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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 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.
@@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.
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. 😂
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.
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.
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 😂
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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?
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...
@@gabrieleapetino5549 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
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 😂😂
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 ..
If You put such a door in a US house, the burglar will walk through what You call a wall
😅 Yeah but in Europe we used to have a concrete or brick walls at least 1feet thick...
My grandpa house has 2feet thick concrete walls with isolation almost 3feet thick...😅 Burglar have to come with heavy machinery to get trough...😅
@@Mykaeil What I said
@@Mykaeil or go through a window.
@@xazzzi once i got stuck outside with my keys inside the house and (because of the huge noise) a had to call the police to watch me throwing a 25kgs stone several times to break the window of my own house ( two glasses of 8mm and an air chamber in between them)... notice: my windows are not the only ones in my city, they´re everywhere
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
Even in Italy, burglar-proof armored doors are usually used.
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.
"Fulfils its purpose - opens and closes" also keeps bugs out and toddlers in, but anything more than that...
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.
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.
Yep as European , I relate, my door is similar
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 !
i love your enthusiasm for all kinds of topics :D
Ian.
Here in the UK, many of our front and back doors are Upvc! That is they're a steel frame encased with Upvc, but can be wood, composite and metal!
The frame connected to the wall will also be the same construction!
The only way to break into them, is to smash out the inner core of the door which is usually thick hard insulation encased in Upvc etc!
The locking mechanism is a multi point system!
Mine is operated with a turn on the handle upwards after closing the door, to engage 5 sliding bolts into their corresponding runners on the outer frame. The key is then used to lock the mechanism in place! Making for a very secure entry/exit point!
Of course, all of our windows and door glass is double glazed, adding to efficiency and security!
That's why we don't feel the need of guns to protect our property! Knowing that a potential intruder will be a while, making all sorts of noise before the police arrive!
Is yours an older upvc door? Mine operates the same way as you describe but mine has 9 points of sliding bolts and catches etc and was installed around 12 years ago.
@@TheDeadAreLiving British doors do present this idea that they had no idea what locking mechanism would work best so they just put all of them in. My front door has a deadbolt, a couple of hook systems and a protrusion that slides into a reinforced groove in the frame, as well as huge covered hinges..
The UK is now in an exclamation point shortage.
next: American Windows vs. European tilting windows. The locking mechanisms of our windows are also insane compared to american ones.
Those advanced windows aren't that common everywhere in the EU. I know they are more or less standard in Germany, but while not extremely rare I can testify they are not common in France for example.
The thing to note is, the European door isnt a standard door from a store, its from a company, while the US door is from a hardware store. Im 99% sure you can get similar doors in the US aswell. Source, im from Europe
Sure, most larger hardware stores will likely have all sorts of class door in either US or Europe if you want to build or retrofit yourself.
I assume what you mean it is probably a B2B company that delivered that particular security door since it was likely the complex owner installing them for everyone.
yes, home depot will have the cheapest and simplest models of door. if you buy from a regular lumberyard, you can order stronger doors.
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.
German here: Having seen this video I get an idea why Jerry Orbach was able to kick doors open in Law & Order even in his later days.
Please note that the door you show from Croatia is an apartment door inside an apartment complex. The outer entrance would neither have a "handsful"(?) nor a knob, but simply a bar s that the door only can be opened with a key or from the inside.
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...
That European door is whats called ( in Portugal at least ) an " Armored " 3 points door lock, they are not that comon, most doors are solid wood 1 point doors ( 5 cm thick ), and then you can choose other style locks ( though im talking about superimposed locks as oposed to that imbued lock in the video ) and inges, you have 1 point locks, 3 point locks ( forward bolt plus one up and one down ( like the video), and finaly 5 points locks ( same thing, but has 2 extra bolts in the center of the door, then you have the safety inges lol, those are an intire different beast, 4,5 to 5" stainless steel 3mm thick and they have a " male and female bolt " in the inge it self, so when the door is closed its like having 2 or 4 extra locks ( deppending on how many inges you have ), so basically you front door is a banc volt door
Not that common? Here in Torres Novas there are many buildings, some of them built over 20 years ago, with 3 point door locks. The same in Entroncamento, Tomar or Alcanena. I've even seen them in smaller cities and towns that have less buildings than the ones I mentioned before.
