How do you secure your screen door?
 

Hello all. I will be closing on my new Patio Villa this coming week, and I know there is a sliding screen door leading to the patio. How do you secure that?

doesn't it have a sliding glass door as well?

With a paperclip, anything stronger and they will destroy the screen.

Ours has a lock built in, maybe yours does too. If not a broom handle in track works.

I do mean the glass screen door :)
In PA I used to secure it using a pole inserted into the track.

I think you are asking about the slider, in any case, there should be a lock built in, but there are supplemental locks that are available at most of the hardware stores. You will need an electric drill and the correct size bits. Also, from first hand experience, be very careful drilling the holes, in our case the tempered glass was very close to the hole location, and for my own comfort level I shortened the screws about 1/16 inch to make sure these would not hit the glass.

I have these on my sliders...

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Go to Lowe's or Home Depot, buy a dowel rod of 3/4" or 1 inch and cut to length to fill the glass door track. The dowel will make it impossible to open. At either store they will cut it for you at no charge.

Pro trip: Place a 12" tape around the dowel once, use the excess (stuck to itself) to form a table tape. This will make it easier to remove.

I agree the wooden dowel in the track is the easiest

I put a hook into one end of the dowel so that it would be easier to pick up

The other good news....there's very little crime in TV

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The dowel idea can be useful but depends on the door. With the double sliders I have the track is outside where using the dowels would lock me in rather than locking anyone out.

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We do, too. No one can lift up or lift out from the top with this lock. We bought it a few years ago from, I think one of the vendors on Market Night.

Of course, they can just break the glass, but that’s pretty noisy and we have good neighbors. Of course, many of them are deaf.

I do not understand the inquiry. What worked in PA will work in Florida.

Far as security, we those potentially getting broken into and robbed think a criminal, is concerned about damaging your paint, the tile etc. They are CRIMINALS, in a criminal act. They want a quick in and out and do not care that you spent hours picking out just the right shade of paint.

I think the police will give you a free security review. Seeing your home as a criminal does. Lighting-plants may need to be cut back and or removed.

Not necessarily...

In some homes, there are three windows that move and they stack on the outside. A pole will lock YOU in, not keep others out...

Mine has a complex but it’s not insecure

We have a dowel allows the slider to be left open by around 8 inches - which is enough for our cat to squeeze through and relax on the lanai but not enough for someone to actually get through. On nice days we do that during the day when we know we'll be in and out throughout the day.

The outside door to the lanai also locks, and we have real actual windows for our lanai, not just screens.

The slider into the house also has its own built-in lock for when we want to actually close it.

Several way to lock it

Google brings up several options if don’t want cut broom stick to length.

Use the same thing here! I use a small diameter white pvc pipe that fits in the track grove. Matches the sliding door.

I too am from PA (Langhorne). Great minds think alike????

I doubt seriously that there are any double or triple track sliders in a PATIO VILLA.
:ohdear::ohdear:

I put a metal shower rod in one of my sliders in my CYV.
:ho::ho:

Where did you buy it? I’m looking to buy one like it.

Hence my "in some homes" caveat...

Screen door
 

If in fact your talking about the screen door, it’s useless to secure. A simple knife would cut the screen, allowing access.
We had a security expert address our neighborhood social. One question was for a show of hands for who locked their screen door. Then he asked, why would you do that?

it's either or...
 

it is either a screen door or a glass door. fairly certain they do not make a sliding door like a storm door.

The OP corrected themself. They meant a sliding GLASS door...

Doesn’t drilling into the door negate your warranty? I am under the impression that it does.

My home is a re-sale. Sooo...

Wow! That must be one big cat squeezing through an 8 inch opening. Sounds like it would discourage intruders without need for a lock.

Is there a little push lever on the side of the door hinge on the inside?


Just asking; What do you think you would gain from locking a screen door? If a bad person wanted in, would that stop them?

Guessing this is the door from outside leading into the patio. Once in, you (should) have a glass door leading into the house. That would be the one to lock. This, if broken, will at least make noise.

Personally we don't leave/have anything of great value on our patio. Patio chairs, lamps, book or two, table, and odd stuff. If a bad person really needs that stuff, we will have safety in numbers!!