of those upnorth but they are much rarer if there is no winter.
Should have seen the anchoring bolts etc of the door from our motor/bicycle shack. My dad used 1ft bolts to secure the thick solid oak frame to the brick walls. The 4 hinges are secured to the door with thick screws that are like 6~7". The door itself is also solid oak and i guess about the same as the video so 2,3" thick. The lock is also a 6 point bolt, 2 in the middle and 2 at the top and 2 at the bottom. The lock cylinder is also high grade security and we once almost had to cut the door out because the cylinder got stuck. All our doors are solid oak and have the same 6 bolt locks, my dad is a (now retired) wood craftsman and used to do doors for ppl as a side job in the weekends.
I swear, your houses are quality wise comparable to garden sheds and only the ones where there is nothing valuable inside...
The average American house is more than twice the size of the Average British house but probably costs about half as much to build!
@@Phiyedough If they built garden sheds, I'm sure it would be cheaper than in the US....
I think my shed is harder to break in than average american house, it has abloy lock and its made out of real wood, not that cardboard that americans built their houses with.
@@Phiyedough People and cars are twice the size, so it works out. What is sad is build quality is going worse, and prices are sky rocketing, everywhere.
So its basically like in the movies where the cops kick doors open in the us😂
I can assure you that you are not doing that probably anywhere in europe.
In finland our outside doors have to open towards the outside by law and the frame is constructed so that you cannot get the door in without completely destroying the frame aswell.
I do have to say that the european door that was shown here was quite an extreme one though.
That door looks very much like the typical the door you get in fairly new apartment buildings in Poland. I had an almost identical door in my apartment in a building complex from 2008.
I was going to comment the same thing, that the Finnish doors open outwards. As I understand it, there is actually a shocking reason why it's mandatory. 200+ years ago there were several instances where a fire started in a building (mainly churches) with a bigger crowd and when people panicked the pressure from the people in the back prevented the people in the front from opening the door, so a lot of people died. It was decided that for safety reasons doors should always open outwards.
Now I'm curious, is there any other country that has front doors that open outwards like in Finland? Based on movies and TV doors elsewhere seem to always open inwards like in this video. Comment if the front doors open outwards in your country.
Here in the netherlands I have never seen an outside door opens to the outside, always to the inside.
It looked to me like a normal modern door, but maybe I need to pay more attention.
Almost same in Estonia. But those are doors that are built as single unit usually - door, frame and the locking mechanism. Bought house about 7 years ago and it had that vault-style up-down-3-to-the-side locking. And triple-glass panel wide window just at side .. like typical computer security ..
Thank you for the video!
Electronics technician here. Electronic PIN locked doors are a HUGE security risk. I could hack that myself with a small hammer and a screwdriver. I'd never use it for my main front door. Hope this helps :)
You don't need this at all - you're just wasting your time. Just kick it (hard) and it will open in seconds.
Please get some real doors. This is looking like a mere joke.
@@dnocturn84 True, but one method is loud and will alert a probably armed American and their family. The other one you can do sneakily. Which in my opinion is more dangerous.
I worked in IT for a while, and indeed I would never install an electronic lock on an exterior door.
It would be worse though, it could be a Ring system by Amazon, which has camera Amazon will gladly send the footage to any cops who ask casually, without telling you and of course without a judge order.
@@jmx16x70 two of my favorite findings about the differences between Europe and America is that burglars in the US spend 3-5 time longer observing and staking out a house than their counterparts in the US. This is because guns.
Seconsly In the US burglars who find out someone is home will abandon the crime completly more than 85% of the time unlike Europe which is iirc 30% of the. In Europe the Burglar will still cut the crime short but also still try and take something.
This has become so broadly culturally accepted amongst criminals the US that law enforcement states that if a break is occurring and the burglars are aware people are home then they are not here for your TV and Jewelry but for you and are experiencing a home invasion.
