Armor Concepts SET-EZA-22000 Entry Door, Aged Bronze

Easy to install! Great quality! And I feel so much safer

This item was bent from delivery people, which was easily enough fixed by hand, but the package was also missing the hinge protectors... Long story short the manufacture will only offer refund if I return the package. This is ridiculous, just send the missing parts, there's nothing wrong with the item. This world is full of waste and they should be ashamed of insisting on this behaviour.

The hardware is high quality and I appreciate the color options. I also included a photo of the original screws versus door armor screws to show you why something like Door Armor is necessary if you care about security. It took about 30 minutes to install, which would have been quicker EXCEPT the star drive drill bit for the includes screws actually stripped, which also caused one of the screws to strip and bend. 5 stars besides that issue, it helps if you have your own tools on hand in case the included drill bit fails.

I am not going to try and kick my door in after installing this.......however I have no doubt it would be seriously more difficult after installation than before. It is not quite as intuitive as I first imagined (their way of going about this is better - duh, than I would gone about the engineering.) You don't need many tools but you do need the RIGHT tools. If you are going thru pine jams and pine framing wood then what they provide will more than likely work. They provide a T20 Torx bit that will probably hold up in pine. You need to provide a 9/64" drill bit and that bit needs to be able to drill a hole for a 3" screw (if memory serves). If you are dealing with hardwood framing or maybe yellow pine then their bit is not going to hold up, you will need at least one and probably 2 T20's. And you most certainly won't be driving that long a screw in by hand (easily at best). There can be a clearance issue on the latch side which they suggest can be improved by running the screws on that side tighter which will indeed help. However, I inadvertently found that tightening the screws on the hinge side picked me up even more space by pulling the door over that I now no longer had any clearance issues. Another aspect of this that I found beneficial is that once installed no one on the outside knows it is there! I decided to write this because I am on here getting ready to buy another unit.

Unfortunately my door gap was super tight so I had to shave down the frame. Bought a $10 chisel set and got to work. Instructions do tell you what size gap you need to have in order for it to work. Besides that everything fit perfectly and was very high quality. Used a impact drill and tightened the screws provided and had no problem with stripping or snapping any. Also worked perfectly with my electronic dead bolt.