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0 pointsdboreham2y ago0 comments

In US homes the garage is often a way to access the house with minimal security between the two.

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That’s not true, the garage typically has a full outdoor door with standard security (dead bolts, wired into the security system) the same as any other door as the interface door between the garage and the house. This is a code thing for a variety of reasons but primarily because the outdoor door is weatherized and provides a barrier against CO, but also for the precise reason that the garage door is not considered secure. The protocols for opening the door wirelessly are known insecure and municipalities have required outdoor doors at the interface due to the number of home invasions and burglaries through the garage.

rurp2y ago

At least in my experience people are a lot more likely to leave the garage door unlocked than the front door, either intentionally or unintentionally.

abustamam2y ago

Agreed. Our garages have always had three entries: one from the house, one via garage door, and a side door. Side door was always locked, garage door always closed (never locked though), and the door between house and garage not only almost never locked, but often flat out open because that's where we put the litter box.

leeoniya2y ago

haha, our litter box is there as well. vinyl floors in mudroom are easiest to clean.

phil212y ago

It's functionally true. Thinking off the top of my head I can come up with at least a dozen examples growing up of friends w/ these doors. Not a single one was ever locked. Most of the time w/ school-age kids they would be left purposefully unlocked so the kids could let themselves in after school w/ the garage door PIN code.

I honestly can't think of a single person I know who routinely locks those doors.

sib2y ago

I've lived in many houses in the US (eight, some new, some older, in five states) and only one had a deadbolt on the door from the garage to the house interior. All have had normal locks and were exterior-door-quality. So, definitely not a universal truth.

leeoniya2y ago

i also keep expensive things in the garage: onewheel, a couple good bikes, a lot of nice tools. i assume this is true for quite a few homeowners.

Humdeee2y ago

Not to mention... a car, as there's a car theft crisis nearly everywhere in the past 2-3 years. I consider the garage just another room in my home. I consider entering my garage akin to entering my house

BobaFloutist2y ago

Sometimes garages even have cars in them!

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fnordpiglet2y ago

rurp2y ago

At least in my experience people are a lot more likely to leave the garage door unlocked than the front door, either intentionally or unintentionally.

abustamam2y ago

leeoniya2y ago

haha, our litter box is there as well. vinyl floors in mudroom are easiest to clean.

phil212y ago

I honestly can't think of a single person I know who routinely locks those doors.

sib2y ago

leeoniya2y ago

i also keep expensive things in the garage: onewheel, a couple good bikes, a lot of nice tools. i assume this is true for quite a few homeowners.

Humdeee2y ago

BobaFloutist2y ago

Sometimes garages even have cars in them!

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