@@PandorasFolly Europe is not UK... guns in many European countries are popular and in many European countries burglars are more skillful than in US.
For example my Polish neighbour Porsche was stolen when he was in home with family and they entered home but first they used sleeping gas...
i love your enthusiasm for all kinds of topics :D
Yes. It looks exactly like this. Such doors in Europe have two purposes. First obvious (security) SWAT team would have to use explosives to open it. The second one is perfectly soundproof and seals against drafts (winds). Very useful when it is -25 degrees Celsius outside and there is an icy wind blowing.
We grew up watching so many amazing US American movies!
I always wondered how strong policemen must be that they can kick in exterior doors. Even our interior doors are so heavy. It's almost a two person job to lift them into the hinge. I can do it by myself but a lot of people do have problems. And I don't blame them. I had enough pain learning to unhinge them
Doors often fail at the frame.
OMG... you are right. I always wondered how people could survive being punched or tossed through walls in US movies. I put it down to some silly exaggerated action trope. But if the walls are made out of drywall, then it's absolutely possible to jump through a wall without shattering every single bone in your body. I'm sort of mind-blown right now.
I'm a small woman and I do a lot of home renovations. I _really_ don't like _solid_ inside doors 😅
the movies use prop doors so there really weak although the shinning they had to retake because the guy was a firefighter, so they had to make it a stronger door for him
@@tehweh8202 it's how we run our plumping, ac vents, wires. it does make it easier to access and repair without needing a mason to fix your wall if you drill out a hole.
there was a time people wouldn't even lock there doors or just keep there doors open during the day before AC even then.
but being able to fix your own house has it's benefits
She overlooked another safety feature in the door ! There are also pins on the other side one higher up and one lower down (non-movable) making it impossible to force the door open, even at the pivot point. ! ! ( the cops love them ) 😂😂🤣🤣
Exactly. Pins are on all four sides
Yes indeed, you’re correct!
True!
Dokładnie. Od strony zawiasów. Tam wchodzą w otwory same podczas zamykania drzwi, bez przekręcania klucza.
My door in my flat works very similar and the thickness is c.a 2-2.5". Main bolts coming out horizontally in three lines (close to the top, middle and lower part of the door and ..... on both sides as well as two vertical bolts like presented on the video. The lock was unbeatable for many years however there is a tool (available for maybe 2-3 years) which can help to open door in emergency but still you need to have experience (as a locksmith) as well access to this tool :) . The US door locking system is so simple and this is the reason why all doors (on movies and in real life) can be opened by using "credit card" :) .
Greetings from Germany!✌️
Zombie/monster/horror movies where someone/something just breaks through your front door, your wall or window/roof are only "realistic" in America. 🤣
If I lock all the doors and windows in Germany and pull down the shutters, you'll need a Swat team to get in.
yes , but than they have weapons for the monsters , we don't have . at most i have a knife in the kitchen .
@@simonebaruzzi156 chemistry is your friend. You have lots of stuff you can weaponize, if you know the ingredients and how they react. It usually isn't thought about too much though :D
My gran would probably have used an umbrella though. Or the scythe they used to mow their lawn...
First time i've been to the US some years ago i noticed sooo many small things where i was like "oh it's actually like this and not just a TV/movie thing"
Das ist wie bei dem wolf und den 3 kleinen Schweinchen. Er hustet ind Pastete und das Haus war weg. Das letzte aus Ziegeln war von einem deutschen Maurer.😂
The same in Poland - you would have to use nuclear missile...s... Probably 5 or 8
13:31. That's like a bedroom door.
No joke, my bedroom door lock is probably on par, the door is thicker with proper hardwood, and it opens outward so you either have to pry it out or bust through 😅
Doors are very different, from country to country. The usual door, at least where I live (denmark) has a dead-bolt at the top, middle and bottom. When pulling the handle up, as you do when locking the door, the upper and lower dead-bolt springs out then the locking-bolt is actuated by the key-rotation. And yes, the door is thick enough to have a 2-layer glass pane in it, and it's inbedded around 1/3" or 1/4" inside the actual door. It's made either of metal, or has a thick, fire proof core to make it able to withstand fire very well.
