Fortify master bedroom door?

[HTRN]

and dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark they shoot bees at you.

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[Kommander]

Got some mission creep going on. This started by looking to slow down a potentially hostile burglar.

And in grand Gun Counter tradition has moved on to preventing an infantry company from successfully assaulting your house. I do have to wonder what the consequences are going to be when a SWAT team eventually hits the wrong house and entire stacks get wiped out before they even breach a door. Do they even train for this kind of thing?

[308Mike]

Just make sure you also fortify the areas around the door so they can't just walk through with a simple boot-kick through the wall to create an opening.

[Netpackrat]

The place for heavier stuff, I think, is in large cast concrete "planters" around the outside walls, just about far enough from the actual wall to squeeze in a paint roller as needed, and 1'-3' thick by 3'-4' high, or to the bottom of window sills, as they run along.

That they give you a place to plant roses, raspberries, cactus, or kitchen herbs, with 2' or so of gravel fill at the bottom, while preventing pretty much anything smaller than an Abrams tank from crashing through the outside walls is mere coincidence. Pre-molding faux loopholes on the planters, painting them midnight black, and inserting short pieces of black pipe pointing outward such that they cure emplaced is artistic license.

I've had that thought before, too. If I were going to be staying in this house for another decade or two, I would be all over that. There's already flowerbeds located there, so I wouldn't even have to re-do my walkway.

[Yogimus]

Get dual paned windows, about 1 inch thick. Place an easy break panel of glass on the outside, one that shatters into nice big chunks, and then a reinforced glass as the inside pane of all your windows. Fill the space in between with something highly toxic, preferably from the chlorine family.

[Kommander]

And here I thought grenade nets would be evil.

[blackeagle603]

Just make sure you also fortify the areas around the door so they can't just walk through with a simple boot-kick through the wall to create an opening.

plaster and lath has it's old school appeal.

[Netpackrat]

Get dual paned windows, about 1 inch thick. Place an easy break panel of glass on the outside, one that shatters into nice big chunks, and then a reinforced glass as the inside pane of all your windows. Fill the space in between with something highly toxic, preferably from the chlorine family.

In the house where my family lives, probably not.

[HTRN]

on the more cheap and practical side, a peephole is a good idea.

[BDK]

Get dual paned windows, about 1 inch thick. Place an easy break panel of glass on the outside, one that shatters into nice big chunks, and then a reinforced glass as the inside pane of all your windows. Fill the space in between with something highly toxic, preferably from the chlorine family.

Toxic enough to be a problem when that small amount is broken, and vented to the exterior, and you won't want to risk the chance of it leaking into your house - Cl gas is a handy corrosive, but that's about it.