@@module79l28 Portas blindadas? iguais as do vídeo? Sinceramente nunca vi, vejo mais é com fechaduras de sobrepor de 3 pontos, agora de embeber nunca vi.
@@TheAquarius1978 - Sim, portas blindadas da Dierre. Aqui perto da minha casa há uma rua com 18 prédios a ladeá-la, construídos entre 1998 e 2005, e quase todos têm portas destas nos apartamentos.
@@module79l28 Eu trabalhei numa empresa de construção, mas portas blindadas eram raramente usadas, quer dizer, depende do " acabamento " do apartamento, se for algo mais luxuoso talvez, mas apartamentos normais, portas de madeira maciça com fechaduras de 1 ou 3 pontos de sobrepor, isso era a norma.
@@TheAquarius1978 - Eu não consideraria estes apartamentos como luxuosos mas o que é facto é que na altura os construtores usavam muito aquelas portas.
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 😂
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.
So crazy for a Swede to see the front door leading into the house. Our doors go out from the house. Even in multi-family houses, all doors are out of the house. (If someone were to try to kick in the door must
the door frame follow in )
Quicker to get out in case of fire.
Yep, same in Finland.
In the Netherlands the front door opens inward, so you won't knock pedestrians of the sidewalk or the delivery man of the doorstep when opening it that way. The back doors will open outwards.
Yep. In Norway as well. Maybe it's a Nordic thing 🤷♂ Less people up here so less chance for knocking down a random person walking by 😅
But as you say it's in case of emergency/fire.
By the way, metal doors? Wouldn't say that's a European thing. I've never seen a metal door in a private home here. Must be a southern or central Europe thing. Most of these "European" videos are totally different from what we have/are used to up here.
@@Dougie- I've also never seen metal doors around here. Can't really imagine why that would be useful either. If someone were to go through all the hassle of bringing an axe or sledge hammer, they'll probably be willing to break a window too, if the door turns out to be made out of metal.
@@Dougie- lots of metal doors in new apartment buildings here in Sweden, they are very good for both sound and fire proofing.
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.
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
House in Poland here. Our outside door has 2 key lockers (using the same key), 4 locking pinions at the opening side (top, 2x middle, bottom), 3 locking pinions at the hinges side (top, middle, bottom) and 3 hinges. Has a handle inside but no handle outside, you need keys to open it from the outside for safety. The keys are also not standard but something more like what you would see on a car
A basic door in Sweden is made of wood, about 65mm thick, opens outward for safety (easier to evacuate and very hard to kick in). There's safety pins and hinges so it can't be lifted of the hinges when it's closed. And then the sky (wallet) is the limit from there.
Most new apartment buildings has metal reinforced, fire resistant and sound proofed doors as standard.
Yep. Same thing in Norway.
That's interesting. How does the door deal with water when it gets wet on top? Or are roofs above entrances just a standard thing for swedish houses?
@@Tschacki_Quacki yes, most doors goes out to a small porch, or it has a small entrance roof
@@Tschacki_Quacki The roof is extended over the door/walls. Isn't that normal for most houses everywhere? Or it got a porch. Up here we also build roofs that can handle heavy snowfall so they're usually slanted and often steep so the snow automatically slides off.
Anyway, easy exit in case of emergency over a rotten door every 2nd decade or so :-D
@@Tschacki_Quacki Doors in Sweden also generally open outwards. Even for apartments. So that Florida thing with mould building up right away when condensation or dragged in water is left in the cracks is less of an issue even if there is no covered entrance. The problem is that when the door opens inwards, the sealing and the contact surfaces it touches is instead more exposed. Making it sensitive to environmental and physical damages.
Sweden may not have the exact same challenges as Florida. But still a fairly constantly varied and thus harsh climate for any constructs. So not really as different as one may assume.
In Portugal, most exterior door knobs are just for pulling/pushing, i.e. they have no function in the locking/unlocking of the door. (The door is locked or unlocked exclusively by the key.)
Because they do not participate in the unlocking of the door, they do not need to be a lever, they can be a (static) knob.
But, when they must rotate to actually open the door (which mostly happens in back doors to gardens and such) they usually are lever-shaped and not knob-shaped.
