Security expert Robert Siciliano installs a Door Devil reinforcement kit, a 4-foot steel plate secured with nine screws that covers the strike plate area. Standard door jambs are soft and vulnerable to kicks, but this kit significantly slows or stops forced entry attacks.
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This is a device, a Door Devil anti-kick home door security door jamb security kit that you'll see in a moment, designed to reinforce where your deadbolt and your knob lock are. It reinforces the jamb itself to prevent someone from kicking it in. As is, and I'll show you in a moment, there's really not much that prevents that from happening. And this device is a Door Devil at doordevil.com. It's real good design, well manufactured, and I'm real psyched to be putting one in today. Door reinforcement is becoming a hotter and hotter topic, and the products that represent the issue are getting better and better. As you can see in my door jamb, like everybody else's door jamb, there's less than an inch, probably less than 3/4 of an inch, between the inside of the strike plate and this molding. I mean, there's really nothing here to prevent the bad guy from just kicking in the door and just breaking all of this. And so what we're going to do today is reinforce this jamb so that it makes it that much more difficult for the bad guy to kick in the door. One thing that some security guys might tell you is to put long screws in here, right? And that will maybe prevent this thing from moving around. And those long screws are a good idea, but it might only take, you know, an extra few kicks to bust them screws and and break up this frame, this jamb, before they're able to get in. So this device right here, right, stands about 4 feet tall, right? And I'll show you in another view in a moment. And what this thing does is it goes over the actual strike plates, right, just like that. And then again, it's 4 feet long. And it has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 screws in it. And a bad guy is going to have a hard time kicking in the door with the Door Devil door reinforcement kit because it covers a lot of ground. It takes up, you know, a good 4 feet of the jamb, and it's going to take a whole heck of a lot of force to, um, for the bad guy to get in. This will definitely slow them down, if not prevent them from getting in. So I'll show you how this thing goes in just a second. So this is another look at the Door Devil door reinforcement kit. As you can see, it's a good 4 feet. This thing goes forever. And when you install that in the door jamb Again, it's going to do a pretty good job of preventing the bad guy from getting in. There's no such thing as 100% security, but this will definitely slow them down. Alright, there you go. There's where— doordevil.com. So the Door Devil kit also comes with screws, a pilot bit, drill bit for the screws, also a small bit —what is that, a square bit? I forget what they call those—for these screws right here. These screws are actually to beef up the hinges. So these, you get 2 screws per hinge. I have 3 hinges, and these are meant for the Door Devil door reinforcement plate itself. This bit is meant as a pilot to start so you don't crack the frame. Also has some stickers, some signage. This signage obviously is designed to let the bad guy know that you have extra security in place. This one is meant to go on the back of a window so that when it faces out that it reads properly. Left to right. So this is a real easy install. First thing you need to do is just center the strike plate on the jamb and then just start marking out your holes. Once you start marking out your holes, you just keep some general pressure on the door devil, reinforcement kit. And, um, once that's all done, just pull the Door Devil off and drill your pilot holes. I've got all mine marked out. So here is my first pilot hole. Just, uh, center that bit and drill. And I'll do that consecutively for the other 8 holes. So here are all my pilot holes for the Door Devil. And you know, just drilling those through, they went in really soft. I mean, they went really easy because the wood's really soft, which is a little disheartening. Uh, it's just pine or spruce. And, um, you know, which tells you just how easy it is to kick in a door. Okay, so right here is the finished product. This is the Door Devil fully installed. Alright, so this screws on the bottom and the middle of both and the top of both strikes. So my frame is reinforced. That is one additional layer of protection to prevent the bad guy from kicking in the door. That will at least slow him down, and in some cases completely prevent him from kicking in the door. Alright, there's a great layer of protection. Thank you, Door Devil. Doordevil.com.