The door for my flat in Romania is thicker that the fire door is the new built flat in London... Europeans invented fire doors before fire doors were a requirement in flats 🤣
Hell most flats in Europe have a new requirement to drill air vents on an exterior wall because these modern doors are too air tight and some flats may have an air circulation problem with air tight doors and double or triple glazed windows...
I worked in a hotel in Austria, and on the card readers for the roomkeys was a small, red, LED that began flashing for a week or so if the battery power became low.
Somehow we did oversee that LED on one keylock, and when the power was gone, there was no way to open that door anymore. We had to call a construction company, that broke a hole in the wall of the room next door, so we could enter that room and open the door from the inside. The doorframes are made out of steel, and way harder to remove and replace than a brick wall.
Nice story bro. All electronic locks have connectors for external battery.
@@khagaroth not every electric lock, we had locks at work without extrenal connectors, was a pain when battery ran out and none said anything.
@@khagaroth infact that's what i was thinking.. i work in a 4 stars hotel in Italy and we do use this system.
@@khagaroth I can promise you, that im not making this up.
@@mymarci my brother here in u.s. uses a fish hook wire to go under the door if the battery runs out. for some reason no one saw this through 😅
Since you were curious, east of Poland some not top of the line door but better then the previous one our family had.
Metal door, standard for the outer doors. I have never seen a handle that has lock in itself before until few american movies and it always feels wrong, even here I thought the front door simply had no lock at first.
One dead-locking mechanism below the handle, and one far above (both using different keys, and having a turning bolt from inside side).
The frame itself is in fact from thick pretty wood installed into the wall. You or installing carpenter is expected to varnish it. We personally been using ship varnish and were applying it for few weeks in the summer until it stopped sucking in completely. The inside part of the frame is filled with metal so the bolts are moving cleanly.
And of course, the peeping hole to seal the deal, often casually in Poland called "Judas" (but pronounced You-dash)
edit: Oh, and right the lever type handle is the most common standard. My uncles used to have round one and as a child I could barely defeat those when visiting them in summer.
She lives in Florida and got a metal door due to weather etc.
yet fits a frame setup that allows water in?!?!
Florida woman
it needs a porch to keep the weather / rain off the front door.
In Poland exterior steel doors are very common. Many of which are custom and built exactly how the client wanted it. Soft internal padding, sound deadening, fire sealing, exterior wrap, extra locks, extra deadbolts, hinges disappearing into the frame when closing, peephole, built-in internal gap locks, etc.
Naturally like all exterior doors, these always open outside. Usually the only time people are buying off-the-shelf doors from the big home improvement supermarkets is when they need a door for a shed or something similar and even these are stronger then what Americans lock their homes with.
What do you mean by "always open outside"? I can't recall any house I visited in Poland that had external doors opening outside.
@@mil3k In standalone houses there are variety of the ways door open. But in case of MDU (multifamily builidings) law strictly requires the external doors to be opened inside, for the security reasons (sorry for my poor english, hope it can be understand).
@@jurekt1294 Indeed. I'm aware of different regulations for building types. You should address your comment to OP not to me. 😄
Are you sure that external doors in common areas should open towards inside? What happens when you have a panicked crowd pushing against closed doors?
