Your door isthe first line.Make it the last.

Marcus Delgado called us at 11 PM on a Tuesday. Someone had tried to force his front door — the frame had split along the hinge line, the deadbolt plate had torn clean out of the wood, and the door was being held shut by a dining chair propped under the knob. He'd been living on a corner lot for six years. He wasn't sleeping anymore.

We installed a 16-gauge steel door with a three-point locking system and a reinforced steel frame with Grade 3 security hinges. Install time: 7 hours. Marcus's insurance premium dropped $340 the following renewal.

Meridian Property Group manages 34 rental units across eight buildings in Hartford. After a tenant was robbed in her first-floor unit — and sued the management company for negligence — their risk counsel recommended a full entry-point audit. Every door in the portfolio was hollow-core with builder-grade hardware. The audit took two hours. The exposure was significant.

We phased the retrofit over six weekends — tenants stayed in place the entire time. All 34 primary entry doors replaced with steel-core units and upgraded deadbolts. Meridian's carrier reduced their general liability premium by 18%. The lawsuit was settled with the door upgrade cited as evidence of remediation.