Rotating (i.e. "active") knob-shaped door handles have very poor usability, namely for people with disabilities and the elderly.
The thing that always concerns me about American doors is the wooden frame holding a screw in metal plate that looks frankly quite easy to kick in.
In my EU apartment even though the room doors are of similar thickness and strength the frame is solid sheet metal.
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....
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.
In Norway, it is mandatory to have fireproof exit doors. There is also an order stating that they must always be opened outwards.
Also the front door opens outwards? In the Netherlands the front door opens inwards, back doors open outwards. But for emergency escape purposes I see the point.
4:02 That was a dangerous sentence.😂
I wasn't really waiting for a description. Or should I say "really wasn't"?
I was going to say we don’t need to see his knob, that’s surely a “wife’s eyes only” situation 😂😂😂😂
I nearly spat my brew out, It went straight to advert after he said knob.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.😂
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.
Our front doors here in New Zealand are basically the same as the U.S.
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😂
"My knob has a different exterior size" 😂 did make me chuckle
and we have extra protection that has 2-3 deac bolts on frame to prevent door to lift up
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.
Upvc on the UK I've seen police with battering rams take ages to enter one.
Police tried a battering ram to get into my neighbours house. They gave up and smashed the kitchen window climbing in over the kitchen sink instead.
Sturdier doors will help with sound deadening too. Pasively.
If it's a colder climate you might see 2 doors. A stronger thicker one - a really small corridor, like just to leave a pair of outdoor slippers - and a basic second door that you only close, without locking. Helps to keep the colder air outside.
I myself have a apartment door like this one from Croatia. It costed me just above 12000€. Cheers from Germany
If you're amazed by that European door, you will faint if you see my Spanish front door, metal inner frame with wood exterior, 12 bolts in each vertical sides and 6 in the bottom and the top, and it's a common door type in a safe neighborhood.
so funny to watch the reaction XD for the most part they are standart in any building since the 90's if im not wrong . but even older doors without a metal frame still had the vertical bolts . fire resistance doors are becoming a common place
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.
If you install a door this heavy at an American house, the entire house will collapse if you slam the door shut too hard.
Nordic door usually opens outwards. And are usually 60-90 mm thick often with small glass windows. You can get them with dual gaskets/ weather seals, for extreme climate . Newer locking mechanism also has hooked locking bolt that grips into the frame. It makes it harder to pry the door open.
Living in Switzerland I am always joking about your doors. Not only do they no isolation, that door in the video can be kicked out easy. My bedroom doors are better than yours at the entrance… 🙈
What really amazed me is that you have exterior doors opening inwards. I have never seen that here in Sweden except for store doors and apartment buildings. If you want to prevent water ingress and to keep the cold weather out, you have to have a foot that opens outwards, and that has proper sealings.
As a manner of fact, here in Austria (not to speak for whole Europe) burglars don't try to break the door open on single homes anymore (well, dumb burglars maybe🤪), but force their entry through windows.
Acid attacks on locks is becoming a thing.
Or balcony doors
@@herrkulor3771 Damn drugging the locks? Jeez criminals these days...
@@levigeldleen the only advice I have seen is to use two locks. To make it more time consuming, to make them choose a neighbor instead.
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!
and just remind ourselves that these are STANDARD.
In Sweden front doors and patio doors in general open outwards as well as being sturdy. New apartment doors are also fire/smoke proof to create different cells and avoid fire spreading through the buildings.
I'm from Spain and I tell you... Don't want to disrespect your front door, seems lovely... But my bedroom door is thicker than that thing 😅 and my front door... Well... Let's just say that you ain't going through without permission. As you said: "vault door" 😂😂
*holds up cutting torch*. You’re sure about that? There is always a way. 😂 Not without metal cutting tools: I give you that
I live in a german house from the late 70s. My front door is made of massive wood construction about 8 inches strong. It sits in a massive steel frame locked on sevaral points all around in 1.5 foot brick walls.
It's on the strong side of doors, i admit, yet nothing really special.
Sledge hammer, axe, chainsaw... . ..good luck! 🤣
12:46 good luck to SWAT 😂
In Portugal I see those doors everywhere as standard in apartments and houses from the last 30 years, except they dont have the exterior handle, you rotate the key and unlock the door and just push it. Your exterior doors look like my bedroom door!