Dutch guy reacting: the European door shown are of course not everywhere like this, but I can tell that at least A LOT of doors are a combination of metal and hard plastic, the thickness is the same and you either have a 3 point lock door or 5 point lock door. In the video there are 4 locks very close to each other. Here it would be, with a 5 point door lock, a lock on top, then 3 on the side (but then on the side top, side middle and side down) and one down. These types of door are very resilient against burglary and depending on window size, usually smaller than 20cm wide (2/3ft), e.g. small enough no person can fit through, and the frames these doors are situated in are also made of metal and hardened plastic. It's very well known once you have this kind of door, you never have to paint it and it's practically maintenance free. I also saw once a video about "testing doors" and they hired a very strong guy to test out the doors. In that video interesting enough, this very tall strong man could not hammer his way through the door, but the circumvented the problem by just going through the wooden wall, around it 😅. Since most American houses are made of wood this could also be a weak point even if you have a top quality door. Most European houses are made of concrete, brick and mortar, and usually also in multiple layers. I think that would be tougher to break through. Not totally impossible, even with a large enough sledgehammer and enough time and enough will power, you can even breach a brick or concrete wall. Interesting video. It shows again that American houses are made to last for about 30 years and then most of the Americans simply rebuild it, because wood is more cheaper.
Yes, you sure need to upgrade some. :)
But at the end its a matter of money. A decent house door in Germany (similar in function to that Croatian door) will cost you around 2,000 Euro. It may look a bit fancier then, with aluminum trims, or a glas insert with bars or so. If you go for the cheap and nasty, you can get a fire proof steel door for 500 Euro, that also quite solid, but with a simpler lock. In any case, nobody is gonna kick them down easily, with the American doors I would not be so sure about that.
Another big difference (thats not mentioned) is, how the doors fit into the frame. American doors have no stepped frames, its just a straight fit. German doors have at least one step on door and frame - even those inside the house. Same as the windows btw. Thats a much better seal against draught (especially if it has a rubber sealing in it) and noise. Check it out on Google pictures.
Another point is, German house doors almost never have a moving handle on the outside, only a fixed grip of various design. So you can pull the door shut, but only open it if you have the key. So nobady can just walk in if you didn't lock the door. Very important!
in comparison, the last commercial steel door I bought was around $1,000.00 US, but was not fitted for an advanced type of lock. a fancy exterior house door won't cost you $500.00 US. (keep in mind the euro is unusually weak against the dollar right now, so it's close to a 1:1 conversion.) if an American exterior door is installed CORRECTLY, it won't kick in. you can check Mythbusters to see what it's really like with a correctly and incorrectly installed door.
"Fulfils its purpose - opens and closes" also keeps bugs out and toddlers in, but anything more than that...
Practically a curtain.
It of course depend on houses but here in france, we also have similar white "bland" rooms doors. Houses (front) doors aren't specifically that much more differents (specially older houses), they're often 3 or 5 points (bolts) but it's nothing (again unless you personally demand/change/construct it) like an apartment door. Those are made to both prevent robberies which are more common in apartment complexes and to prevent fire spreading
12:46 good luck to SWAT 😂
SWAT would rappel from the roof and enter through a window.
Firefighters have pneumatics Hammer. No experiment with swat.
I'll never forget the time I checked into a motel in Las Vegas. The door was simpler and softer than the one to grandma's hen house. NO, I am not exaggerating”. If I grabbed the top edge and the center, I could easily make the door warp!
As someone else wrote, the doors that are kicked in in American movies do not need to be prepared...
i live in Scotland and every house i've had has had variations of these doors in the second part of the video however in the UK at least if you live in an apartment/flat your door will also have an expanding rubber strip around the doors to suffocate fires before they can spread to the rest of the building. when i stayed in a flat all of my interior doors had fire strips in them. and in the bungalow i have now it also has full fire doors and the exterior doors have 4 deadbolts each at the top, bottom and middle of the door activated by lifting the handle up before locking. if you watch videos of brittish cops using the "big red key" it can take many many attempts and when they do eventually give way its usually the whole frame and sometimes part of the surrounding wall that gives way and not the door.
In Finland, out doors are not Hollywood proof....
They open outwards and their frame prevents opening by kicking.....
In Sweden too
I've never seen a door like the Croatian one in Finland though.
