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One thing that I'm pondering about ...


If you're really bothered about that, once everything is mounted up
and the doors fit etc, drill an extra hole through the hinge-pin plate
and put a coach bolt right through to the inside of the building.

It's a bit overkill for ledged and braced timber doors anyway (unless
they're massively constructed), as they don't have the structure to
hold back even a moderately serious go at a forced entry.


I would use coach bolts on any hinge that you can get to the screws even if
the door is flimsy.
Breaking a door makes a noise, unscrewing hinges doesn't.
It the reason why fences are more of a deterrent than brick walls, you can
climb a wall in silence, you cant do that with a fence.