Securing Your Home with Double Glazed Windows and Doors

Burglars often target homes by forcing open windows or doors or breaking the glass. Ensuring robust security for your windows and doors is essential and cost-effective. Inspect all ground floor double glazed windows and double glazed doors, ensuring hinges and locks are secure and frames are free from rot or rust. Adding locks to skylights or fanlights is also advisable. Visible window locks from the outside can deter thieves, as breaking glass is noisy and challenging.

Many people neglect precautionary measures despite their importance. While no gadget replaces common sense, our customers can benefit from technological advancements that provide comfort and confidence in the quality and design of our energy efficient windows' locks and security mechanisms.

Clients accustomed to aluminium windows often find the locking mechanisms inadequate. Aluminium windows usually feature locking handles that meet insurance standards but do not offer strong security, as the handle locks, not the window. Basic handles may break under pressure or loosen from the frame. Wooden casements require locks that secure the window to the frame, but casement locks are often screwed to the window, making them weaker.

Our clients receive multi locks, double locking handles, and hinge side security devices where appropriate. Our tamper-proof, anti-bump, and drill-resistant hardware items are highly effective and difficult to breach. For additional security, we offer special security systems for our double glazed windows and doors at an extra cost. Specify your security needs when requesting a quote.

There are two main locking systems:

• Espagnolette or multi-point locking: Bolts (typically 3 sets) are embedded in the window and lock into points in the frame when the handle is turned. The mushroom-headed bolts engage behind the locking point, preventing the window from being forced apart from the frame.

• Deadlock shoot bolts: These bolts secure the opening side corners of the window into the frame. A deadlock also secures the opening side of the window at the handle. High-security friction hinges can be fitted to the frame on the hinge side.

For added strength, sections of hardened aluminium or galvanised steel reinforcements are fitted within the hollow profiles of the frames, allowing the locking systems to be secured through the upvc double glazed windows into the reinforcements. Internal beading prevents glass removal from the outside.

Double glazed windows are challenging to break, and if broken, they create a lot of noise. Our window units come with multi-point locks, double-locking handles, and hinge-side security devices. Upvc windows are difficult to force open from the outside due to their tight seal around the glass and resistance to shrinking, unlike wooden frames.

We provide custom-made windows and doors that cater to our clients' lifestyles and exceed expectations. Your security is our priority, which is why we have developed advanced window and door locking mechanisms to guard against intruders. Manufactured in Sydney, our products maintain the highest security standards.

Every effort ensures your new windows and doors keep your home secure and intruders out. Contact us to discover how our double glazed windows and doors can enhance your home security.