USA have guns, Europe have doors 😂
And windows you can't smash with your elbow.
@@benjaminloehner257 And walls you can't punch through.
us have doors, europeans have hodoors...
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.
In Sweden the locks turn the other way around. The plunger follows the direction of the low side of the key. On mainland Europe it goes the same as the top of the key. Very confusing in the beginning.
What? Never seen that in my 47 years and probably hundreds of doors locked all over Sweden.
@@grymkaftexactly the same for all locks I know in Helsingborg
Are you by any chance talking about bathroom door locks?
The European door is a really heavy high security door, and because these are often used in apartments, they have a very high fire rating.
My front door has a UPVC frame reinforced with square steel tubes inside, with a foam core panel cladded with aluminium on both sides. It's not as secure as the door in the video, but still has a normal bolt which opens with a lever from the inside only, a dead bolt above the normal bolt and dead bolts at the top and bottom. So it meets the standards for security as set by insurances.
On the patio side of the house I have French doors with tripple glazed windows in them and a fixed window above the doors. Secure hinges and locks are used. The whole assembly weighs 450kg or 1000lbs and it was an absolute unit to install.
Pretty average door in my country, the Czech republic (Prague)....
I would not fall asleep in the US...
To be honest, I've never seen front doors here (also Europe) with such an over-dimensioned locking mechanism as the Croatian example. But front doors here are usually thick and insulated and fireproof for a minimum amount of time. The idea is that the fire brigade will have plenty of time to extinguish a fire outside of your flat/apartment, before it will break through the front door and spread into your home.
Hi from Czechia. You can buy a wide variety of doors. From basically paper made to high security doors. In 90% Outside doors dont have handle but just a knob and 2 position locking. For example doors in my flat have metal frame and when you lock them they lock on all 4 sides. But this is not usual.
I just went to measure the thickness of our door and it is 1,9 inches (yes my ruler also shows inches). You can stick in the key, even if someone put a key in from the other side. We have a knob on the outside of the door, which can't be turned at all, we have just a keyhole beneath it and after turning the key two or three times, the door is open What shocked me most with your door is the sounding of the wood when you knock against it. it someone badly wants to go inside, how long would it stand against a bit of pressure coming from the outside? If you try this at my door you gonna break your shoulder. Cheers from Austria, where security doors are pretty standard for doors since at least 2000.
Thats because you need a gun at home in the us...everybody can just came in your house with these thin doors😂
If a burglar in America finds himself in front of a European security door in a wooden house, he will either break the glass of a window or break through the wall of the house. That is easier. 🧐
Europe vs The greatest country in the world. I rest my case.
Europe is a continent not a country.
No shit!
@@krasimirkirev7178 Thank you for your sarcasm. Sorry to have offended.
Comparison has most of the time been between Europe vs USA, although it is Croatia specifically in this video. I don't know where you are from, but doors in most European countries are like that. So, Croatia is a good representative of what doors are like in Europe. So, it is fair to say ''Europe vs The greatest country in the world. And this is where I have been sarcastic. FYI I live in Europe and I consider myself vey well educated, especially at geography. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!.
@@krasimirkirev7178 I live in European The Netherlands. I have no idea what the non-European The Netherlands uses for its front doors. I understood what you meant, after you posted your first comment. That is why I said thank you, and apologized for offending. No offence meant, and none taken.
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 think that european door would be classified as a ”security door” and in most places in europe is not standard but a $1000 upgrade (at least in sweden). But standard european doors are still hefty and solid, and much more focused on a secure and sturdy frame. What was not shown in video of european door was the security features around the deadbolts when closed, no access to the bolts and you cant get a crowbar in.
It seems I have an American door in my European apartment, it leads to the toilet though.
I have a justification for the American door, is it better to break through the door than the "wall" of the cardboard house
Our lock is so good we can not even enter the house anymore ;)
Why did you leave?
@@BmanNL1 I did not leave, i am still busy inputting the twenty thousand numbers resetcode.