@@soklot this triple point locking door are quite obsolete - new doors are mostly 5-7 point locking or more
some people use safety doors which are like 150kg of steel and bolts all around, plus safety chain (or similar mech). All installed doors especially in apartment buildings are obligated to function as fire barrier (I renewed my flat and exchanged old 80's 4cm woodenframe papercovered doors in metal sheet frame for 5cm steel framed steel covered /wood look decorated/ BASIC fire barrier 6+1 point locked doors in steel frame - 6mm thick metal frame profile) - it can differ from country to country, but fire barrier needs to stand fire for at least 90min in this case. And those door are basic, no safety, no high standard (like 300€)
Even though the Croatian door is not too different to my safety door here in Sweden i did notice a big difference. Here outer door must open outward due to fire safety. Lets say there is a fire and several people need to run out, you dont want the door to open inward because the people behind you might be pushing. That also mean the frame are on the inside which makes it even harder to kick in. The downside to this is of course if there is an emergency, police, medics or firemen need to contact the owner of the building to open the door with a key.
As a Croat I think in homes and apartment buildings I rarely saw doors open outwards....maybe only the door when entering the building other than that I cant recall when I saw an apartment door opening outwards.
I guesss both have pros and cons like you explained for Sweden...
Even in apartments like shown in croatia? Don't you have many accidents of someone walking down corridor and gets his face slammed by other person leaving their apartment?
In Finland, this was actually because many people were crushed to death when crowds panicked about church fires. There were a total of six of these mostly 18th and 19th century disasters, where nearly 100 people lost their lives. A couple of these were just immature jokes and the rest weren't serious fires either.
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Hey I'm from Croatia. These doors are standard and they are anti-burglary with fire damp. Usually they don't have a handle on the outside this is the first time I see it. There is just a fixed knob for pulling the door. You can only open it with a key from the outside, even if unlocked you need a key to open the door.
whats the burglary rate there?
Those type of door are not uncommon all across Europe, far from it. Having lived in France and now living in Belgium, I can add that some insurance company will make you pay more on your house insurance if your front door doesn't have at least 3 locking points and some will even make you pay even lower for a 5-points locking mechanism.
Even my parents, who live in an old country-style house in Burgundy built over 200 years ago (can't remember the exact date on top of my head, but it was late XVIIIth century) did change front and back doors for ones with 5-points locking mechanisms for that reason (and because it is a lot safer, too), even if they settled for plain oak doors and not metal ones.
Now I wonder what our family insurance must be when we have 9 points locking mechanism :D 5 and 4 on the sides :D The doors are from two layers - outside wood and inside metal, although these are the old version (15 years at least) and the newer ones are from multiple layers :D
Southern and Central European doors are indeed no joke.
In Scandinavia we have a little less hard-core doors normally. Clearly higher quality than the US doors, but not as security focused as doors further south. (Probably also because our houses are often made of wood, and crime is pretty rare).
@@IQEGO I checked wih my brother who's still living in France, his home insurance required him to have at least a 3-point locking mechanism or any robbery/break-in won't be compensated to the fullest extent. A 5-point one lowered what he pays by about 5-10%.
English isn't my primary language obviously, so I might have mistranslated "serrure 3 points". It's a locking mechanism who must have three locking parts located as follow:
one at lock/doorknob level,
one at the top of the door,
one at the bottom of the door.
Those locking parts can have one or multiple deadbolts and are usually all located on the same side of door.
A "serrure 5 points" usually adds to that mechanism a deadbolt that goes upwards into the doorframe and one that goes downwards.
@@greymantle6949 Yes you translated it well. I have 9 points locking system :D Left side of the doors: 4 deadbolts, up, up-mid, bottom-mid, bottom. Right side: The same + one in the middle (the classic one everyone has) :D
@@IQEGO That sounds pretty sturdy :o
One will make it into your house faster by tearing down the wall next to that door !
No door handle or knob… well, it‘s kinda a knob but it doesn‘t turn. You turn to key instead. It got some resistance (more than a regular lock) so that lockpickers have it more difficult to push the cylinders in place and keep them there because the thin tools they use simply bend before the lock turns. The keys themselves are hardened so they don‘t break.
