Door Bar - The Best Home Invasion Protection for Your Home - Safe Room

very happy does the job and solid too

I have just received my new Doorricade. It was delivered on time which is always appreciated. I have not had an opportunity to install it as of yet but my preliminary assessment is very positive. For example, the actual bar, the Doorricade itself, is made of high grade solid aluminum. Strong but light. Also, the package includes both 3" and 1.5" screws. If you have enough wood in your door frame the 3" screws that will provide additional strength. If however you don't, the 1.5" screws will be more than adequate. Finally, Doorricade even gives you a wood drill bit to pre-drill the screw holes, a nice touch. All in all I am quite impressed with the product and give it 5 stars out of 5.

I recently replaced my old compressed-wood, funky door barricade with this sleek, seamless aluminum security bar, and I couldn’t be happier. I paid a total of $102.66, including taxes. I bought this for a 32" wide garage security entrance door, and it comes with a 38" bar that fits the entire interior trim. The premium aluminum bar is sturdy, and the heavy-duty stainless-steel brackets are flush against the frame for a clean look. It includes both 1½″ and 3″ screws; I used two of each, outer screws long and inner screws shorter. Solid enough to withstand serious force, IMHO. The installation was quick and easy. It took me under 15 minutes with the clear instructions and labeled handles; it was very easy to assemble. Functionality-wise, the bar easily slides into place and can be adjusted with one hand because of the rubberized grips. The bar weighs in at just under 2 lbs, light enough to handle easily and remove for normal use, with no fumbling or tools needed. A minor issue is that the slot-in bracket has limited movement, which can cause scratches on the bar's finish from metal-on-metal contact if it is moved after being installed. It doesn't impact strength, but I would have appreciated a thicker tolerance or a protective insert to avoid wear over time. This is more than just a decoration; an intruder might break your deadbolt, but this barrier is hidden until needed and nearly impossible to breach without heavy machinery. For me, it’s worth every cent for the combination of style, strength, and simplicity!

Product arrived at courier depot with packaging and product completely destroyed. Poorly packaged by sender and product clearly not great as bar was bent also.

What more could a girl ask for, when her ex-husband has broken his restraining order about 20 times and has access to a shotgun? Besides my own gun, a solid wood door, and a good deadbolt as my first line of defense, not much more than a Doorricade! The bar is solid, premium military grade aluminum and when you pick it up, you can tell it's NOT going to fold unless you come at it with a battering ram like in the video, or a wrecking ball, or a C-4 charge, or try to crash your truck through it. The brackets would of course be the so-called weak points of this whole setup, but they are not weak. At. All. Really, really thick stainless steel, each with four screw holes. The kit comes with 3" screws. If you need 1-1/2" screws, you get those too. Nine of each. Goooood LUCK trying to bust these brackets out of the doorframe. It fits great, and it's easy to install. The instructions are simple and easy to follow. Now let's talk security. Nobody is getting past this barricade unless they have a significant amount of force to destroy the brackets, which is not going to be easy AT ALL. Even if they do have that kind of power, the intruder has to KNOW the Dooricade is there in the first place to go after the brackets. (Don't use the sticker that comes in the kit to advertise.) Let's say they blow out your deadbolt and your door handle, or blow a hole through your door and try to reach through to undo the locks. The locks are either gone now or the intruder turned them to get in. Okay. But they don't know you have a Doorricade installed a foot or two either above or below the knob and deadbolt. What now? They thought the lock and deadbolt were the only obstacles. So they don't understand why the door's not pushing in. Unless the hole they blew into your door is huge, they're not even going to SEE the Doorricade in the way. They'd have to be able to stick their head through a big enough hole to see what's going on. Chances are they only made a big enough hole to reach a hand through, because they thought that's as big as they needed to get inside. Now let's say they do see the Doorricade. And try to remove it. Can they reach it where you installed it, first of all? Second, do they know about the security clips that keep the bar from being lifted up? Let's assume they do know about the clips, and everything is within arm's reach. Great. They can open the clip on ONE side, but now they have to blast ANOTHER hole through the OTHER side of the door to undo THAT clip. At this point the police are well on their way, if not at your doorstep already. Bottom line: the Doorricade is INCREDIBLY difficult to break through, and it's a line of defense that an invader wouldn't even know or assume is there to begin with. The element of surprise works in your favor here. Even if they have a serious amount of force to use, the time it would take them to figure it all out, and blow through both sides of this thing -- by then, you already got your loved ones and pets to a safe place inside the home, grabbed your gun, and the police are most likely there already. I love my Doorricade and I feel so much safer with it. This is an absolutely great product! If you take your security seriously at all, you need to have at least one of these. Two thumbs way up.