When I was buying my security doors (EU), I chose the most basic model they had because I thought firefighters and the emergency service would not be able to get inside in time.... well I didn't read the brochure thoroughly enough. Long story short they will either come with SWAT team and blow them up with explosives or go through window. It will take them at minimum an hour to cut through all those locking bolts and steel bars in them. There is a sticker with phone number of 24/7 service provided by my door manufacturer... they can open my door with universal key IF they are just closed, not locked (then the cant do shit). I also gave spare key to my mom, she lives nearby and my neighbors have her phone number. I wonder how much ridiculous were those more advanced models they were offering :D
Came back from the kitchen to "My knob is a little bit different I'll show you.." and was severely confused for a moment..
Well the Croatian door are beefy ones for sure! I'm from Czech republic and I have very standard 'plastic' door but they are metal with plastic decorative paneling and five point lock that actually latches in symmetrical distances on the whole length of the door into the metal frame. They don't have a functional handle on the outside - you use the key to unlock and open the door and on the inside the key is built into the door as a little knob with a standard handle that you can push down. All my interior doors are solid wood with metal frames and I live in a small village on the country side with population around 200ppl :D
Thats not a normal European frontdoor, at least I have not seen one like this here in Germany.
Sure, our doors are thicker, more robust and the locking systems are better that the US doors, but not as heavy duty as the second door shown.
The modern front doors recommend in Germany do have deadbolts in at least three different places on the door and are pretty force and fire resistant.
When I was a kid I wondered how in the movies people could kick or tackle an entrance door to open it. Mine is metal, with a metal frame encased in the concrete wall. Those American doors are used for the interior where I live
13:38 that is in no way a standard European door, it’s more like a high-security door
In Germany it‘s more like a modern standard one family home front door. Doors to apartments are usually not quite as secure because you have a common front door already.
And pretty much no front door has a moveable handle.
Agreed, I have never seen doors like that anywhere in Europe
I'd say all new doors are like this. What's the point buying a door that can be broken with a kick?
In apartment buildings in Croatia is standard for as long as that kind of front doors exist. In private houses maybe not so much.
I had to check my front door. I live in an apartment building built in 2013.
And yes, my door is also all metal with wooden plates on it for decoration. They're called fire doors. To prevent and/slow down the spread of a fire.
Mine only has one deadbolt, but it's thick and square.
I live in Norway btw.
The inside doors in my apartment seems to be the same thickness as your front door.
That's kinda crazy to see the difference.
And my windows are 3 pane. They block out almost all sounds from the outside.
by the way not all European front doors are as extreme as the one in the video doors like that are usually found in Hotels or apartment buildings for rich people as far as I know
In Italy it's quite common to have a door like that in every apartment
Extreme? This is pretty much bog standard, you can go much more fancy and extreme if you want to and have the money.
Europe (Spain) here. I must say in my country full metal doors are not the usual ones. The most common option (because it's cheaper) is "safe intended" doors: made mainly of wood, with some layers of metals inside. Frame wooden also (consider here are not so common the doors placed outside the house). Those cost from 300 to 400 $.
The most expensive "safety" doors (1000+ $) are frame and door metal. Focused on avoiding the usual "modus operandi" from burglars: forcing the knob, smashing door or breaking from a side of the frame.
Also, two main difference between any door here:
We don't usually have rotating knobs in the outside. Instead, there´s a fixed-not moving knob in the middle of the door, just to help you pushing or pulling the door when opening or closing it.
As an option to increase safety in a cheap way: we add a bolt (or more) with its own key, so you can lock it when you leave your home.
That door is not standard. For sure.
Yeah, someone invested a ton there.
I can assure you, it is.
Pretty much all doors are heavy duty in whole Europe.
It is your first line of defence of your castle. Why would you want a wooden door protecting your family and goods?
i new buildings it is normal here in Croatia
Surprisingly for you that type of door it is very common in Europe… of course there’s always something better and more costly but the door shown was not it.
Problem is that the entirety of our buildings is so much sturdier than American ones, due to the extensive use of bricks and other building materials that are so much durable and safe
@walkir2662 All newly built apartments usually come with this sort of doors, I can tell you that this one is nothing special.
There are really wild options, though, like 3-4 locks witch one of them can cost €2-3k, 10-20cm(4-8") thickness, titanium frame wiyh hardened steel inside, and upwards of 20 titanium deadbolts, everything depends on your deepness of pockets and paranoia ratio, possibilities are endless.