My sister in Germany once lost her front door key.
The locksmith charged her over 300€ for a replacement. I now understand why.
@@alexradojkovic9671 and some cannot be bought elsewhere than from original door producer - yes, people are smart and locksmiths especially - but some keys can be obtained only from producer after proving u r owner of doors (cards / registartion system ... did not buy doors for a long time)
Well... if your walls are only wood and paper, sturdy door does not help at all. These doors are only sensible when you also have brick & mortar walls. So that the door sits securely, but also so that its not easier to go through the wall than the door. Which it sometimes still is. Fire rescue had at times simply torn down walls instead of opening doors... On the other hand, thick doors and walls also help prevent fire spread. So thats that.
The "european" door uses the key to lock them from the inside, which means you *cannot* pick (or unlock) them so long the key remains in the lock.
Yeah... My sister in Germany also leaves the key in the lock in her apartment front door
Make sure to test that though, some locks can be used from both sides at the same time.
@@homesteadlegion4419 the locks generally have a clutch now to prevent snapping part of that clutch does indeed prevent a key on the other side fully inserting unless the key is perfectly aligned
That is an option -> also many locks have flaw that you can then turn the inside cylinder without need to pick any pins becase your pins are already set if that key is inside -> that is why leaving your key inside is not as safe as you think.
Not all locks do that, some can be opened from outside even if the key is placed in the hole. Its a security feature if somebody lives alone and has a problem so emergencies or family can open even if the key is placed.
My exterior door is not quite that secure like the croatian one (meaning several bolts) but it is almost 40 years old door so can't really expect that :D, it has abloy lock, with the old style key which still is very hard to pick even today, you would need specific tool for it. It only has one lockbolt like the US door, but the housing is much better attached to the frame. The door itself is about 8cm thick so bit over 3 inches. And yes it opens outwards, but it does have metal spikes that go in to the frame when you close it, so even if you pop out the hinges you can not open the door without opening the lock. (can't bother to go look but I also think that the pins of the hinges are spot welded in place so you can't just easily remove even those without making noise, not that it matters for breaking in anyway)
But still nothing is unbreakable if someone really wants to get in, we have power tools so its just matter of time.
Now that you've seen the basic apartment door (okay, it was a bit more secure than basic) in Croatia you will understand why many if not most Europeans only grin when we see American cops in movies or cop shows using a one-person battering ram to crack American doors.
In Europe we'd hear the first loud bang on the door, maybe hear some crumbs fall from the masonry, but that'd be it. If the cops don't use a heavy-duty triple or quad person battering ram we could probably throw in another cross-beam to secure the door even more before anyone got in. Even a fireman axe would probably do nothing but put dents into those doors.
The walls are also much thicker, and made of bricks at minimum, probably reinforced concrete around entrances.
That's why we call American houses flimsy. Trying to punch through those doors or walls is an exercise in futility and self-mutilation.😂
"masonry"? My walls are concrete here xD
Even in Italy, burglar-proof armored doors are usually used.
The (security) door I have is pretty standard for the town where I live. Around 9cm (3.5") thick, full steel frame, full steel plating on both sides, heat and sound insulated with mineral wool on the inside, 5 point main lock and a secondary lock with a deadbolt, some fixed pins that blocks attempts against lifting the door out of its frame, though the hinges and the frame are already very sturdy, some drill protection on both key holes on the outside and finally some MDF plating to give it a wooden aesthetic.
11:53 that door is not full metal, it's mostly wood. The outer edge is metal framing to secure a tight fit with the locking mechanism in the frame in which the door hinges. Never have i seen this kind of door, but the outer doors here in the Netherlands ensure that no water seeps in like the first door shows, mostly are solid wood only, heavy. You will not be getting in easily without a key.
I have to add some information. In most buildings the front door don't have handles anymore, on the outside, as you don't want someone to open the door if they don't have the key, so you only use the key to open the door; you have to rotate the key to actually open the door from the outside. Changing one of this doors cost you at least 1000€.
Also, if you get shot from the outside, depending on the caliber, you won't get hit at all.
Edit: I think that if you don't protect your house as a Bank would protect its money... what are you doing? The most value thing that you have are in your house, money wise or not.
We still have handles in Sweden
1:45 shows some plain metal sheet with a handle and says it is "high quality door" LMAO
It is crazy how safe we build houses and appartements :'D
I had to buy a diamond head for the drilling machine to drill some holes to install lights and for the curtains in my newly built appartement in Austria.
But the biggest benefit is that i hear no sound at all even though all appartements around and above me are rented by young people. I can even sleep through it when the neighbour above me drills and i don't hear any traffic sound even though there is a busy street right next to my appartement, and i'm in the first floor directly next to the street
As an european locksmith i dont know My American counterpars have a job, it should be cheaper to just cut the dam bold off trough those flimsy lateral covers then replace the lock.
Yes, the entrance door is bolted well :) In my country as well people can chose their locking system and how many bolts they want, my door has have 7
Czech here. Europe has 6 door security classes (higher means better), the door shown was 3rd class I guess. I would like to see how S.W.A.T. conducts a raid and hits the door of the 4th floor (translated by Google)
This kind of door is pretty common in my country, too. The idea is, this door is ok to protect an apartment, at least on intermediate floor, because no one can spend time or make noise to break it. Of course, if the burglars know you have something very valuable in the apartament, they will find a way to go inside. But otherwise, no one will risk just to check if something interesting inside.
On the other hand, if you are living in a house, a door like this is not really necessary because the burglars will find the simplyest way (break a window). But we install such expensive doors to resist over the years to temperature variation summer-winter, or if they are directly in the sun, to have better insulation, etc.
I live in the UK. your outside doors look like my inside room doors, my main doors are upvc with a steel core and steel surround, the frame is steel faced with UPVC , when the handle is lifted, it rotates steel "hooks" into the door frame at 2 points top and bottom on each side of the door, and 2 dead lock bolts above and below the lock , then you turn the key to lock it
in Sweden, all exterior doors open outwards because it makes it much more difficult to get the door kicked in as there are moldings on the inside
Same thing in Finland. Also it is easier to get out in case of fire.
In the Netherlands front doors allways open to the inside so you can never get snowed in, despite the fact that it snows a lot less here than it does in your neck of the woods.
Very strange.
@@tomvanaarle2622lol true but in sweden almost every house has a small step up to the door and for me i have never been snowed in
@@benji1292 Fair enough but I wonder if you would even be able to "kick" a door in.
My front door is only an inch and a half thick but it is solid high density plywood, not a chance.
People pushing you from behind to get out will make it harder and possibly impossible to open a door inward in a public building with lots of people panicking.
But a home ... I don't get it.
that was a classic safety door in EU. It is recommended, by insurance, that your exterior doors are all safety doors. Many people still use the classic doors for entrance.
Yes. But the fire resistance is usually an even higher concern which makes the design that way. Especially when it open inwards in apartments for obvious reasons.
One can get far lower insurance rate the higher class the door is.
@@AltCutTV it might work that way in your country. i have worked years in the insurance business and safety doors, which also have higher fire safety standards, were quite a good thing to have and could earn you a nice discount on insurance. usually between 10-20%.
@@LednacekZ Yeah. Maybe a more correct description for mine (Sweden) would be: If you don't have all kinds of security standards in a location where it is probably not needed anyway you will get a really bad deal. 🙃
What if you are a firefighter wanting to rescue people inside the apartment?
@@Phiyedough They usually have all access keys.
But in such situations evacuations are often done from the outside anyway. There are very few skyscrapers in Europe.
Inside the door are one or two steel sheets. They are handgun bullet proof. It's easier to brake down the wall (steel and concrete ) than opening the door
While there's many different types of doors, I can confirm that atleast 2 of my apartments have had this type of door here in Poland.
Yep as European , I relate, my door is similar
BTW, if you want cheaper home insurance, you need to have certain grade of doors, but the one in video is just a regular .... usually you have those rods in all corners and also at the hinges so it avoid hydraulic press attack on the frame. Also it needs to be metal inside for fire protection. And the outside mechanism is really basic here, usually you need handle and lock in the same metal protected section. And of course, you don't have handle from outside, so it cannot be easily opened by anyone coming from the street. There is just knob (but you cannot turn it). You open the mechanism with the key and you (obviously) have a handle from inside to open the door. Also I have a special lock (it is replacable and standardized) with key from outside and turning knob from inside. Even if you don't lock your door, no one from outside can come in because there is no handle. But I always lock my door from inside and with this system I don't need to put the keys there (and more importantly I can't forget they in the keyhole:) .... also it is better in case of fire, it can be unlocked from inside without key and it also have a button to disable outside lock so even if someone has a key, they cannot enter when you are at home so you feel super safe ... also if you have your girlfriend come over and wife suddenly return home, she can't open the door;-DD I can't believe you have these doors everywhere, I thought it was just in the motels we were staying. In here (Czech Republic) you probably won't even get initial inspection with wooden frame .... it is so flimsy and unsecure, now I get those hollywood movies when they foot kick the doors;-D OMG! Look at the police video from here, they have a metal batters and even two people won't break in more secure doors;-) ua-cam.com/video/C-ePeVHBTx0/v-deo.html ..... like normal secure doors including frame and work is less than 1k$ .... for 1-2k$ you have the highest protection door. How much are those paper doors in US?
Grew up in an old house in the Netherlands, while the whole place was awesome, the door always amazed me, 4cm thick at the _thinnest_ points, at least a 100 years old but still with a ~3mm metal core, beautifully carved front and back, tiny window, heavy as hell (nearly impossible to stop) but easy to move. Entire door frame a single piece of stone. New owner of the place modernized like 80% (ruined so much of the cool aesthetic of the house) but they kept the door since you pretty much can't buy a better one (in both security & looks departments) today 😂
The housedoors at the house of my parents:
20cm thick woodwith 5 bolts and also a kettle inside on both doors.
I have seen when they paited the doors when they lifted them out they were 5 strong men and the had to breath and work hard.
I think the doors weigh around 200kg=600 pounds.
Its a older house massive with 50cm thick walls aeound and inside it dies have 20cm thick walls.
Congrats, you made me take a closer look at my own door....I just wanted a standard door with 2 locks, when I was making renovations for my apartment.....turns out my full steel door is even better than the one shown in the clip..... it cost me about, 800 euro? Pretty sure I had a discount?
our front doors are similar in the UK, American front doors look like our interior doors, normal room door, just added a lock, we have similar to europe, maybe not metal, metal frame with pvc cladding, but the metal isnt as heavy as the europe one, but still prob take over an hour to kick it in if it was possible hahahah.
The police or fire department can kick it in. They just come with a big metal ram and don’t care how much noise they will make. Ok maybe the doorframe will give out sooner then the door😂
@@1987tijgertje UK Police do use battering rams, as standard. Its can still take 15 to 30 mins to get in. No shown here. uPVC doors usually have a 5-7 point locking system. Some of which, like the Croation door, lock into the frame top and bottom. Here is a vid. Council houses are the US version of social housing. ua-cam.com/video/3KeS8dzNLxQ/v-deo.html and another showing a full door takedown (18 mins) ua-cam.com/video/TowwXKSefjk/v-deo.html
@@Yandarval yeah it will take some time, but eventually they will get in.
As an European (Portuguese) those are pretty standard for the new doors! Old door are commonly heavy but don't have so mane locks, usually the key rotates 2/3 times and the locker goes a bit further and locks position